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Wine Shop at Foxcroft Newsletter Weekly Newsletter of Upcoming Events
Wednesday September 2nd, 2009
7824 Fairview Road Charlotte, North Carolina 28226
704-365-6550
"At the Wine Shop at Foxcroft we are committed to bringing you Charlotte's very
best selection of artisanal, small production, and naturally made wines
the world has to offer in a relaxed and inviting atmosphere."
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Southern Starz Best of Australia
Tutored Tasting
Tuesday September 8th, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM
Cost: $20.00
Special Guest: Lindy Lopez,
Fine Wine Trading Company
Come join us Tuesday Night, September 8th, for tasting of the Australian portfolio of Southern Starz, the largest importer of quality Southern Hemisphere wines. Our guest will be Lindy Lopez from Fine Wine Trading Company, the State's Southern Starz Distributor. It promises to be both enjoyable and informative and a great opportunity to sample some of the best that Australia has to offer. The Southern Hemisphere wine market grew as much as 50% in the United States last year. There has never been a better time as a consumer to take advantage of this affordable category. Sparkling cocktails will be served upon arrival. Here's the line up for the evening.
Reillys Barking Mad Riesling Nugan Visions Chardonnay Bleasdale Langhorn Crossing Chard-Riesling-Verdelho Sherwood Pinot Noir Ross Estate Lights Out Shiraz Waterwheel Bendigo Shiraz Nugan Visions Cabernet Tait Ballbuster Cabernet-Merlot-Shiraz Bleasdale Shiraz RL Buller Tokay RL Buller Tawny RL Buller Muscat 
RSVP to reserve your seats...
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$18.99 BOTTLE
It has reappeared...
Three distinctive varietals combine lush berry and fierce spice into a wine characterized by its incandescence. Deeply luscious and succulent blackberries ignite this vintage of our rich ruby apparition. Aromas of anise and sweet fig are embraced by touches of black pepper. From the shadowed dark depths, subtle notes of cloves and vanilla emerge and compliment the concentrated fruit characters of this wine. Captured in 1, 2 and 3 year old American oak barrels, this wine showcases the best these distinct varietals have to offer. Though this wine is remarkable now, age in the bottle will only integrate the three unique varietals more. Welcome the winery ghost into your home again with this latest vintage, and enjoy with full-flavored and hearty meals...before it vanishes again.
Constant-Duquesnoy
Vinsobres 2007
$22.99 bottle
The Domaine "Les Aussellons" is owned and operated by Gerard Constant and Denise Duquesnoy since 2004. With no previous winemaking experience, Belgian Gerard Constant quit his finance job and purchased a small parcel of land in the Southern Rhone Valley in order to fulfill his dream: owning a vineyard. He purchased land from a previous owner in the appellation of Vinsobres, formerly known as "Côtes du Rhône Villages-Vinsobres." The French authorities granted the village independent AOC status in 2005, so you will no longer see the words "Côtes du Rhône Villages" on the label. The 2007 vintage is blend of Grenache (75%) and Syrah (25%), leading off with a distinctly floral nose that's followed by a smooth and silky palate of red raspberries and crème de cassis. A theoretical "Southern Rhône meets Burgundy," the little-known area of Vinsobres AOC has been called "The North of the South" by several top Syrah producers of Hermitage.
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5:00 - 7:00 PM - Every Tuesday
Cost: FREE!
Come join us at the Wine Shop at Foxcroft this Winter every Tuesday evening for a free wine tasting from some of our favorite wine distributors. We'll be tasting an incredible array of wines from all over the world. Stop in on your way home from work. It's free and a lot of fun. As always there's special pricing on the wines of the evening.
Tuesday Sept 1st -
Gene Casey with Mutual Distributors
Tuesday Sept 8th - Southern Starz Tutored Tasting
Tuesday Sept 15th - Wines of the Pacific Northwest
Sept 22nd - Rosenthal Tutored Tasting
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Greetings!
LABOR DAY SALE!!!
15% Off Mixed and Matched Cases
The last fling of Summer is here once again and as all of you head out of town for one last trip to the beach and mountains we begin our annual labor day sale. You know it and love it and it's here again. All week long you have the opportunity to stock up for that beach trip, backyard cookout or just to restock your cellar. All wine is on sale starting WEDNESDAY through SATURDAY.
The Wine Shop at Foxcroft will be closed for Labor Day Monday September 7th.
