Every week we feature a different wine, giving you an opportunity to try something new, at a 10% discount (15% case discount) that week. This week’s wine, discount available until Sunday, October 18, 2009:

Paul Lehrner Blaufränkisch Gfanger Mittelburgenland DAC 2007

Regularly: $16.99
This week only: $15.29 per bottle - 10% off save $1.70
This week only case price: $173.30, $14.44 per bottle - 15% off save $30.58
Limited quantities available; discount not combined with other offers

Made from Austria’s own Blaufränkisch, this is a terrific wine for the cool autumn weather, with deep, rich flavors in an accessible package. The wine’s importer Terry Theise puts out a thorough and engaging book of the wines he represents. So here’s his take on Paul Lehrner: "... it’s been wonderful to watch Lehrner’s star rise ever higher in the Austrian press, especially in the current Gault-Millau, in which no other red-wine estate scores higher than does Lehrner. ... Lehrner’s style doesn’t require super-saturated ripeness. It’s an adult style of red wine emphasizing fruit over tannin and structure over everything else. This aesthetic doesn’t preclude concentration and it positively invites complexity. It does insist wine must be refreshing, not fatiguing... Wines which speak in moderate voices immediately compel my attention. ... He’s a vintner who wants, avowedly, to make "wines for drinking and not for winning awards." ... How often is red wine both light and dense, with enough flavor and length to fill its frame? Lightness doesn’t have to denote under-nourishment. It is sometimes precisely appropriate. ..." Of this Blaufränkisch, Theise writes, "Boy has this wine found itself over time; this is a second bottling, and an exceptional vintage and an unbelievable value. Lovely "sweet" aromas astride the varietal weediness; fine tannin and physio-ripeness; almost a Merlot plumminess with a lavish herbal-flowery spice, and a finish of carob."