Event
Open Bottle - Pezat Red Bordeaux, St Emilion
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Time: 04:00pm - 08:00pm
Type: Wine Tasting
Location: The Wine Cabinet
Event Free
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.)
PEZAT
Red Bordeaux Superieur 2012
from Chateau Tessier, Saint Emilion
"An impressive project of Jonathan Maltus (proprietor of Chateau Teyssier, Le Dome and other chateaux in St.-Emilion), this blend of 85% Merlot and the rest Cabernet France is a sleeper of the vintage. Priced realistically, the wine displays an opaque ruby/purple color and beautiful cassis fruit intermixed with kirsch, liquorice and a hint of underbrush. It is dense, medium to full-bodied, very silky-textured, mouth-filling and enormously satisfying. This sleeper is best drunk over the next several years."
89 Points The Wine Advocate
Saint Emilion does not always get the recognition that it deserves for crafting wines of elegance and weight. Wines that will complement a cheeseburger on Tuesday evening as well as a Filet Mignon on Saturday with guests. This wine will open your eyes in more ways than one at a price that will be quite nice on the budget!! The Merlot is soft and velvet dark berries and the Cabernet Franc adds a finish of cocoa that you will savor. Mike
“Packed with rich, joyous, vibrant fruit, caressed and carefully handled - a total class act. This is what the market demands”
The idea of PEZAT came to us because we felt that we could make an excellent, rather than boring, wine from vineyards that were just outside the Saint Emilion Appellation if we applied Saint Emilion standards to the vineyard and winemaking. The wine is made to high standards using the same equipment and methods that are used for CHATEAU TEYSSIER. The Winemaker
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Regularly $ 18.99
Special Open Bottle Price
Only $16.00 a bottle
$84.00 for 6!!!
Our Thoughts.....
PEZAT is a blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc. The wine comes from a specific vineyard called ‘La Plagnolle’ which we converted into a vineyard that would sit happier in the Saint Emilion Appellation than Bordeaux. Vine density was doubled and the height of the original vines was reduced by half. If you take one step from ‘La Plagnolle’ you’re in the Saint Emilion Appellation, anyway.
PEZAT is handpicked to maintain a quality that is keeping with all the grapes that are delivered to CHATEAU TEYSSIER - Only conveyors are used to transport the grapes and the wine is fermented in stainless steel tanks after cold maceration. The wines are aged in French oak for a shorter period than any of our other wines.
Great Bang for the Buck!!
The History of Chateau Tessier and Jonathon Malthus, .….
The estate was predominantly a farm in the 18th century until it was acquired by the historian Jules Roy in 1869, who constructed chateau and structured the vineyards. Château Teyssier was reduced to a neglected 5 hectare estate when Jonathan and Lyn Maltus arrived in 1994. The new owners modernised the winery and cellar, constructed a second winery and acquired additional plots in Vignonet, Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens and Saint-Émilion.
Jonathan Maltus, frequently termed a "Garagiste" and "Cult winemaker" collaborates with the oenologist Neil Whyte and consultant oenologist Gilles Pauquet. Among Maltus' other winemaking projects was The Colonial Estate in Barossa Valley and Eden Valley incorporating some vines previously used for Penfolds Grange, producing labels such as Exile, and Émigré. His involvement there ended in 2009. A venture in Napa Valley produced its first wines in 2011 under the Estate name, World's End. In February 2008, Maltus acquired the remainder of Vieux Château Mazerat, neighbouring estate of Château Angélus, adding 6 hectares (15 acres) to the plot bought in 1996 which produces the fruit for Le Dôme.
The estate also has a production of generic Bordeaux appellation wine. The Bordeaux supérieur red Pezat, produced since 2005 from a Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens 7.75-hectare (19.2-acre) vineyard La Plagnolle, made up of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc has an annual production of 2,500 cases (220 hL). Pezat White consists of Sémillon, Sauvignon blanc andMuscadelle from the 1.20-hectare (3.0-acre) plot Rougerie and the 1.80-hectare (4.4-acre) plot Montet, and has an annual production of 1,000 cases (90 hL). A Pezat Rosé is also produced since 2006 as an expression of saignée of Saint Emilion Grand Crus, with a production of 1,500 cases (130 hL).