Reviewing 3 Wines You Can't End August Without

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1:15Hey everybody and welcome to, this is the August one, right? We're a little late on this one. August. August Club. Wine of the Month Club. Pretty excited about this. Have three wonderful wines here as I'm sure you all know. And let's just get right into it. Matty, what do we got here with the bubbles? Started off private property, rather. Santa Lucia Highlands 2022 Brute Sparkling Rosé Wine. Now, this is 58 % Chardonnay, 42 % Pinot Noir, giving it that beautiful rosé color. This is traditional method. So this wine is going to have a little bit of that champagne yeastiness to it. It is classic style.

1:49You know, the fermentation is done in the bottle. 93 points wine enthusiast here. Bright, fresh, elegant sort of style. Yeah, really, if any OGs here from my Wine Library TV days know sparkling is my favorite category of wine. And I've just been really impressed with what's going on domestically. I think we continue to close the gap on champagne, which is obviously the end all be all of sparkling wine. And this private property really blew me away, which is why I wanted to make sure it was here for a couple of reasons. One, you know, Labor Day parties, I think some bubbles to cheer off the summer is always a good idea.

2:31Also, this is a weird one, but I want it in the case because I'm a big fan of sparkling wine for tailgate season. And so I drink bubbles at my tailgate. So football's here any day now. And I can't believe that. And I'm excited about that. And you'll definitely feel this being great sparkler. And then, you know, just we get into the fall and there's a lot of, you know, birthdays and anniversaries and things of that nature in September. A lot of people get married in that month. And so highly recommend this as an anniversary wine. But you can feel it. The complexity is amazing. The fruit's beautiful.

3:07And I hope everybody enjoys this. Yeah, sparklers are definitely very food friendly as well. So no matter what you're eating, no matter what time of the year it is, you can normally rosé is reserved for the summertime, springtime for a lot of people. a sparkler like this can go all year round, pair with any meal really. It's actually a really good point. Like, you know, friends, if you go, you know, especially New York restaurants in September are amazing. Just the produce season's incredible here in the city. The city's so alive in September. And one of my favorite months, if not my favorite month with Manhattan culture and getting sparkling with your crudo or salad or shellfish.

3:49Like it just, it's so fun. And so start that in your repertoire. If you're a red wine drinker and you haven't started your journey on sparkling wine, come join the sommeliers and the masters of wine and us wine nerds on this journey. Cause it's a great addition to your game. Agreed. All right, let's move it on. This Pinot should be a lot of fun. Big Basin Vineyards, the old Corral Pinot. This is a 2021 from Santa Cruz mountains. as you see right here. 13.2 % ABV. This is not a big 14.5%, 15 % California fruit bomb, big pinot. They do a more reserved style here at Big Basin. State vineyard site in Santa Cruz Mountains here.

4:26You know, you got a lot of whole cluster fermentation, neutral vessels. So it's not something that's going to have heavy oak influence. It's going to be very natural, kind of hands-off style of winemaking. Double 93s from Enthusiast and Venice, also 92 from Robert with Parker's Wine Advocate, let's give it a taste here. It should be like an earthy, savory sort of style. It really is. And it's really elegant and very balanced. You know, I always love this beef jerky kind of meat strawberry thing that I get in Pinot on my palate. And there is a little bit of that soy sauce element, the salt that I tend to like so much that I feel in beef jerky as well.

5:05But the red strawberries and the kind of red fruit, the cherries, the raspberries, the red cassis, it really comes across here. And then you get that kind of like charcoal, smoky kind of rendition on the finish. Yeah, the wine is very elegant, soft. The fruit is so supple, but very real on the palate. It's not super candy, super massive. It's very real. It's very subtle. And also the color of the wine. Sometimes these Calipinos, you look at them, they look like cabs almost, especially at a Napa. So it's a real good call out. Like this is not sea smoke. This is not, you know, this is not. For instance, like something like that.

