Weekly Wine Bullets (May 9)

May 09, 2025

Happy Friday friends. Enjoy this week’s Wine Bullets.

No fancy dinners this past weekend as my wife and I moved into our new house. Instead I enjoyed sitting on the empty floor and drinking a bottle of Frederic Savart's L'Ouverture. Savart is a wine geek obsessed with terroir, and one of my personal favorite growers in Champagne. He’s gathered a cult following in the wine world, so the wines can sometimes be a bit tricky to find, but a quick internet search usually turns up a few bottles. His L’Ouverture bottling is 100% Pinot Noir — a fruit-forward and fuller bodied Champagne. Who needs furniture when the wine is this good?
Me and my buddy Wade drinking Savart on the floor. My wife (not pictured) probably off somewhere doing all the work.

Jamie Carragher getting caught with wine teeth on air. I’d have wine teeth too if I was watching one of the best Champions League semifinals in history alongside David Beckham and Stanley Tucci. If you missed the Inter Milan vs. Barcelona match please go watch the highlights.

ROCKMAN by Mk.gee, paired with this Bandol wine from Domaine de Terrebrune. Bandol is a subregion of Provence, famous for their aggressively bold and tannic reds in a region usually known for its rosé. These wines have an edge to them, just like Mk.gee’s distorted sound. This track pulls heavy influence from 80’s sounds (I get The Police vibes) which is perfect for a wine region heavily influenced by history and tradition. His SNL performance rips.

1967 Barolo horizontal — This was the best wine night I’ve had all year. Some friends and I put together a lineup of five Barolo’s from the legendary 1967 vintage. With wine this old (almost old enough to sign up for Social Security), the risk of a bottle being flawed, corked, or simply dead on arrival is pretty high, so we were lucky that all five were drinking very well, with the Conterno Monfortino and Borgogno as my personal standouts. But all of them were unique in their own way, and we really appreciated their differences. The Monfortino being wine of the night was kind of like the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl… a part of me was almost rooting for the underdogs. But sometimes you just have to appreciate greatness.

Charlie Fu on Corkage Etiquette - Occasionally I bring my own wine to restaurants. There are a few unspoken rules around that and this article sums it up well.

Cork Bandit