deVine Thoughts

Author: Dirk Chan
Our highly successful 2020 Bordeaux Futures Campaign will come to a close at midnight this coming Sunday, July 18. This is your last-call to order some 2020 Bordeaux from the so-called Covid vintage to have and open 10-20 years from now and say we lived through it.

For only the 2nd time ever, Bordeaux has had a trio of great years – 2018, 2019 and now 2020. The last and only other time this occurred was 1988, 89 and 1990.

How does Futures work you ask – well at its most basic level, you’re purchasing unfinished wine – you pay for it in full now, and in two years time, they arrive and you have some great Bordeaux to cellar for some time before enjoying the fruits of your patience. The wines when bottled will be 10-15% higher so you get a price break. Nowadays, you buy futures so you can get your hands on a bottle or two of something great and rare. Bordeaux being one of the great wines in the world – at the top end, demand far out strips availability and Futures may be the only way of ensuring you get your hands on some illustrious houses.

2020 appears to be a Right Bank vintage, so the Merlot dominant appellations of St. Emilion and Pomerol will be highly sought after while Margaux and Haut-Medoc’s with high percentage of Merlot are also popular.

The pricing appears to be an increase of a few percent to 15%, thus a little more expensive than the giveaway pricing from last year, but still quite a bit cheaper than 2018. However, given that yields were down in general 20%, we are receiving less quantity than normal.

As usual, items offered will be sold on a first-come first served basis and in some cases maximums applied. In many cases we won’t be able to go back for more of something once it sells out and if we do, price will be second tranche (release) pricing.

If you require assistance in choosing, please don’t hesitate to drop us an email or come into the store and we’d be happy to help.

Check out all available wines here..

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Our special this week is the 2019 Dubard Château Laulerie Viognier (Bergerac, France) – $17.27 (regularly $22.99)

There’s nothing really “little” or “lesser” about b>Petit Chablis, it is a Village designation that makes up around 18-20% of all wines made in Chablis, it is mostly spans the higher slopes or the beginning of the plateau in hard limestone or silty soils and of course, younger vines. The textures are light and full of verve, light straw in color with lovely minerality, green apples and gunflint – a great drink in the summer in your back yard.

The promotion this month includes a draw to win two bottles of Petit Chablis, a charcuterie board from The Butchery by RGE RD and to participate in a Zoom Virtual tasting with Barb Philip, MW and Gurvinder Bhatia, organizer of this event and Quench editor-in-chief on Thursday, August 26th. Enter in-store at deVines – no purchase necessary.

Try a couple of Petit Chablis this month:

2018 William Fevre Petit Chablis (Chablis, France) – $37.99

2019 Alain Geoffroy Petit Chablis (Chablis, France) – $28.99

More on Chablis here..

Happy Petit Chablis month everyone!!

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Our special this week is the 2018 Cellar Masroig Sola Fred Montsant – $14.25 (regularly $18.99)