Further surprises at Whole Foods
I know I have written about the wine selection at Whole Foods on numerous occasions. What can I say? I go there for the turkey and the juice.
Tonight, I was back at Whole Foods in Bellevue, a city that vainly tries to charge for off-street parking and that has a California Pizza Kitchen (which means the city has arrived). It’s only natural that Whole Foods would thread one of its all-natural vegan tendrils into this community, I guess.
Anyway, I noticed a few really interesting bottles of wine for sale tonight, all at extremely high prices:
- 2004 Hirsch Pinot Noir - sacré bleu! What is this fabulous wine doing at $60/bottle at Whole Foods? I wanted to shoplift all of their bottles.
- 2004 Alexandria Nicole Lemberger - once again, this rare wine (55 cases) make an astoundingly out of place appearance for $30/bottle. Only one was present, though.
- Cristal Rosé, only $350/bottle.
- Assorted Broadley and Flowers Pinot Noirs - interesting stuff.
Actually, I guess the overall quantity of surprising wine wasn’t very large. Really I was surprised by the Hirsch. I mean, damn, that wine outclasses everything else under $100/bottle and I’d pit it against many of the more expensive wines in the store. It’s that good. It’s also sold out at the winery and I’m sad I don’t have any more tucked away somewhere.
On a positive note, I did get the chance to trade e-mails with David Hirsch, who is an incredibly nice guy. I’d love to meet him someday and hear more about his vineyards, his approach to wine-making, and so on. I’d also like to find a few magnums of Hirsch wine in my cellar, but first I’d need a cellar, eh?