Welcome to the home of Mississippi’s most extensive selection of wine and premium spirits! We’re beyond excited about the store and about the chance to introduce an entire world of wine and spirits to our neighbors and friends. As the seasons pass and the flavors change, we will keep our site fresh with new offerings, new ideas, new flavors. Consider this site your menu to our world and your invitation to join us in person at the shop. Stay a while, chat, and take a bottle or two home!
-Scott Jackson
Certified Sommelier
CWM News
Santé South Sneak Peek
April 1, 2013
Santé South Sneak Peak
Greetings, foodies and oenophiles! It is almost that time of year again when winemakers and vintners from the world over converge on Jackson for Santé South Wine & Food Festival! Not an ordinary wine fest, Santé South allows festival goers to taste top-flight wines from all over the world and talk about them with the people who make them. In this space we will be previewing just a few of the nearly forty producers who will be showing off the fruit of their labors this April at Highland Village to benefit Alzheimer’s.
For starters, let’s take a look at one of California’s most celebrated producers of Zinfandel, Bob Biale. Bob, his father Aldo, who first planted these vineyards in the 1930s, and childhood friend, Dave Pramuk started Robert Biale Vineyards in 1991. In the time since then, this winery has received high acclaim and a near cult-like following for their zinfandel bottlings.
Biale makes several Zins, one from Aldo’s Vineyard, a 75 year old vineyard in Napa’s Oak Knoll District and the famous “Black Chicken” Zinfandel named for the code word used for his Father’s secret wines made in his youth which comes from their Biale Ranch vineyard. They also produce some of the best Petite Sirah in California along with several excellent blends such as “Like Father, Like Son” and “Basic Black.”
Biale is known for producing hedonistic wines showing layers of dark fruit, exotic spices, and perfume with great balance and complexity. The wines range from $42 – $54 dollars and you can taste them with Bob Biale at Santé South on April 13th!
______________________
April 2, 2013
Santé South Sneak Peak
In today’s winemaker profile we’ll take a look at iconic Napa Valley vintner, Nils Venge of Saddleback Cellars. Besides being an all-around great guy, Venge is one of the most sought-after consulting winemakers in California. Perhaps that is due to the great success he has enjoyed over the last four decades while making critically acclaimed Cabernet Sauvignon bottlings from the famed Napa Valley.
Venge was the first California winemaker to garner a perfect 100 points from critic Robert Parker for his 1985 Groth Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. Today, Nils is involved in numerous other projects such as his own Venge Family Vineyards, Envy and Cougar’s Leap, as well as consulting winemaker for Plumpjack, Cade, Carter Cellars, Keenan, Del Dotto and others.
Nils will be showing a number of his wines again this year at Sante South Wine Festival. There, you can taste his wines with him and ask him something as pointed as “when did the tannins in your 2007 Saddleback Cabernet fully ripen” or something as simple as “Where in the heck is Oakville?”
This will mark the 11th consecutive year that Nils has traveled to Mississippi for our wine festival! For tickets, visit santesouth.com.
-Scott Jackson, Colony Wine Market
______________________
Santé South Sneak Peek
April 4, 2013
In this week’s Sante’ South Sneak Peek, we’ll take a look at one of the most influential people in the world of wine, John Larchet of World Wine Headquarters. Larchet is owner and winemaker for Tir Na N’og, The Wishing Tree, Hill of Content, and The Old Faithful, all of Australia.
Initially, John established The Australian Premium Wine Collection, arguably the finest portfolio of boutique, food-friendly wines made in Australia. They are primarily single vineyard wines made with respect for organic techniques by independently owned family estates. Working hand-in-hand with these producers, Larchet helped cultivate a niche for these world-class Australian wines in the USA and Europe while receiving critical acclaim for his work from uber-taster Robert Parker.
Most recently, John has broadened the scope of his work to include wines made in New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, France, Spain, Italy and Austria. His love of wine from around the world led him to create World Wine HeadQuarters, a portfolio of wines from the most significant wine producing areas in the world.
John has been a mainstay for Sante South festival-goers since the beginning. We are happy to have him back this year along with several of the producers he represents from around the world!
(A personal note on one of John’s wines, Hill of Content Grenache/Shiraz – When I first tasted this wine many years ago, it was an epiphanous moment in my love of wine and therefore, my career. Today, I am happy to report, this wine is as good or better than ever!)
-Scott Jackson, Colony Wine Market
_______
Our VLOG Library
Is that a pink wine in your hand?
______
-Join Colony Wine Market’s Mobile Wine List to receive exclusive deals and news via text message! Just text “Wine” to 601-863-8076.
What’s Hot?
|
New Arrivals
|
Recipes We Love
|
Food & Wine Pairings
|