Next up comes Michael, from Constantine Wine distributors, Gus Kalaris' company--Ellicott City's own wine genius (What? You've never heard of Gus? Oh, we are definitely going to have talk about him later.) Michael brings 5 real good wines but the stand out is Alberti 154, Malbec. Now first you might ask, as I did, what-the-Sam-Hill does "Alberti 154" mean? It turns out, it's the address in Mendoza, Argentina of the winery of the family owned company Bodega Elvira Calle. Now the Calle's (or whatever the family's name is) seem to have some OCD issues since they have taken the idea that pumping the wine from fermentation tank to barrel does some sort of violence to the wine to heart. The wine is never pumped it is only allowed to flow with gravity, a time consuming an expensive way to make wine. But what ever they are doing, it is working, because the wine is fabulous. It's big and chewy with a lot of extra earthiness which gives it an almost old world charm. At $14.99 this wine is definitely going into our underrated gems section.
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