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Neal Rosenthal Wine Merchant
Portfolio Tasting
Tuesday September 22nd 2009
Time:7:00 PM
Cost: $20.00 |
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"The Mad Rose Group is the corporate umbrella for a close-knit group of people who understand that wine is an agricultural product and that in its best and purest form wine must reflect a specific sense of place."Neil shares the goal of communicating this concept to an ever-increasing public by presenting the finest examples of wine made in this classical tradition. I'm actually composing the newsletter this week from the Char-Meck Superior Courthouse where I'm fulfilling my civic duty as a juror and have taken the time to read his book "Reflections of a Wine Merchant." A great read and inspiration to me in how I want to conduct business in wine.The objective for Neil from the outset was to work as directly as possible with growers who were dedicated to producing limited quantities of the finest quality wines and who shared the his passion for "terroir", that ephemeral "sense of place". Over the last 30 years he has assembled an amazing portfolio of winemakers from France and Italy. He along with a handful of other importers leads the charge to restore wine to it's rightful place and away from the marketing madness the wine world has become today
preferring to seek out other small sources of supply rather than work with a cooperative, negociant, or large commercial producer to keep the flow of wine coming.We're excited to bring Neil's portfolio to Charlotte with Trey Stephenson, Neil's SE Regional sales manager for a tutored tasting of the country's leading, 100% organic, 100% estate bottled wines.
Please call the shop to reserve your seats.
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THE SEPTEMBER FAB FIVE...
Centerba Selections &
The Wines of Louis Dressner
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Receive an additional 15% off when you buy a mixed or solid case these wines - on top of the regular bottle discount!
Wines Arrive on Thursday September 3rd.
"Louis/Dressner Selections is a portfolio of over 60 vignerons from the major wine growing regions of France and Italy.They are a partnership of Denyse Louis, a native Burgundian, Joe Dressner and Kevin McKenna. Collectively,they spend nearly nine months a year in Europe working with their growers and selecting wines for importation to America.They have no "brands." They are not looking for them. What they do have is a group of often fanatical growers who are doing their best to make wines that are original because they are honestly crafted. These might seem old-fashioned, but in the present context it is almost revolutionary....There are no gobs, no exaggerations, no over-this and over-that. We don't have fruit bombs. What we do have is a group of growers who work their vines and make their wines with honesty, passion and humor."
In that sense THE BRAND is the convergence of these crazy growers and their American importers. Working together to produce and market natural products that follow several principles:
Wild Yeasts
All wines are made with the natural yeasts on the grapes, in the vineyards and in the cellars. Cultured yeasts to rush fermentation or add "enhancing" aromas and flavors are unacceptable. They look for wines that express their terroir. No enzymes, no hormones.
Hand Harvesting
Growers harvest by hand, not machine. They want the ripest fruit to be brought carefully and lovingly into the winery.
Low Yields
The growers want low yields for greater concentration. They look for growers with holdings in old vines.
Natural Viticulture
They encourage growers to plow their vineyards to keep the soil an active eco-system, and to use natural methods in tending their vines.
No or Minimal Chaptalization
They do not want an artificially high degree of alcohol produced by adding sugar to the must. Non- or slightly chaptalized wines are more enjoyable and healthier to drink.
Non-Filtration
Wines are either not filtered or minimally filtered. We also encourage low levels of SO2.
Non-Interventionist Winemaking
They prefer a harmony, not an imposed style -wines should showcase their place of origin and varietal character. We are not looking for oak flavor, particular fruits or overly done aromatics. Minimal use of S02 is encouraged.
Quality Control
They taste at our growers several times before and after bottling before shipping wines. Where possible, we work with the vigneron to make special blends representing the very best wines in their cellar.
Enjoyment!
Lastly, their most important "principle." Because, the overblown world of overdone wines is fundamentally tiresome. they're not looking for tasting specimens, but for wines that are great fun, and a great pleasure to drink.
Clos Roche Blanche Sauvignon 2008 (Touraine, Loire Valley)
Reg. Price $20.99
Discount Price $15.99
Touraine, a Loire Valley appellation, designates a large viticultural area around the city of Tours. The vineyards of .JPG) Clos Roche Blanche were planted on the Touraine hills bordering the Cher river by the Roussel family at the end of the 19th century and have remained in the family since. They converted the vineyards to organic farming and, with the 1995 vintage, received the official "organic agriculture" accreditation. The vines are treated with copper and sulfur solutions, and plant decoctions (a mixture of nettles and other herbs) used in biodynamic viticulture. The grapes are hand-harvested and the Sauvignon Blanc is macerated for 48 hours. Neither Catherine or Didier has studied oenology or viticulture.They both learned their trade in the vineyards and the cellar, searching for methods and techniques to make wines of exceptional character in an appellation of modest reputation.The wine smells of fresh cut flower and lemon zest. The fruit is perfectly ripe without the feral aromas sometimes associated with Sauvignon Blanc, and there is a nice interplay between fruit and mineral with brisk acidity keeping everything in balance.
