Dear Operatives. We interrupt your Friday with a very special surprise…

A mini Store Takeover of Rothschild wines! 🏰

You don’t have to be a Rothschild to drink like one! Forget the family vault, Ops, we cracked the family cellar!! FIVE Rothschild wines from all sides of the clan. Zero trust fund required. An incredible bang for the buck AND Just $39 for this lead off 94 pointer. A steal and dropping 60 bucks back in your wallet.

Leading the charge today is this damn tasty white (I wish we could use naughty expletives for just how tasty this wine is, but keeping it clean🤐)… hard to do that when they bring so much lip smacking, mineral driven tasty greatness!

Would you expect anything less from a Rothschild project?

On the new top hit TV show The Wine Game, Gary Vaynerchuk (aka Gary Vee) remarked how insanely great wines are made by the top Bordeaux families. This one comes from the Edmond de Rothschild branch of one of the most famous wine families on the planet. In 1973, Baron Edmond de Rothschild bought Château Clarke and set out to make it one of the best estates in Listrac-Médoc.

Starting from scratch. He uprooted and replanted the entire vineyard, a process that ran from 1974 to 1979, and sold Clarke outside the traditional Bordeaux selling system.

The 2023 might be the best one yet. Decanter called it “an exemplary dry white from the Médoc” and said it surpasses both the excellent 2021 and the more voluptuous 2022.

Wine Enthusiast wrote, “This property owned by the Edmond de Rothschild family has long led the pack in Listrac.”

Andy Howard, Master of Wine, wrote in Decanter that Clarke wines are worth seeking out.

Shifting gears to the bird on the label… Le Merle Blanc means ‘the white blackbird🐦…’ and in French a merle blanc is something so rare it practically doesn’t exist. Fitting, because Clarke is one of the rare Médoc estates that makes a white at all. It dates back to 1890 and once made up nearly a quarter of the estate’s production, until the reds took over and it almost vanished. Baron Edmond brought it back. And here we were thinking it had something to do with our price…

This wine is 70% Sauvignon Blanc, with 10% each of Sauvignon Gris, Muscadelle and Sémillon, from this Certified HVE Level 3 Sustainable Estate. The whole wine rests on its lees, and half of it spends six months in barrel (which contributes to that fabulous texture we got). Half of that barrel portion is brand new oak, but don’t be fooled, it’s not oaky. Just a soft kiss in the background.

In your glass, give it a few minutes and some generous swirls to open up. Then enjoy zippy Meyer lemon, gooseberries and sunny yellow wildflowers up front, with a cool stony streak running throughout. Round and generous in the mouth with incredible texture and mouthwatering zing. Following towards the end with bright salinity and the finish circles right back to where the nose started. Tasty stuff and a wine Agent Lees and Agent Rotie snapped up real quick when it landed in our warehouse! 🕵️

Drink like a Rothschild.🏰 Pay like an Operative. $39. There are FOUR more Rothschilds in the store today!

94 Points – Decanter “I love the tangy iodine freshness and nuanced wet stone expression of the cool clay and limestone terroir from this estate, along with lemon peel, shaved almond and peach. The wine has both precision and subtle depth, surpassing both the excellent 2021 and more voluptuous 2022 with superior precision and mid-palate juiciness. Long finish. An exemplary dry white from the Médoc, ageing in 25% new oak. Drink 2024-2030”