Event

Every Thursday from 4:00 until 8:00 pm we open a special bottle of wine and offer to you at a highly discounted price.
The wines are typically 90 points or better and are discounted 20-40%. Sometimes even more! when we can get special pricing from our vendors , we pass the savings along to you!!
Come in on Thursday and sample. If you can't make it, call us and we can put some aside for you!! 
(All purchases must be accompanied by a credit card.)

Emmolo 
Napa Valley
MERLOT 2015  

You may remember we featured the 2014 of this 100% Merlot back in May and sold out within a day!

Jenny Wagner is the newest member of the Wagners to join the family business as a winemaker.
Emmolo is named after Jenny’s maternal family, and was launched twenty years ago by her mother, Cheryl Emmolo. Jenny has been working alongside her father, Chuck Wagner founder of Caymus, for the past few years, benefiting from hands-on learning of both grape farming and winemaking in the Napa Valley. 

Forget what you thought about Merlot, this wine breaks all those paradigms!

Big and lush, this is the classic "iron fist in a velvet glove"wine. Bring on the beef!

91 Points! Wilfred Wong 

 "Showing substantial depth, the 2015 Emmolo Merlot stands out as a rather "bigger" example of this grape variety. The wine exhibits an attractive combination of red and blue fruits, with a streak of oak and dried leaves. Pair it with a grilled Porterhouse steak. " Tasted: August 25, 2017, San Francisco, CA

Elsewhere at $59.99 
 Our Regular price $54.99
Special Private Sale for Existing
Wine Cabinet Patrons Only!
Tonight's Price is lower than any advertised price in the country.
 Call us at  
 
703-668-9463 (WINE)

Grapes for this wine were sourced from Napa Valley’s Oak Knoll district, which includes two family vineyards. The area's cooler weather, along with crop thinning and gravelly light soil, creates ideal conditions for producing a rich, distinctive Merlot. This wine is lush and supple on the palate, with expansive, dark berry flavors, a fresh earthiness, and smooth, leathery tannins.

A bit about Emmolo...... 

Jenny Wagner daughter of Chuck Wagner has taken the reins of Emmolo (EM – oh – low) Winery from her mother, Cheryl Emmolo, the owner and founder of this lovely Rutherford estate.

Jenny Wagner's family has a long-standing history in Napa Valley beginning with her great-grandfather, Italian immigrant, Salvatore Emmolo, who planted grapevines and started a grapevine rootstock nursery in Rutherford in the 1920s. He grew and sold phylloxera-resistant vines – the same "resistant" vines that saved the wine industry from the devastating vinifera louse of the late 19th century. His son, Frank Emmolo, ran Emmolo Nursery and built a strong following among Napa Valley grape growers, becoming the leading supplier to Napa Valley vintners for five decades.

After becoming established grape growers, the Emmolos opened up Palermo Winery in 1934, named after the city from which they emigrated. The winery operated for less than a decade, closing due to the public's lack of interest in wine. As things worked out, the family sustained the land over the years and tossed their hat into the ring again, with Cheryl Emmolo establishing the building as Emmolo Winery. Now Jenny Wagner will continue the family legacy of farming vines and making Emmolo wine in the original winery built by her great grandfather in 1934. 

Production and Style:

Merlot is a variety that requires hands-on manipulation in the vineyard to make a rich, concentrated wine. Crop thinning throughout the growing season leads to a low yield of rich, concentrated fruit. Grapes are sourced from Emmolo Oak Knoll, which includes two vineyards, one of which my grandfather Frank Emmolo purchased in 1972. On an average summer day, Oak Knoll is about 7 degrees cooler than Rutherford, allowing for a longer "hang time" than in warmer areas, which means that we can push the grapes to full ripeness. Harvest came in early to mid-October, and the combination of cooler weather, crop thinning and gravely light soil created ideal conditions for producing a rich, distinctive Merlot.