Your Wine Personality Is: Classic Luxury

You love to invest in quality items that never go out of style...

…beautifully crafted treasures that are timeless. Simplicity and elegance are your calling cards, and you're known across your friend group for your exceptional taste. You adore curating a lifestyle that's effortlessly chic!

Your wine choices reflect your elegant, classic taste- you gravitate towards old-world wines for their refinement and ease of pairing with food.

Here are 10 totally customized, sommelier-curated recommendations sure to please your luxurious, elegant palate--- shop them at the links:

Sparkling Wine:  Vilmart Grand Cellier 1er Cru Brut Champagne, $65

This premier-cru Champagne is luxurious and fresh: with white flower aromas like honeysuckle and lilac, citrus notes, as well as fresh butter and cream.  On the palate, it’s lively with a delicate effervescence, and the wine reveals spicy notes of ginger and lemongrass

Light-Bodied White Wine: Domaine Bailly-Reverdy, Sancerre Chavignol 2019, $30

This Sauvignon Blanc from the Sancerre appellation of France's Loire Valley is vibrant and thirst-quenching with notes of coriander, white peach, grapefruit, and fresh pear, all highlighted among notes of chalky minerals.  The vineyards have been in the family since the turn of the century, and Domaine Bailly-Reverdy produces classic, letter-perfect Sancerre.

Full-Bodied White Wine:  Domaine Faiveley, Montagny Blanc 2018, $28.99

This Chardonnay from Burgundy's Côte Chalonnaise subregion presents the classic features of a Burgundian Chardonnay: pale gold color with aromas of acacia, mayflower, honeysuckle, lemon-balm and gun-flint. In the mouth, the wine is always fresh, frisky, and young at heart. Its acidity and concentration come together well, to give this wine good balance.

Aromatic White Wine:  Trimbach Riesling 2017, $16.99

Riesling is the most emblematic of Alsace grape varieties. With a delicate bouquet, it’s perfectly balanced between its dry personality, its distinguished fruitiness, and its exceptional richness. Vinified dry, it’s full of spring blossoms, white peach, and apricot notes.

Rosé Wine:  Miraval Rose 2019, $21.99

This rosé is gorgeous: pretty pale petal pink, with elegant and beautiful aromatic expression of fresh fruit and spring flowers. In the mouth, the acidity is refreshing; a great elegance and a nice balance dominate, with a saline finish. Peach, citrus, and raspberry notes all leap from the glass, and it's juicy, vibrant, and crisp on the palate.

Orange Wine:  Ryme Vare Vineyard Ribolla Gialla 2014, $44.99

This Ribolla Gialla tastes like hazelnuts, baking spices, Meyer lemon curd, Bartlett pear, but most of all it has a stony minerality that is incredibly distinctive. There is supple tannic structure and fresh balanced acidity, with great weight and length given the low alcohol.

Light-Bodied Red Wine:  Brooks Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2018, $25.99

Aromas of fresh cherries, wild strawberry, cranberry and red plum give way to earthy, heady notes of mushroom, fresh turned soil and dried red currants. On the palate, the wine has a luxurious long, fruity, lush finish with complex and earthy secondary flavors of truffle, shitakes and cherry compote.

Medium-Bodied Red Wine: Altesino Brunello di Montalcino 2015, $65

This wine has a deep ruby red color, aromas of red fruit, spices and tobacco; velvety and complex on the palate with flavors of rose, cherry, and balsamic, with fragrant tannins and a long, persistent finish.

Full-Bodied Red Wine: Clos de L'Oratoire Saint-Émilion Grand Cru, $59

The youthful deep purple hue is alluring, but the charming aromas of fresh cherries, wild plum, violets, and cedar, with flourishes of tobacco and leather will utterly capture your imagination. Medium-full bodied and firm on the palate, flavors of blackberry, red currant, cocoa powder, and dried herbs are held tightly by slightly grainy, muscular tannins, giving a bold intensity to the finish.

Dessert Wine:  Chateau Guiraud Sauternes (375ML half-bottle) 2011, $39.99

This wine has exceptional clarity, balance and freshness, a full body, and a medium-sweet crisp finish. It’s racy and refined, with seamlessly layered notes of almond cream, apricot, ginger, mango, piecrust, papaya and toasted hazelnut. The long, spice-infused finish shows beautiful depth, echoing with a note of enticing tarte Tatin.

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