Blog Post
Our wine list.
March 26th, 2010 by Jeff Segal
So, here’s our wine list for the weekend. See you soon.
Focused
These are Heart’s by the glass picks of the moment.
Sherry (for grandma)
The David Foster Wallace of the wine world. Brilliant but misunderstood.
La Cigarrera Manzanilla – $7 Like drinking the sea. But better.
Fernando de Castilla Fino – $7 Cate Blanchett elegance at a Jamie Lee Curtis price.
Gutierrez Colosia Elcano Fino – $7 More Spanish than the mullet.
El Maestro Sierra Fino – $10 Saltier than Evelyn Waugh.
El Maestro Sierra Amontillado – $13 Maldon, almonds, ham, smoke, butterscotch and sex.
Gutierrez Colosia Sangre y Trabajadero Oloroso – $9 Nuttier than Nick Nolte.
Bubbles
Serious fun.
2008 Isastegi Natural Cider - $5 Tastes like Kombucha, costs less, gets you drunk.
2008 Fremont Brut Cider Par Nature – $8 Smells like a horse farm, tastes like (funky) perfection.
German Gilabert Cava – $8 Champagne – Snobbery = Cava.
German Gilabert Rose Cava – $8 Champagne – Snobbery + Girliness = Rose Cava.
Fratelli Muratori Franciacorta Brut - $14 Sarkozy power, Bruni elegance.
2007 Donati Fortana Frizzante – $14 An alcoholic cranberry bomb in your mouth.
Aubry Champagne 1er Cru Brut – $18 Champagne that you want to bathe in.
White
From liquid minerals to unfuckingbelievable.
2008 Bregeon Muscadet Sur Lie – $7 Sharper than John Nash. Like licking lemon juice off a rock.
2008 Valli Unite Bianchino Cortese – $8 Made by a co-op in Piedmont. Ridiculously good for the price.
2008 Gerhard Rheingau Riesling Kabinett Trocken – $12 Ever been struck by lightning? Me neither, but drink this.
2008 Chateau de la Bonneliere Touraine – $8 Tastes like a war being fought with muskets on a citrus farm.
2008 Ostertag Vignoble d’Epfig Riesling – $11 Goat, black cod, charcuterie, cheese – this makes them all better.
2008 Gritsch Gruner Veltliner Axpoint Federspiel – $11 Wittgenstein’s Gruner. So much going on it hurts your brain.
2008 Broadside Edna Valley Wild Ferment Chardonnay – $10 A feral Chardonnay. Like a classic Chard with rabies.
2005 Campolargo Branco Arinto – $12 Like a sweaty Portuguese boxer that thinks he’s German.
2007 Domaine Marc Roy Marsannay – $14 What California Chardonnay wants to be when it grows up.
2006 Philippe Bornard Cotes du Jura Savagnin – $16 So cool it hurts. Hazelnuts, sea salt, beeswax and Meyer lemon.
Red
From Bota juice to gamey molasses.
2005 Tarantas Cabernet/Tempranillo Crianza – $6 The kind of wine you could drink from dusk ‘till dawn.
2007 Garrey Mercurey 1er Cru La Chassiere – $14 “This is a big fucking deal.”
2006 Rebourgeon-Mure Pommard – $16 Sex in a glass.
2004 Droandi Cepetto Chianti Classico – $12 The Chianti that wants to be a Pinot Noir so bad it cries at night.
2007 Scribe Carneros Pinot Noir – $14 Smoother than Keyser Soze.
2006 Luberri Biga Rioja – $9 Clinically proven to make you live longer and increase virility.
2005 Le P’tit Paysan Monterey County Meritage – $12 This wine has more game than Gavin. But it doesn’t know it. Yet.
2005 Bric Cenciurio Langhe Nebbiolo – $15 Yeah, roses really smell like boo boo boo.
2006 de Trafford Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon – $16 Where to find Bordeaux structure and Napa fruit? South Africa.
2006 Gros Nore Bandol – $16 The man that makes this wine is a hunter and you can taste it in every drop.
Sweet and others
Great ways to start, finish or make a meal.
2008 Wilfrid Rousse Chinon Rose de Saignee – $8 A serious as shit rose. Call it blush and get smacked. Oh, and it’s DRY.
Favaios Moscatel – $6 My body tastes like butterscotch, when you lick that spot.
HM Borges 5-year Madeira – $9 Can kick the shit out of $100 ports with its eyes closed.
Chikurin Junmai Ginjo Sake - $15 The best sake we’ve ever had.
Langlois Cassis – $15 Yo Kanye, I’ma let you finish, but this is one of the best Cassises of all time.
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