{"id":9595,"date":"2012-07-31T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=9595"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:01:28","slug":"patrizi-barolo-benmarco-cabernet-sauvignon-mcmanis-family-vineyards-viognier-best-cellar-wines-in-lcbo-vintages-release-august-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/patrizi-barolo-benmarco-cabernet-sauvignon-mcmanis-family-vineyards-viognier-best-cellar-wines-in-lcbo-vintages-release-august-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrizi Barolo, Benmarco Cabernet Sauvignon, McManis Family Vineyards Viognier: Best Cellar Wines in LCBO Vintages Release August 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Gaby Israel<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my best cellar wines list<\/strong><\/a> for this release as a shopping list that you can print.<\/p>\n

Italy \u2013 Piedmont \u2013 2008 Patrizi Barolo<\/strong><\/a> (653527) – $23.95
\nBarolo for $24? My #1 choice for this Aug 4th release. The Manfredi Family has a long history with wine. In the Second World War, they delivered wine by wagon. 2008 was an outstanding vintage in Piedmont – RP rated it 93 indicating that the wines are age worthy.<\/p>\n

Argentina \u2013 Mendoza \u2013 2004 Cicchitti Gran Reserva Malbec<\/strong><\/a> (155713) – $21.95
\nMy #2 choice of this release. Yuval, this wine is for you \u2013 from the reviews I have done, it\u2019s seems like this is the Malbec to beat.\u00a0 RP gave it a very respectable 92 indicating a long term cellaring (until 2025), which gives it a great GPCi.<\/p>\n

United States \u2013 California – 2011 McManis Family Vineyards Viognier<\/strong><\/a> (658112) – $18.95
\nAn absolute \u2018must\u2019 to everyone who likes Viognier. I\u2019ve been having these wines for the past few years and it\u2019s consistently good value.<\/p>\n

Argentina \u2013 Mendoza \u2013 2010 Benmarco Cabernet Sauvignon<\/strong><\/a> (232637) – $17.95
\nI have been recommending the Benmarco Malbec for the past couple of years. The Cab Sauv shouldn\u2019t be any different. – Benmarco seems to produce high quality wines for a very fair price. RP gave this wine 90 indicating a medium cellaring potential (until 2017).<\/p>\n

Italy \u2013 Tuscany \u2013 2009 Castellani Filicheto Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/strong><\/a> (184937) – $17.95
\nWhen a Vino Nobile di Montepulciano from the great 2009 vintage in Tuscany is offered for $18 (usually $25+) and it gets 92 by RP, I say \u201chere is your new House Wine\u201d. I\u2019d buy 2-12 bottles.<\/p>\n

Spain \u2013 Rioja – 2001 Burgo Viejo Gran Reserva<\/strong><\/a> (190611) – $21.95
\nBodegas Burgo Viejo was founded in 1987 by six families of farmers. This wine is a 100% Tempranillo that was matured in French oak barrels for 24 months. Decanter gave this Gran Reserva the highest 5 stars rate. For $22 you won\u2019t find many 11-year old wines with similar high quality. A great buy for the Spanish wine lovers, like me.<\/p>\n

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Gaby Israel<\/strong><\/a> has been providing wine tasting notes and buying recommendations for several years now.<\/p>\n

The name WineGPCi (pronounced Wine Gypsy) was given by his friends. GPCi stands for Gaby\u2019s Potential Cellaring Index. While searching for \u201ctreasures for the cellar\u201d without going to the bank, the GPCi was initially used to calculate the ratio between the price of the wine and the number of years it can potentially be cellared for; trying to find the wines that had the smallest index\/ratio possible.<\/p>\n

Any good wine that had a GPCi of 3.5 and under, was worth buying (mainly if you were planning to develop a cellar). Many years and \u201c750 bottles in the cellar\u201d after, his knowledge, experience and passion continued to grow. He continues to focus on helping the consumer finding \u201clogical\u201d ways of buying wines and planning the budget for it.<\/p>\n

His great passion for wine revolves around old-world wines such as Spain, France and Italy while experimenting the new world exciting regions of Chile, Argentina, Australia, Canada, the United States and others.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Posted with permission of the LCBO.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Gaby Israel Here\u2019s my best cellar wines list for this release as a shopping list that you can print. Italy \u2013 Piedmont \u2013 2008 Patrizi Barolo (653527) – $23.95 Barolo for $24? My #1 choice for this Aug 4th release. The Manfredi Family has a long history with wine. In the Second World War, they delivered wine by wagon. 2008 was an outstanding vintage in Piedmont – RP rated it 93 indicating that the wines are age worthy. Argentina \u2013 Mendoza \u2013 2004 Cicchitti Gran Reserva Malbec (155713) – $21.95 My #2 choice of this release. Yuval, this wine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,62,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaby-israel","category-lcbo-vintages-release","category-wine-picks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9595"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57561,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions\/57561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}