Greetings!
Whether or not you like to tune in at midnight and watch the ball drop in Times Square, it's essential not to drop the ball on great bubbly when ringing in the New Year. We're stocked up with sparklers of all shapes, sizes, and colors from around the world. In addition to featuring five of our favorites at this week's free Saturday tasting, we'd like to take a moment here to present you with some great spritzy and sparkling ideas to consider for your festive New Year's toasts and tipple. Click on any of the wines below for more information.
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"La Creme de la Creme"
We'd give you the shirts right off our backs!
Well, perhaps we wouldn't give them too you, but we'd certainly be thrilled to see you giving them as gifts or wearing them! We're all stocked up on both our break out hits, "Durham: Crunchy on the Outside" and "Farmers not Factories" tees for stuffing stockings or gettin' extra swanky at holiday parties. Don't leave your friends standing, confused, clutching a cold fruit cake between their mittens this holiday season when it would be much more exciting to give them something fun to wear! $15.99 - Durham: Crunchy on the Outside (Blue or Red)
- Wine From Farmers Not Factories (Brick or Cement)
Sizes: Small, Med, Large, X-L, 2X-L
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Holiday Hours
We will keep our regularly scheduled hours on
New Year's eve (10am-7pm) and will be
closed on January 1st, 2nd, & 3rd.
Real Customer Comment:
"I haven't gotten a bad bottle of wine or a headache since I've been shopping here."
- Patricia B.
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"Scaia" Great Values from Verona's Tenuta Sant'Antonio
From the Castagnedi brothers of Valpolicella's Tenuta Sant'Antonio come two stupendous values for helping take the edge off what seems like the inevitable post-holiday budgeting phase. Enjoy!
Many may remember Armando Castagnedi (pictured above on the left) from his visit this October. He and his brothers are champions of Valpolicella and Soave, focusing their expertise and passion not only into high-end wines for special occasions but also into tremendous values. Their "Scaia" rosso and bianco are two such values, both clocking in at the daily price range and filled with bright flavorful energy. Click on the links below for more information.
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This Saturday from 12 to 3 PM
"try before you buy" at
our FREE tasting
The New Year provides us with what is simply one of many possible excuses for popping a delicious bottle of sparkling wine, but it remains the holiday in which Champagne & co. are allowed to bask in the limelight. To celebrate bubbly as well as the advent of a shiny new twelve-month set, we've selected not four but five of our favorite sparklers to share with you this Saturday. Yes, there'll be Champagne, Cava, Cremant, and more, decked out in both classic white and elegant pink! Prepare to round things out with a close encounter of the sweeter kind in the form of a lovely Moscato d'Asti. Cheers!!!
(WEEKLY WINE™ $12 to $19.99)
Mas Codina
Cava Brut Rosado
{organic} 100% Pinot Noir
(Pened�s, Spain)
MINERALLY WHITE CHERRY & BRIGHT RED PLUM, DELICATE TEXTURE, LOVELY ACIDITY By law, all Cava must be produced utilizing a secondary fermentation in the bottle - "M�thode Champenoise," but few in this price range warrant such close comparison to the singularly elegant wines of Champagne as this delicate and keenly generous ros� from our friends at Mas Codina. Bright, restrained, and...
On Sale $14.99 [Full description]
(MONTHLY WINE™ $20-$49.99) Laetitia Brut Ros� 2007 {sustainable} 100% Pinot Noir (Arroyo Grande Valley, California)
BRIGHT STRAWBERRY & SOFT CRANBERRY, ETERNAL EFFERVESCENCE Laetitia presents us with another stunning value in domestic bubbly. An almondy toasted nose supports spicy red fruit aromas. The estate planted their Pinot Noir vines, employed in this luxurious and very Champagne-like Ros�, back in 1982. Today they yield...
On Sale $29.99 [Full Description]
(MONTHLY WINE™ $20-$49.99) R. Dumont & Fils Champagne Brut Tradition 80% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay (Champagne, France)
SOFT, SAVORY BERRY, MINERAL, FLORAL, LIVELY In the southern Aube region of Champagne, we find two Dumont brothers continuing to work their vines the way their family has for over 200 years. The unique soils of this area are kimmeridgian chalky clay, similar to that of Chablis. The soft mousse and delicate aromas of roasted nuts are the...
On Sale $29.99 [Full Description]
(WEEKLY WINE™ $12 to $19.99)
Cave Freudenreich
Cremant d'Alsace
{sustainable} Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Pinot Noir (Alsace, France) BRIGHT LEMON & GRANNY SMITH, MINERAL & FLORAL NOTES, DELICATE HONEY Coming to us from Alsace, quite possibly the origin of France's most haunting and ephemeral whites, this firmly flavorful and brilliantly bright Cremant strikes a very satisfying balance between powerful fruit character and the interweaving of mineralistic and floral complexities.... On Sale $19.99 [Full description]
(WEEKLY WINE™ $12 to $19.99)
Elio Perrone
Moscato d'Asti
100% Moscato (Piemonte, Italy) DELICATE MOUSSE, SWEET AND SEXY WITH MELON, PEACHES AND FRESHNESS Former motocross racer, Stefano Perrone, is considered THE benchmark Moscato producer! His is one of the freshest you will ever taste and, despite all its fame, production remains moderate. Sparkly and bright, this is... On Sale $18.99 [Full description]
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Six for Sixty deal!
Here's our deal this month; a package of six reds or six whites for $60 plus tax. You can double down and buy two: one of each or two of one for $110 plus tax. Sorry, no other discounts apply.
Show me the six REDS
Show me the six WHITES
[click links to see this month's selection!]
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on the Enomatic:
Here's what's on tap, subject to change on a whim or fancy
Whites (48˚F):
Dr. Heyden
Riesling Halbtrocken [1-Liter!]
$15.99 on sale
Eric de Suremain
Rully Blanc 1er Cru
$31.99 on sale
Perazzeta
Bianco
"Sara"
$15.99 on sale
Tenuta Sant'Antonio"Scaia" Bianco Garganega/Chardonnay $11.99 on sale
Reds (65˚F): Ehlers Merlot $48.99 on sale Chateau Barraillots Margaux $35.99 on sale Chateau La Colombi�re Fronton Rouge "R�serve" $14.99 on sale
Calogiordano Cerusuolo di Vittoria $17.99 on sale Fracastel Douro Tinto "Lua Nova $11.99 Poderi Elia Barbera d'Asti $16.99 on sale Domaine Le Garrigon
Vin de Mediterran�e Rouge $10.99 on sale Chateau Lusseau Graves Rouge "Cuv�e Barriques" $27.99 on sale
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Artisan Bacon Nodine's North Country Farmhand Foods Vande Rose Farms |
Farmhand Foods
Fresh Local Sausages
- Bratwurst
- Country Breakfast
- Spicy Italian
- Smoked Polish
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Big Spoon
Roasters
Local peanut butters
8oz Jar - $8.00 16oz Jar - $12.00
or...
- Peanut Cashew
- Peanut Almond
- Penut Pecan
8oz Jar - $10.00
16oz Jar - $15.00
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Counter Culture Coffee
- Espresso Rustico
- Farmhouse Blend, Equador & Peru
- Nueva Armenia, Guatemala
- Jagong, Sumatra
- Las Milpas Decaf, Mexico
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