This is our local club, designed for folks in and around Napa who like to pick up their wines in person.
What do you get with this monthly subscription?
Two wines that drink deliciously right now, ready for pickup on the 15th of each month. These are small production wines, often from other parts of the world, that will reward curious palates, exploratory wine drinkers, and anyone who likes good juice!
Typically, we choose one red and one white each month, but occasionally the mood strikes and we pick a rosé, orange wine, or sparkling wine too.
Yeah, but what perks do I get?
You become part of the Compline Club, which means...
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10% off all event tickets at Compline Wine Shop and Compline Restaurant. Use the promo code CLUB anytime you buy tickets to one of our events.
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Early access to our premium events. Club members skip the line and get in 30 minutes early for our most attended walkaround tastings!
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10% off all flights and glasses of wine at Compline Wine Shop. Come say hi! And get a discount on your glass.
- Zero corkage at Compline Wine Shop. Buy a bottle from us and drink it at the shop for the flat retail price.
- Flexibility: See the wines before committing, skip a month if you want, and cancel anytime
What's the catch?
None! We're flexible—we show you next month's selections before your charge goes through. Skip a month if you want, and cancel anytime. So c'mon: join our club!
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January selections:
Alsace Blanc, Marcel Deiss "Riquewihr" 2022
In Alsace blends represent the lowest rung on the totem pole in modern times. For centuries they've offered important representations of the region and protection against vintage vagaries, but today categories like Gentil and Edelzwicker that use multiple varieties are often the cheapest and least serious wines from most producers. Only 2 of the 51 Grand Crus in Alsace are permitted to blend varieties. Marcel's grandson Jean-Michel and great-grandson Mathieu march to the beat of their own drum, though. In the 80s Jean-Michel took over a vineyard in the Grand Cru Schoenenbourg with mixed plantings, and chose that approach as the way forward. He also believes 51 Grand Cru are too many, so self-classified 7 of his own vineyards as Premier Cru. Predictably, the INAO aren't members of the Deiss fan club.
We are, though, and this village bottling from Riquewihr in the Haut-Rhin exemplifies why. It's a mixture of co-planted Riesling and Pinot Gris from two vineyards and receives the could-only-be-French designation of sec tendre (tender dry) that allows for a drop of residual sugar. The wine drinks fiercely dry in its youth, and its body and framework of acidity promise a long shelf life. Biodynamically farmed and unabashedly Alsatian, the Deiss wines are standard bearers for what the future of Alsace looks like.
Rioja Reserva, Remelluri 2016
Telmo Rodríguez's motto is "the future lies in the past". Fitting words for a winery whose vineyards first produced wine in the 1300s. Named after a Count Erramel who founded a little village above the town of Labastida in modern Rioja Alavesa (uri is the Basque word for site- Erramel Uri became Remelluri), Telmo's parents purchased the property in 1967. Telmo studied winemaking in Bordeaux and worked for Trevallon and Chave before starting his own winemaking project in Rioja in the 90s. At the behest of their father, Telmo and his sister Amaia both returned home in 2009 to steward their family's property. Amaia studied cultural anthropology at Oxford and leads their viticultural pursuits while Telmo and his pal Pablo Eguzkiza make the wines.
Their Reserva bottling is simply one of the best examples of that style in a very big region. The 2016 is a blend of 83% Tempranillo, 10% Garnacha, 7% Graciano aged for 21 months in a mixture of French and American foudres and barriques. In the past we would never have been able to bring in the quantity needed to get a bottle to every club member, so when the opportunity presented itself we leapt headfirst. Enjoy!
