Saturday Wine Tasting!
Robert will be here to guide you through an incredible selection of Louis Dressner Selections!
Occhipinti SP 68 Rosso 2021, Quinta do Infantado Douro Red 2016, Chateau d’Oupia Heretiques, 2021 Koehler Ruprecht Rose ‘21,
Koehler Ruprecht Riesling’20, Koehler Ruprecht Pinot Noir ‘21!!!!!!!!!!
call 256-964-7980 to reserve
Saturday, January 14th 2-4
103 North Side Square
Louis/Dressner Selections is a portfolio of over 100 vignerons hailing from France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia and Chile. We are a partnership of Denyse Louis, a native Burgundian, Jules Dressner and Kevin McKenna.
Louis Dressner Wine Tasting
Le Petit Bijou
Thursday, Jan 14th 2-4pm
*Our original location- 103 North Side Square*
$20 Per Person (Wine Tasting Only)
Reservations Requested. Call 256-964-7980
Presented by special guest,
Robert Gunn of Pinnacle Imports
2020 Koehler Ruprecht Riesling Kabinett Trocken, Pfalz, Germany
One of the founding fathers of dry cellarable German Rieslings, late release wines are not just what Koehler-Ruprecht does, it is who they are. Among aficionados, even the name can elicit a nearly mythic devotion to the twin deities of tradition and time." —Paula Sidore
Vivacious and intensely delicious with a ramrod-straight spine and terrific chalk/talc mineral aromas that follow through on the palate.
2021 Koehler Ruprecht Rose Kabinett Trocken, Pfalz, Germany
100% Pinot Noir vinified in ancient barrels with a short soak and no malolactic. Savory, peppery, minerally, fine-boned, driven by strawberry and red currant flavors. Arch-traditional, sustainably grown and conscientiously made, always popular, always excellent.
2021 Koehler Ruprecht Pinot Noir Kabinett Trocken, Pfalz, Germany
Sourced from a mix of sites in Kallstadt and one vineyard in Bad Dürkheim where the soils here are light and sandy. The grapes were handpicked, destemmed and fermented in stainless stee. The wine is pale, succulent and nervy with terrific cran/cherry fruit, fresh soil notes and very little oak in evidence.
2021 Chateau d’Oupia Heretiques, Herault, France
80% Carignan/20% Grenache. The Carignan vines average 40 years in age, with some of them being up over 100 years old. The fruit is sustainably farmed and harvested partly by hand and partly by machine. The Carignan remains in whole clusters and goes through a carbonic maceration in tank. The Grenache is destemmed and goes through a 3-4-week maceration in concrete vats. Fermentation is with selected yeasts. The two varieties are blended and aged in tank. The wine is bottled with a light, non-sterile filtration. Robert Parker once complemented this wine saying: "the ideal bistro wine. Dark, ruby-colored, the wine is wonderfully clean and pure, with an exuberant personality, and gobs of rich, peppery, red and black fruit"
"Les Hérétiques" is a nod to the Cathars, a heretical Christian group based in the Languedoc but wiped out by order of Pope Innocent III in 1208 in response to the murder of a papal representative by a Cathar supporter near Minervois. The castle which is the home of Château d'Oupia dates back to this time as well.
2021 Occhipinti SP 68 Rosso, Sicily, Italy
The name ‘SP68’ refers to the main road which runs by the Occhipinti winery in Vittoria. It is emblematic of the area and seems only fitting to grace the label of Arianna’s ‘village’ wine. Biodynamically grown, this is a blend of predominantly Frappato with a touch of Nero d’Avola to add spice and body. It is a vivid wine, plush, and silky, with juicy notes of sour cherry, cranberry, crunchy red fruit, and dark fruit compote - distinctively Sicilian!
2016 Quinta do Infantado Red, Douro, Portugal
This incredibly delicious Portughese dry red is made of 100% estate grapes : Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Nacional and some old field-blend red varieties from two sustainably farmed sites (Serra Douro & Serra de Cotas) totaling eleven and one-half hectares and including the classic Douro blend of varieties in old parcels. Vinified with partly destemmed fruit then fermented with native yeasts in lagar; the wine is aged eight months in tank and twenty-eight months in 300-liter French oak barrels (little to no new oak). It was almost Bordeaux-like in its flavor and style, yet will please the Cabernet lover as well. Black cherry, dark plum and Asian spices abound... pair with gamey roast pork or lamb, eggplant and herb roasted vegetables in particular. A winter stew or chili will also be fantastic with this beauty.
