A & L Staff Picks

Happy Holidays from the Wine Castle Staff

Krug Grand Cuvee Champagne

Reg.: $249.99  Sale.: $99.99 (Save 70%)

95 points Wine Spectator: "A powerful, well-toned Champagne, featuring coconut, toast, grapefruit and coffee aromas and flavors. There are plenty of bass notes, punctuated by crisp acidity, and it all comes together on the fine texture with an aftertaste of roasted hazelnut and coffee. Drink now through 2014."

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Artemis Cabernet

Reg.: $69.99  Sale.: $39.99 (Save 40%)

A perennial favorite on restaurant wine lists, Artemis is generous in flavor and velvety in texture. Aromas of cassis and caramel rise and give way to earthy notes of black olive, black pepper, and truffles. Classic flavors of cassis and black cherry fill the mouth as notes of violets and vanilla linger on the finish.