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Vall Lliach Embriux
750ml, $24.99
Priorat, Tarragona, Spain- This soft and rich Priorat is blended primarily with Garnacha and Cabernet Sauvignon. Smoky raspberry and blackcurrant fruit are rich on the palate and the finish is
surprisingly soft.
Earth is over 4.5 billion years old. The ground we walk on is ever-changing, always moving. Who can tell us that for certain? Geologists. Geology is a science that studies the materials, natural features, and processes found on earth. It also studies the history of all life that’s ever lived — from the time of the dinosaurs till date. Pretty incredible, right? The first Geologists Day was established by scientists in the former Soviet Union in April 1966.
LLICORELLA is the Catalan name for the type of soil in Priorat, which consists mainly of reddish-black slate with small particles of mica quartz, the different layers of soil being filled in by clayey soil. Slate is a fine-grained, lamellar, metamorphic rock derived from sedimentary rocks composed of clay and/or volcanic ash. That's right...chew on that for a while! Here is one of my favorite Priorats.
SILEX is a type of sedimentary soil that is rich with flint. In fact, silex is the English word for flint. Silex is closely associated with limestone soils -- they can exist in close proximity. But flint is generally a harder stone and can have an almost metallic look. Sancerre’s silex soils were created by millenia of erosion of limestone that left much of the harder flintstones behind. This means that in many “silex” vineyards you will also find some limestone and other rocks in the mix. Try this delicious product from Silex.
Dom Andre Vatan
Les Charmes Sancerre
750ml, $27.99
Dom Andre Vatan Les Charmes Sancerre is a high-quality, elegant wine that showcases the unique terroir of the Sancerre region. It is a great pairing for seafood, particularly oysters and shellfish, as well as lighter dishes such as salads and grilled vegetables.
Coonawarra, South Australia, is home of the renowned TERRA ROSSA, a 2 km wide and 25 km long cigar shaped strip of red, fertile soil. Terra Rossa soil is by far Coonawarra’s most famous aspect of its terroir, as it’s scarce throughout the world. The topography of Coonawarra is undoubtedly unusual. Unlike most quality wine regions, it has no rivers or valley slopes and is dead flat. A small cigar-shaped sliver of land, Coonawarra owes its uniqueness to a ridge of limestone covered with exceptionally fertile red soil that sits above an ancient reservoir of pure water.
Yalumba Y Shiraz/Viognier
750ml, $13.99
A medium-bodied wine with aromas of Turkish delight, white pepper and summer puddings followed by juicy berry flavors.
The KIMMERIDGE CLAY is a sedimentary deposit of fossiliferous marine clay which is of Late Jurassic to lowermost Cretaceous age and occurs in southern and eastern England and in the North Sea.[1] This rock formation is the major source rock for North Sea oil. The fossil fauna of the Kimmeridge Clay includes turtles, crocodiles, sauropods, plesiosaurs, plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, as well as a number of invertebrate species. This is also the soil responsible for one of my favorite wines. Crisp,
mineralistic Chablis.
