NEW April Releases at the LCBO
We have three special gems from Europe to welcome back April's sunshine this month, including a special Aloxe-Corton 1er Cru from Pascal Clément (pictured above).
Read below for details, along with link to purchase.
Pascal Clément Les Valozières Aloxe-Corton 1er Cru 2019
Born into a family of growers and winemakers, Pascal had more than 20 vintages working experience in Bourgogne before he started his own project in 2012. Based in Savigny-les-Beaune, where he owns a half hectare organic vineyard, he farms 10 ha across 29 appellations in Bourgogne for his wines. 80% of his production is white wine, a passion honed by his years of winemaking at Coche Dury, amongst others. He farms with no chemicals, does native ferment in barrel, employs MLF, and never uses battonage in his wines. This comes from the complexed calcareous red clays of 1er Cru Les Valozières, near the Grand Cru side of Aloxe-Corton.
Read more about Pascal Clément here.
Appellation : AOC Aloxe-Corton
Region : Bourgogne
Country : France
Grape(s) : Pinot Noir
Price : $105
LCBO : 41380
Bodegas Sentencia El Indulto La Fuente Bobale Ancianas 2021
Alberto Pedrón comes from a long line of vine growers in Los Pedrones, a village of fewer than 200 inhabitants in the comarca of Utiel-Requena, Valencia. In 2006, a 6 hectare plantation that had been tended by Alberto’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather was scheduled to be scrubbed up, and he decided to take action. To save the vineyard and, by extension, a way of working and living, he resurrected the family bodega. This special organic Bobal comes from their oldest vineyards in red clay soils, and spent 9 months in used French barrels.
Read more about Bodegas Sentencia here.
Appellation : DOP Utiel-Requena
Region : Valencia
Country : Spain
Grape(s) : Bobal
Price : $36.95
LCBO : 42872
Assuli Carinda Insolia 2023
Baglio Assuli lies in the midst of land belonging to the Caruso family, a splendid area of countryside in a property of over 120 hectares. Assuli ("In the sunshine" in Sicilian dialect), is the result of the patient, painstaking restoration of an old 18th century baglio (farm).The third generation of the family, Roberto, Nicoletta and Michele, is now leading the company towards new goals. Insolia is an historic and important indigenous Sicilian grape, here fermented and aged in stainless steel.
Read more about Assuli here.
Appellation : DOC Sicilia
Region : Sicily
Country : Italy
Grape(s) : Insolia
Price : $19.95
LCBO : 39393
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Cheers,
Le Sommelier
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bernard@lesommelier.com
