I was not expecting that...

01.22.2021

2019 Maison Ventenac "Le Paria"

Release Price: $20.00 winestore. Price: $12.99 (net) SAVE 35% Lowest Online Price in the USA! We continue to recommend using our website (HERE) and choosing in store / curbside pickup, and we will walk your order out and place it in your car. What's up with the photo, right? So back in December when this wine arrived in the US for the first time, we told you we thought it was going to be one of our best selling wines of 2021. I told you that my wife did not even believe this was $12.99 when I told her how much it cost, and that we thought this was a dead ringer for high end Burgundy. One thing I did not expect though was when I was flipping through my favorite wine magazine, Decanter, a few nights ago it would be featured in their "Top Wines of the Year". I'm not really big into lists and such, but they put Le Paria in some pretty good company. As you can see in the photo above, they put Le Paria right in the mix between wines that cost $132, $69, and $89 (and that's just on their page. It was their best red value selection in their top 30 reds. It is also the least expensive wine on their entire list! (their full review below) We said in December "we pride ourselves on trying to find extreme values here at winestore., but this one is potentially in a league all its own"...and maybe it was just kinda nice to see that others seem to agree :) Le Paria hails from the Cabardés region inside Languedoc, and a little town called Ventenac, in the rolling foothills of the Pyrenees. For France, this is warm climate viticulture though it is not so different from the southern Rhone Valley climatically speaking. In general, the Languedoc doesn't cool off in the same manner as the Rhone but Grenache is happily at home in such a sunny place. And the family is invested not only in their historical sites and vines on the side of Montagne Noire but also in sustainable viticulture (they’re members of Terra Vitis - link HERE). The vineyard is free of chemical inputs and the wine has no added sulfites; it’s aged only in traditional concrete tanks. TGIF people! I know what I'm drinking tonight! To order you can: E-mail us HERE Call ahead for IN STORE / CURBSIDE PICKUP: Call CAMERON VILLAGE @ 919-747-9077 Call CHAPEL HILL @ 984-234-0446 Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479 Call MORRISVILLE @ 919-694-5028 Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024 Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944 Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662