Boya 2024 Sauvignon Blanc, Aconcagua, Chile
Retail: $51| Club Price: $44| 6 Bottle Price: $251
100% Sauvignon Blanc. Boya was created by the Garcés Silva family, pioneers of the coastal Leyda Valley in Chile. Boya in Spanish means “buoy” – an appropriate name for a wine coming from vineyard blocks that overlook the Pacific Ocean. This women owned winery is built into the bed rock. Boya is made in a 100% gravity fed winery, a winemaking practice that preserves its aromatic potential and natural structure. These all organic grapes are grown on mostly granite soils with some clay. Finished in stainless steel.
Pielihueso 2023 Primero Blanco, Los Chacayes, Argentina
Retail: $44| Club Price: $38| 6 Bottle Price: $216
50% Torrontes, 25% Sauvrgnon Blanc and 25% Chardonnay, grown on alluvial and stone soil. This unfiltered wine has some skin contact creating that orange hue. Pielihueso is Spanish for “skin and bones”, this estate began in 2017 when father/daughter combo Celina and Alejandro Bartolome planted vines in Los Chacayes and Los Sauces. The wines are all farmed organically and made with no corrections, fermented with native yeast and a low addition of sulfur is added just before bottling.
Tilia 2024 Torrontes Mendoza, Argentina
Retail: $42| Club Price: $36| 6 Bottle Price: $205
100% Torrontes. The grapes are grown on sandy soil in Cafayate, Salta in Northern Argentina, in a high-altitude vineyard that sits at an incredibly high 5,500 feet above sea level. The juice is fermented for three months in stainless steel tanks. Irrigation is provided by the Tunuyan River, carrying pure mountain spring water from snow melt of the Andes. Tilia illustrates the journey toward sustainable viticulture in Argentina through its label, with the hope to inspire a movement among wine drinkers and producers all over the world.
Bodegas 2024 Chardonnay, Cerro Chapeu, Uruguay
Retail: $48| Club Price: $42| 6 Bottle Price: $240
100% Chardonnay from 35 year old vines grown on sandy deep red soil. This wine does not go through and fining or filtering and finishes in 50% neutral oak for 6-10 months. The vineyard practices fully sustainable viticulture using only estate-grown grapes across 40 hectares, surrounded by 220 hectares of preserved natural habitat. Sheep graze the land, enriching soil health and biodiversity. Biofertilizers and organic fungal controls are prioritized. No artificial irrigation is used; water from the Guaraní aquifer is recycled through pine forests and composting.
Gillmore Wines 2023 Almaule Pais, Chile
Retail: $52| Club Price: $45| 6 Bottle Price: $257
100% Pais, this is one of the first varietals planted in Chile brought there by Spanish missionaries in the 16th century. These hand harvested grapes come from the Loncomilla Valley. This is located in the coastal dry area of the Maule Valley. This rare climate inspired them to apply the concept of dry farming, without irrigation. The rainfall in winter and early spring has sole responsibility for providing their vines with water for the duration of the growing season. Fermentation for this wine occurred in stainless steel tanks as well as its aging for 6 months.
Aniello 2024 Pinot Noir, Patagonia, Argentina
Retail: $56| Club Price: $49| 6 Bottle Price: $279
100% Pinot Noir grown on sand and loam soils. These grapes were hand harvested from a small production at the 006 parcel from one of their estate vineyards located in Mainque, Upper Rio Negro Valley. This is directly on the opposite side of the world, equivalent to Denver. Fermentation takes place in small concrete tanks in a slow, cool temperature-controlled process, with 30% of the cluster. They use both indigenous and selected yeasts. Malolactic fermentation also takes place in tanks. A small portion of the wine is aged in French oak for 12 months.
Flaherty 2022 Carmenere, Aconcagua, Chile
Retail: $65| Club Price: $56| 6 Bottle Price: $319
92% Carmenere and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon The grapes are from the Ocoa Vineyard and were hand picked. The soils are an alluvial fan of loam and granite. The fermentations took place in small open-top fermenters, with extended maceration before aging for sixteen months in American and French oak barrels. As a small, boutique winery, they have chosen to make red blends to create complexity and consistent quality by working with several different varieties. Their hand-crafted wines aim to reflect the regional differences of the areas where the grapes are grown.
Gauchezco Plata 2021 Malbec Grand Reserva, Uco Valley, Argentina
Retail: $67| Club Price: $58| 6 Bottle Price: $331
100% Malbec grown at 3600 ft on shallow alluvial soils. These grapes were hand picked, destemmed and crushed. Fermentation happens in small stainless steel tanks. This is aged for 12 months in first and second use oak barrels: 60% French, 30% American and 10% Hungarian. Another 12 months of aging in the bottle before release. This 24 month total of aging is the requirement for the label of Grand Reserva in Argentina.