14 May, 2020
Hard to believe that it"s May and we"re still having nights in the 30"s!
Seems that we still need to have a good red to keep us warm and cozy.
We have just the thing to meet that need and make you forget all about Quarantine!
TONIGHT - MARIETTA CHRISTO!
If you appreciate Syrah-based Blends, this is one that absolutely should be in your cellar!
Not only is it drinking quite nicely right now, but it will continue to improve for as long as you have the patience to wait!
Think of a very well-made Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
Friday and Saturday - As always, we attempt to offer wines that will make the weekend perfect for every budget!
I think we have succeeded exceptionally well this week!
And wait until you try the beer!
Victory Brewing has done it again!
Perfect for a warm day with a nice grilled Reuben or Rachel!!
Tomorrow is your last chance to preorder this fantastic array of Helen Turley wines!
You can have them in plenty of time for Father"s day!!
The wines will not be delivered to us until late May.
You have to place and pay for your order by May 15.
PESENTI VINEYARD, PASO ROBLES 2018 95 Pts Vinous $54.99
ESTATE, NAPA VALLEY 2018 94 Pts Vinous $49.99
LIBRARY OFFER - DUSI VINEYARD, PASO ROBLES 2017 95 Pts Robert Parker
$79.99
As an extra special incentive you will get
10% Off for any 6
and
15% Off for any 12 ordered!
If you have any question about how to order on line, just click on the FaceBook logo below and it will take you to the details!
As always, our goal at The Wine Cabinet
is to serve Reston and Northern Virginia in the best way possible
- one bottle at a time!
Thanks again for supporting your local small businesses!!
MARIETTA CELLARS
CHRISTO
60% Syrah, 22% Petite Sirah,14% Grenache, 4% Viognier
2016
North Coast, CA
If you’re a fan of Big Blends like The Prisoner, Quilt Fabric of the Land or Stags Leap The Investor you will love this monster of a wine!
93 Points! Vinous
"The 2016 Christo, Marietta"s Syrah-based blend, is terrific. Black cherry, chocolate, leather, licorice and spice give the wine much of its dark, brooding feel. Powerful and intense, but with good freshness, the 2016 is wonderfully complete and absolutely delicious."
Elsewhere at $26.99
Our Regular price $22.99
Special Sale Price
$18.00 a bottle
$96.00 for six ( $16.00 )
Click here To Purchase on Line
or
Call us, at 703-668-WINE (9463)
Our Thoughts on this wine.....
Dark, dense, rich and spicy, this Rhone-style blend is impressively delicious.
Full bodied, it"s saturated with blackberry, cinnamon and black-pepper flavors supported by fine-grained tannins.
While it packs a punch, it is well balanced for a big, assertive wine, and will only get better with time in the bottle.
Scot"s Story, Scot"s words...
I grew up watching my dad do magic. Never with cards or sleight of hand, instead, he would transform cardboard wine boxes into suits of armor for my brothers and I, or make up stories on the spot about rusted out cars in the river and turn them into broken down steeds of long gone errant knights. All of us kids would listen to him, fascinated, he had a way of casually turning the everyday, the routine, into something special. Meals were simple but sourced from the garden and eaten outside at sunset. There were multiple hour sessions of hide and seek in the winery that involved crazy ingenuity: building a wine pallet around an
empty space to lie hidden or getting wrapped up in a sleeping bag before hiding in a freezer with the door propped open…
That is how I learned to make wine. Watching my dad cook ribs that were sweet but spicy and blending together a fruity Zinfandel and a hefty Petite Sirah so that it would go better with dinner. Everything was transformed to become something better. Creativity and possibility reigned supreme.
I started here at Marietta a week after graduating from UC Davis with in depth scientific and technical training. Plonked down in the middle of the cellar, I was uncertain and tentative but my dad gave me lots of room and I repurposed machinery, built out the winery, and showed up day after day just trying to make a contribution by following my gut.
Ten years later, dad is retired and I learned along the way how to make wine by magic. The science is still important: there are times when yeast needs to be fed, oxygen’s interaction with the wine is still crucial, temperature ranges will make or break a fermentation… but, the real magic happens in quiet moments. After a ridiculously long day of harvesting when everyone is gone, walking the cellar between tanks full of bubbling, fermenting wine with the overhead lights off, doing one last temperature check on each tank with the palm of the hand. Thinking about the tons of grape skins, the trainloads of sugar, the massive accumulation of man-hours represented in each tank… turning dark and rich… the possibility in that cellar is palpable.
We are still performing magic here at Marietta. This second-generation winery continues to transform hard work, a blessed climate, special pieces of land, and belief into beautiful liquid expressions of family and place.
-Scot Bilbro, Owner/Winemaker
