#alexander jules

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Meta Albarino

There’s a bright floral and peachy fruit to this wine, but you have to look for it a bit in the nose around thin grapefruit minerality and an earthy, petrichor abrasion mellow and comforting. It’s not grassy, wet newsprint and ink are subliminal, but old-world cellar-floor nuances spring out calm and collected, poised and focused on balancing this wine to perfection without headline-grabbing…

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Met-burgunder

Never had a Pinot from Alex before–all his other wines are crazy-good, always edgy and interesting: but Pinot could be the big judgement-call. I mean–making awesome Chenin and Cab-Franc and Albarino is one thing… but Pinot from SRH is wadin into the big leagues! Transparent dark ruby out to a wide clear rim. Dirty-baby-diaper and a glorious earthy funk blows out of it easily, cupped in black…

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The Metrick System

You always know when you get a Metrick in your hands, you’re in for something off-mainstream, delicious–but maybe edgily so–and ESPECIALLY when it happens to be Cab Franc: guaranteed to be a crisp, nuanced Loire-style wonder. This kid makes amazing wines–tiny production and quite under-the-radar. I reviewed this wine last year, and was equally blown away. Crazy purple-ruby in the glass, out to a…

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Bang the Cangas

I have absolutely no idea what this is. I’ll be the first to admit it. Never heard of this variety, or this label or this region or whatever. It’s Spanish, that’s all I know. Medium clear ruby with a bit of brick in the last half-inch of edge. Interesting nose, not really wood-smoky, not really wet paper, not really briar or spice or sharp berry or barnyard… kind of a coffee-ground, newsprint…

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Modern Metrics Totally transparent ruby with a wide pink edge. A nose of beautiful briar, weedy stem, tomato fuzz and hot phone-book chocolate-turtle fruit.

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Old Dominion Medium ruby with a thin clear rim. THE most effusive dirty baby diaper green poopy loveliness comes crashing out of the glass, raspy with graphite, rubber band and a peaty-blackberry smoothie.

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Oh Sherry

This is a fascinating range of jerez imported and I BEG you to go to alexander-jules.com and read the full specs. I’m not exactly a stranger to sherry, but this shit gets ridiculously technical in relation to provenance. Fascinating stuff–but geeky. We all know what solera is, but it gets further divided into scales and clasesand even the location of the barrels selected–top, bottom, close to…

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