Auction Winners!
MetroWines and Quench offer Charities an Auction item for Fundraising Events.
The Action item is a Lux Lunch on Saturday at Quench!
including a Wine Tasting with a Metro Wines Sommelier and dishes
paired by Chef Sam Etheridge for a table of 8.
The winner chooses the wine theme for the event.
Previous winners have chosen Italian Reds, Little Known Wines Everybody Loves,
and last, week, the theme was all Pinot Noir from around the world. (The table choice is below!)
Request an Auction item: Call John at 828-575-9525!
And the Winner at the Table?
Amelie & Charles Sparr “Carpe Diem” Alsace Pinot Noir 2023
Charles is the 12th generation of the Sparr family, which dates back to the 12th century and has Scandinavian roots. In 2007 the Pierre Sparr brand and company were sold to the Cooperative of Beblenheim, but Charles Sparr kept 12 hectares of vineyards. Sparr completed his studies in oenology and marketing and then worked for two years in Napa at Pernod-Ricard; he came back to Alsace in 2010 and worked the family vineyards, starting the conversion over to biodynamic agriculture. Charles met his wife, Amelie, in 2010 at a wine fair and they decided to work together and create a new wine estate. The Amelie & Charles Sparr estate was founded in 2017. All grapes vinified from Sparr vineyards.
This wine? Complex floral and rooty nose. This medium-bodied Pinot Noir is not enormously concentrated, but has wonderful textural complexity and finely-nuanced sour cherry fruit. Cranberry freshness at the crisp and delicate finish. A cuvee of wines from the Altenbourg and Rosenberg sites. Matured in Stockinger barrels with 0% new oak. From bio-dynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. Drink or hold.