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We recommend using a business delivery address to receive wine shipments, as we are required by law to have an adult (over age 21) signature for wine deliveries. UPS will make 3 delivery attempts, and the customer will then be billed $24.00, in addition to return shipping costs.
A note on corks and decanting in older wines: We recommend using a dual-pronged Ah-So opener to gently, patiently finesse the cork. Gentleness is key, and individual corks vary, some prone to crumbling, others firm and easy to extract. If a cork crumbles or is pushed into the wine bottle, as sometimes occurs, we recommend decanting with a sieve. Decanting will only enhance the nuanced flavors of a mature wine. Finally, shipping can disturb sediment in older wines, so some rare wine collectors recommend cellaring & allowing sediment to settle to the bottom before enjoying.
—Cheers! Kristof & Jennifer
“The 2004 PELLA is drinking impeccably, comparable in style to the best Bordeaux wines. (We have customers who have written to say they prefer it to Lafite.) Its texture is pure whipped cream with luxuriant silkiness, creating a pleasing counterpoint to the core of bright, acidic fruit...The wine is a blockbuster of sophisticated and layered flavors, with impressive length. Notes of dark, juicy fig expand upon flavors of sea-salted black licorice, rosemary, black olive, coffee with cream, and sweet tobacco, with inviting aromatics of sandalwood, ripe briar patch, and menthol, as the wine uncoils in the glass. Gorgeous pine forest, umami, wild lavender honey, honeysuckle. Mouthwatering acidity, like biting into a ripe plum. From the barrels, dimensions of coffee, caramel, burnt sugar. ”
“The 2004 PELLA Cabernet Sauvignon is dark garnet with brickish red hues in the glass; this bottling offers a very sweetly fruited aromatic union of both riper fruits and holiday spices. We tasted this again 21 years post vintage. Its scents include notes of black licorice, prune, cassis, cherry liqueur, cardamom, clove and sweet pipe tobacco spice. It offers a bit more density on the palate than the 2003 and is very well layered. The palate is juicy and mouth-watering with flavors of blackberry...clove, nutmeg and cardamom. The finish lingers with long-lasting but well-rounded, integrated tannins along with a perceptible and final note of dried tobacco leaf and a light but persistent drying/dusty character.”
