12/20/2024
GIFT IDEA #2: Flowercup Tasting Box ($150–$170 for six bottles)
Our Friday night tastings, where we pop open the most notable new arrivals, are always crowded. But not everyone is free to attend. Now you can let a loved one participate vicariously with a Tasting Box. Every month we’ll pack up six bottles featured at recent tastings, along with informative notes about the wines. The boxes will include a mix of reds, whites, sparkling wines, and the occasional sake, vermouth, or hard cider. Feel free to ask for substitutions if a particular category is not welcome. You can order a single Tasting Box or a subscription. The price of each box is the total of the retail prices of the wines minus ten percent.
December 2024 Tasting Box ($157.23 before tax) includes a sparkling rosé from Touraine, France, made with gamay; an earthy, umami-packed Greek red made with an indigenous grape, mavrodaphne; a glowing falanghina (white wine) from Campania, Italy; a Tuscan red made with the rare grape vermentino nero; and a red and a white from a winemaker in Manchuela, Spain, who works to rescue obscure native grapes, like bobal, from extinction.
