Compline Wine Club - Monthly Shipment
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Join our Monthly Wine Club and drink like a pro.
Over 200 of Napa’s top winemakers, sommeliers, and wine drinkers are already members of our club. Now we’re taking it national—and you are getting the first opportunity to join!
What do you get with this monthly subscription?
Two wines that drink deliciously right now, selected by Compline’s veteran sommelier team. These are small production wines that will reward curious palates, exploratory wine drinkers, and anyone who likes great wine!
You can choose to receive wines from our backyard (Napa and Nearby) or an assortment of wines from all over the globe.
You get to see the wine selections before you commit every month, skip a month when you want, and cancel anytime.
So c'mon: join our club!
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February international selections:
Pinot Blanc, Schäfer-Frohlich “S” 2022
(Nahe, Germany)
The Nahe is a small region, as German wine regions go, of rolling hills and mixed agricultural use, just south of the storied Rheingau. In this small region, Schäfer-Frohlich has an outsized reputation! In a country known for centuries-old wineries, this one is relatively youthful. The family-run Schäfer-Frohlich got its start in 1970, and Tim Fröhlich has been making the wines since 1995—the year he turned 21!
Well-known for pristine Riesling, Schäfer-Frohlich makes one of our favorite Pinot Blanc bottlings in Germany. The “S” comes from 50-year-old vines in Bockenau, grown on red slate. It’s a dry, focused, zesty, laser-like version of Pinot Blanc, made without malolactic fermentation.
Pinot Noir, Meyer-Näkel “Estate” 2022
(Ahr Valley, Germany)
In the 1980s, Meyer-Näkel brought Germany out of the dark ages of Pinot Noir and into the modern era. Before Meyer-Näkel brought Burgundian techniques to German Pinot production, many of the country’s reds were semisweet and rosé-like in color. Meyer-Näkel’s Werner Näkel emphasized dryness, longer macerations, green harvesting, and French oak aging—techniques borrowed from Burgundy—and started a revolution in quality for Germany’s most planted red variety.
Located in the village of Dernau in Germany’s Ahr Valley, Meyer-Näkel produces Pinot Noir on slate soils north of the 50th parallel, in Europe’s northernmost red-wine growing region.
The winery was destroyed when devastating flash floods hit the region in the summer of 2021. Dörte and Meike Näkel, Werner’s daughters, almost lost their lives in the torrent that swept through the Ahr, taking stone bridges and whole villages with it. Today, they’ve relocated their winery to the top of the hill and are making their best wines ever. The 2022 Estate Pinot Noir is as elegant as it gets, and a tribute to their perseverance.