Baudry Chinon Rosé 2008
(Chinon, Loire Valley)
Reg. Price $17.99
Discount Price $14.99
Bernard Baudry is one of the newer stars of the Chinon scene. A graduate of the Lycée de Beaune, Baudry created  his 25-hectare estate out of family parcels and purchased land. He quickly rose to prominence in the appellation for precise, textured Chinon. Along with the wines of Domaine Joguet, Baudry is at the vanguard of a new approach to traditional Chinon: purity and extract. In A Wine & Food Guide to the Loire Valley (the most comprehensive guide to Loire Valley wines yet written), Jacqueline Friedrich writes, "My interest in Loire wines hadn't gone much further than the tasty "petits Chinons" I habitually drank in the wine bistros of Paris. In four days I changed my mind completely. Not only did my thirst grow for the mouth watering little Chinons, but I found the "serious' versions made by vignerons like Charles Joguet and Bernard Baudry exhilarating." Baudry's Chinon Rose is a pale salmon/orange tint with fresh stony aromas wafting from the glass. Firmly focused flavors of blood orange. "Pure, bracing and penetrating." This wine is all about minerality. Try it with shellfish or Ahi Tuna tartare.
Chateau de Oupia"Tradition" 2007
(Minervois, France)
Reg Price $13.99
Discount Price $11.99
Everyone talks about the new quality of wines from the Languedoc. For us, this doesn't mean the ubiquitous varietal bottlings from irrigated flat vineyards but the wonderful wines coming from the best hillside vineyard sites in AOCs like Minervois, Corbières and Coteaux-du-Languedoc. The Château d'Oupia is one of the best.
The Minervois Tradition is 60% Carignan (from vineyards up to 100 years old), 30% Syrah and 10% Grenache. It is aromatic, full and densely colored, with a long finish of dark fruits. The wine is elegant and balanced - it is both enjoyable to drink young and can age 5-7 years. dark berries and spicy aromas.Robert Parker has consistently praised this estate and rated the wine a "best buy." He wrote: "Château d'Oupia has produced the ideal bistro wine. Dark, ruby-colored, the wine is wonderfully clean and pure, with an exuberant personality, and gobs of rich, peppery, red and black fruit...Bravo to proprietor André Iché!"
D. Ventura Pena do Lobo 2007
(Ribeira Sacra, Galicia)
Reg Price $19.99
Discount Price $17.99
You may remember us featuring this wine a couple months back in our staff picks. With all of the hoopla in the NY Times about the Ribeira Sacra region and D. Ventura we
thought it would be fun to feature another wine from the producer. This is not a Louis Dressner Selection but it is 100% organic Mencia from Andre Tamers De Maison line, the spiritual cousin of Dressner and a damn good wine. Like the Vina Caniera except grown on granite soils. It received 90 points from Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar: "Medium red. Spicy red currant and rhubarb on the nose, with a fine mineral overlay. Tangy, focused red berry flavors benefit from nervy acid lift and show no noticeable tannins. Finishes with excellent precision and mineral grip, with no excess fat. I love this wine's elegance but suspect that some will find it austere. This is the polar opposite of Mollydooker."
Eric Texier Brezeme Rouge 2006
(Rhone Valley, France)
Reg Price $20.99
Discount Price $18.99
Eric Texier became a winemaker after a first career and without any family background in vines or wines. As such, his goals and methods developed not so much from his years of schooling, but from his readings, his visiting winemakers  around the world, and working in Burgundy with Jean-Marie Guffens at Verget. Like all good winemakers, Eric strongly believes that wines are made in the vineyard, and that his work, after the harvest, consists in following the lead of the vintage, and accompanying the wines so they fulfill their potential. Exact steps in vinification vary according to the varietals, terroirs and vintages, but the goal is always to provide the grapes, musts and wines with the best environment and intervene as little as possible.Eric began using biodynamics in the vineyard in 2001, and the first properly biodynamic vintage was 2003. 'My main concern was that I didn't want to use herbicides any more, so we had to buy all the equipment to plough with. This was the main obstacle to going to organics and biodynamics.' Shifting from organics to biodynamics was almost nothing in terms of investment, so I tried it, and I'm carrying on with it, but I'm not a biodynamic ayatollah.' According to Eric the difference between organics and biodynamics is very small. 'Once you don't use herbicides any more, the difference is in the preparations, which are very simple to use', he says.. He's Demeter and Ecocert certified, but doesn't use this on his labels.Brézème is a small, and at one point nearly forgotten, viticulture area located near the town of Livron-sur-Drôme about 18 kilometers south of Valence. Like Hermitage and Crozes-Hermitage, Brézème sits on the eastern bank of the Rhône and produces both red and white wine. In 1990, Éric became intrigued when reading about the little know region of Brézème in the 1880's book Les Grands Vins de France by Dr. Ramain. After exploring Brézème, Éric believed the steep, southward facing slopes of primarily limestone and clay had the potential to produce truly great Syrahs. His Brezeme Rouge is 100% Syrah and smells and tastes like a top-notch Côte-Rôtie except at a forth the price.
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At the Wine Shop at Foxcroft our goal is to provide you with Charlotte's best selection of quality wines and beers at competitive prices. Great service is what we strive for so if there's anything you're looking for: that difficult vintage, a special gift, whateve, don't hesitate to contact us with your requests. We look forward to seeing you in the shop...
Sincerely,
Conrad, Crystal, Alex and all the
Wine Shop at Foxcroft Staff
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