Event

Every Thursday from 4:00 until 8:00 pm we open a special bottle of wine and offer to you at a highly discounted price.
The wines are typically 90 points or better and are discounted 20-40%. Sometimes even more! when we can get special pricing from our vendors , we pass the savings along to you!!
Come in on Thursday and sample. If you can't make it, call us and we can put some aside for you!! 
(All purchases must be accompanied by a credit card.)

 Sella & Mosca

TERRE
RARE
RISERVA

2010

   Carignano del Sulcis D.O.C.

Sardinia, Italy

100% Carignano (Carignan)

The Rated # 1  Top Value Wine of 2015! WE

92 Points The Wine Enthusiast 

“This elegantly structured wine opens with aromas of black plum, mocha, Mediterranean herbs and a hint of scorched earth. The round, enveloping palate doles out ripe black cherry, blackberry, cinnamon and white pepper, while firm, silky tannins provide the framework. A fantastic wine, it’s already enjoyable and will offer fine drinking over the next few years".

Our Thoughts...............

 Intense ruby red with purple hues, aromas of ripe raspberries accompanied by spicy notes and floral scents with a touch of vanilla. Rich and concentrated with firm, round tannins and flavors of cherry and red fruit. A natural match for roasted chicken, pasta with red sauce or grilled meats.

Regularly $17.99

Special Sale Price Tonight

Only $16.00 a bottle

 $87.00 for 6!!!

Limited quantity!
You will have to email or call us!

703-668-WINE(9463) 

A Bit About Vinification.....

From selected portions of the estate’s bush trained Carignano vines, in the Sulcis district of Sardinia. Here, the Carignano grape faces extreme conditions: extremely hot weather in the summer, long periods of drought and strong winds from the sea; elements, which are often noxious to other grape varieties. The wild and rugged landscape of the Sulcis region, together with these extreme weather conditions, undoubtedly limit production capacity, rendering the grapes more concentrated and complex, resulting in higher quality “raw materials”. Lastly, the vineyards closer to the coast, the soils tend to be sandy, and this characteristic has proven to prevent phylloxera completing its life cycle. Therefore in these vineyards one can still find ungrafted old vines, just as it was at the end of the 19th century, before phylloxera almost destroyed European viticulture.The grapes are manually harvested in October and fermented in stainless steel vats for 10 to 15 days at 86°F. Soon after the end of this tumultuous fermentation, a slow completion period follows while Malolactic fermentation progresses. Aging: Three years in barriques (French) and several months in bottle prior to release. Three years in barriques (French) and several months in bottle prior to release.
 

About Carignano del Sulcis....

Carignano del Sulcis is an Italian wine DOC of Sardinia. It is reserved exclusively for red and rose wines made from Carignan, or Carignano as it is known there, grown in the very south-western corner of the island. This characterful variety arrived in Sardinia either via Provence or eastern Spain – the island has long-established trade routes with southern France, latterly via Corsica, and was ruled by the Spanish house of Aragon during the late Middle Ages and into the Rennaissance period.

Sulcis is a coastal zone around the modern-day Sant'Antioco, a city founded by the Phoenicians and known then by the name Solki, which eventually became Sulcis. It includes the island of Sant-Antioco, Italy's fourth-largest island (after Sicily, Elba and Sardinia itself), which is connected to the mainland by a causeway and bridge. A respectable number of vines are grown on the island, particularly in its north-eastern corner between Sant-Antioco and Calasetta towns. Here, the northern end of the Gulf of Palmas separates the island from the Sardinian mainland and provides a cooling influence for Sardinia's most southerly vines. At a latitude of 38 degrees north, this is one of the more equatorial viticultural regions in Europe, parallel with Murcia in southern Spain, Alentejo in Portugal and Calabria on the Italian mainland.

These red and rose wines come in aged riserva, superiore, early-drinking novello and dried-grape passito forms, although there is no fortified liquoroso variant as with many other Sardinian wine DOCs (such as Giro di Cagliari). The riserva wines undergo two years of ageing, at least six months of which must be in bottle; the latter requirement is reduced to three months for the standard red wines. To claim that it is superiore, a wine must be made from grapes grown on vines trained in the traditional bush-vine style known as Alberello Latino.