5:43This is not Costa Brown. This is not extracted. This is not to blow you away with its velocity and viscosity and voluptuousness. This is kind of like a lot of pinots have gone the way of like plastic surgery and like fake lips. This is more like Katharine Hepburn, right? This is more classic beauty, more subtle. And you really feel it. This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome? That's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50-page restoration block, or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks.

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6:47Let's move on. All right. I love this. Round us out. And I'm pretty sure that this Brunello is actually going to have probably a fairly similar color to the Pinot, just that sort of light, almost sort of brickish sort of color to it. A little bit darker. A little bit darker. This is a 2019 from Boca Selvo. Comes from Sensi Winery. Brunello di Montalcino 2019. This has 94 points from Wine Enthusiast. 2019 is a fabulous vintage in Brunello. This is 100 % Sen Giavese, as always with Brunello. Pretty traditional aging process here. You have 36 months in large oak barrels, nothing imparting too much flavor, and then one to two years in concrete slash steel after that.

7:30So it's a five-year total aging process before this guy is released here. Yeah, it's really good. Really sour red cherries, really complex fruit overall, and just really well done, like just smooth. yeah this is not the style of brunello it's going to be the more modern bombastic sort of um you know oak influence fuller style brunellos this is an old school kind of classic style brunello still has good fruit though at the age it's not like it's too tannic and you know the fruit is hiding behind the tannin and the structure it's still drinking really well right now even though it's a 2019 still has room to go but then a wine that's definitely drinking well if you pop it and open right now.

8:15It's a light old Brunello, which has been the flavor that I've been gravitating towards. This is not a per tamale. This is not like, you know, Argiano. Like this is definitely, you know, very honestly, you know what I'm gonna say about this August wine club for everybody's watching? This is just a good throwback to 1970s wine, right? We have a California sparkler that tastes like an actual champagne. Yes. We have a Pinot Noir that is much more similar to the great burgundies of the 70s and 80s when like we weren't fooling around with all the steroids and peptides and all the other, you know. Whatever's popular at the day today.

8:52And that's slang for all the modern winemaking, which is great. And by the way, I'm a fan. Like sometimes I want triple chocolate cake, but other times I just want a steak. Right. And I would say this Brunello and Pinot are much, much, this is the Brunello brother that I was tasting in 1994 that I was tasting from the 85s and the 88s. I'm like, oh, this is Brunello. And then we went through the Robert Parkerfication of wine for 30 years. And now we're in this beautiful place where we can have both. Absolutely, yeah. You kind of appeal to both palates depending on what sort of winemaker you are.

9:28There's a lot of winemakers who have stuck to their guns since then, since the 70s. They've just been making it the whole time. They let their wines fall out of fashion and now the wines are back into fashion. And these winemakers sort of adapted with the trends and now we're back in this sort of style as well. Yeah, I would say. I would say for me. I hate or. I like and. There's a time and a place. Me and my buddies pre-gaming before a huge Knicks game at a steakhouse in New York City. Like give me Harlan. Yeah, give you the Harlan. Give you the Bevan Sellers. Give you the big bombastic cab. But me over a business dinner that's going to last three hours where I'm going to catch up with a good business friend, you know, I'm going to look for, you know, a more moderate Pouillac Cabernet based wine that doesn't overpower my food because I'm having something a little lighter and I want to like lock in and not like celebrate.

10:24So like there's sometimes you're in New York and sometimes you're in Vegas and sometimes you're in your backyard in the suburbs with your family and they all require different styles of wine. Yeah, there's great winemaking styles for all different occasions. And just because you like one style does not mean you have to be anti the other style. And that's the big problem in wine, Matt. Yeah. People pick sides and I think that's crazy. Right. Or they're a, you know, they're a Bordeaux, Piedmont, Burgundy drinker and they don't want to try anything from California. Even though, as we've seen today, we had two wines from United States, which are both very, very good.

10:54And to your point, very European. Very European, very elegant style. We'll see you in September, everyone. Matty, Thanks for coming in for Brandon today. No problem at all. Thanks, everyone.