After over 5 decades, the Sigels (#7) at Lemmon and Inwood in Dallas has lost their lease and will be closing at the end of April. Until then, everything in the store is discounted 20%.
Wines range from Chateau Mouton Rothschild to Opus One, and the sale also includes liquor, non-alcoholic products, glassware, bar supplies, cigars, cigarettes and beer.
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Wine Spectator’s Number 1 Wine in the Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of 2008…
#1 Casa Lapostolle Clos Apalta Colchagua Valley 2005Rated 96 points by Wine Spectator with an average retail of $75.
“Casa Lapostolle has been founded by the Marnier Lapostolle family from France and the Rabat family from Chile in 1994, through Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle, her husband Cyril de Bournet and Don José Rabat Gorchs. Today, Casa Lapostolle is 100% owned by the Marnier-Lapostolle group. Their objective is simple as it is ambitious: to create world-class wines using French expertise and the superb terroir of Chile. ”- from the Casa Lapostolle winery
Wine Spectator’s Number 2 Wine in the Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of 2008…
#2 Château Rauzan-Ségla Margaux 2005Rated 97 points by Wine Spectator with an average retail of $100.
” It is in the winter vineyards that the vintage is prepared: each plot is tended according to its grape variety, terroir, and earliness of ripening. Painstaking soil preparation, pruning to control each individual vine, green harvesting in summer to regulate yields, and leaf-removal to ensure that the fruit ripens evenly and healthily - these are the many precautionary measures vital for the quality of the wines produced .”- from the Château Rauzan-Ségla winery
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Wine Spectator’s Wines 3 and 4 in the Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of 2008 are:
#4 Château Guiraud Sauternes 2005Rated 97 points by Wine Spectator with an average retail of $57.
“ For the harvest to start the grape must have a minimum potential alcohol level of 20°c. Grapes sample are daily taken in diverse states of rot - roast berries, botrytised berries, semi roasted, fat botrytis, berries just starting to show signs of botrytis.”- from the Château Guiraud winery
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#3 Quinta do Crasto, Douro Reserva Old Vines 2005Rated 95 points by Wine Spectator with an average retail of $40.
“The first known references to Quinta do Crasto date back to 1615, and at the time of the Marquês de Pombal the quinta was included in the first “Feitoria” (which restricted port production to an area demarcated by granite markets), alongside the most important quintas in the Douro region. .”
- from the Quinta do Crasto winery
Wine Spectator‘s Wines 5 and 6 were announced today in the Wine Spectator countdown to the Top 100 Wines of 2008.
#6 Pio Cesare Barolo 2004Rated 94 points by Wine Spectator with an average retail of $62.
“Established in 1881 in Alba, Pio Cesare is widely known for their outstanding Barolo and Barbaresco wines.”
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#5 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe, Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau 2005Rated 95 points by Wine Spectator with an average retail of $55.
“Since the early 1980’s, Daniel and Frederic Brunier have been tending to the family concern, Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe, which today represents 173 acres of Chateuaneuf-du-Pape.” - from the Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe winery
Wine Spectator’s countdown to the Top 100 Wines of 2008 continues with today’s announcement of wines 7 and 8…
#8 Château de Beaucastel, Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2005Rated 96 points by Wine Spectator with an average retail of $95.
“We try to place the vine in its environment, that is to say in its relationship to the earth, to animal life and the stars, by which it is influenced.”
- From the Château de Beaucastel website
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#7 from the village of Pauillac in Bordeaux, the Château Pontet-Canet, 2005Rated 96 points by Wine Spectator with an average retail of $100.
“Jean-François de Pontet, royal governor of the Médoc, combined several vineyard plots in Pauillac in the early 18th century. Years later, his descendants added neighbouring vines in a place named Canet. This was the beginning of one of the largest estates in the Médoc, which quite naturally added the name of its founder to that of the land registry reference.”- From the Château Pontet-Canet website
Wine Spectator’s countdown to the Top 100 Wines of 2008 has begun with Wines Number 10 and 9 announced today. And they are…
#10 from Sonoma County, the Seghesio Zinfandel 2007. Rated 94 points by Wine Spectator with an average retail of $24.
“Founder Edoardo Seghesio planted his first grapevines in Alexander Valley in 1895. Since then, four generations of the Seghesio family have tended remarkable vineyards with the perspective gained from history, the humility of farming and the enduring passion to improve with each vintage.”
- From the Seghesio website
#9 Mollydooker 2007 Carnival of Love Shiraz, AustraliaRated 95 points by Wine Spectator with an average retail of $90.
“We blend special parcels of Shiraz to produce an amazingly beautiful wine with layers of rich, voluptuous fruit and the purity that comes from great McLaren Vale grapes. Our whole family is involved in making our wines, and all the wonderful people who drink them become our friends, so we named this wine Carnival of Love, because the wines bring us all together.” - From the Mollydooker website
Congratulations to both the Seghesio and Mollydooker wineries! The full Wine Specator Top 100 list will be available November 17. In the meantime, we will post the daily announcements of the winners as they become available. Salut!
Lawry’s Prime Rib in Dallas is hosting a Nouveau Beaujolais wine dinner on November 20 at 7pm.
The menu includes:
Duo of Brie Cheese
2008 Georges Duboeuf Nouveau Beaujolais
Coquilles Saint-Jaques
2008 Joseph Drouhin Nouveau Beaujolais
Seared Veal Loin Au Poivre
2008 Laboure Roi Nouveau Beaujoais
Sweet Cream and Pistachio Kunafa
2006 Louis Jadot Beaujolais-Villages
Reservations are required and can be made at 1-877-503-6688.
The Dallas Lawry’s location is located at 14655 Dallas Parkway (west side of the Tollway, north of the Dallas Galleria).
