 Greetings!
First of all, Happy New Year! Thank you so much for another fantastic year. Our appreciation for your patronage bubbles over. Speaking of, we have tons of delicious bubbles of all kinds and prices to excite your tastebuds and kick off 2013 on the right foot!
Secondly...
Get to know the Kamptal's
Weingut Steininger!
This weekend, Austria's wonderful Weingut Steininger will be represented here in the Triangle by the estate's owners, husband and wife Karl and Brigitta. First, Brigitta will appear here in the shop to pour four of her family's wines during our weekly free Saturday tasting, from 12-3:00. That evening, she and Karl will join us at Guglhupf for a wine dinner beginning at 7:00! More information is below.
Guglhupf Wine Dinner
with Brigitta & Karl
This Saturday evening (January 5th) at seven, Brigitta and Karl Steininger will be presenting their elegant and very distinctive wines from Austria's Kamptal at an eagerly anticipated Guglhupf wine dinner accompanied, of course, by a specially-designed five course meal!:
Gruss aus der Küche
House cured salmon gravlax with a kohlrabi latke and herbed quark
"Young" 2011 | Grüner Veltliner blend
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Vorspeise
Rabbit two ways: braised bacon wrapped saddle and confit leg with local mâché and lingonberry sauce
Kamptal 2011 | Grüner Veltliner
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Zwischengericht
Slow roasted pork shoulder with braised napa cabbage and natural jus
"Loisium" Kamptal Reserve 2010 | Grüner Veltliner
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Hauptspeise
Salt crusted beef tenderloin with roasted local carrots and a light fine herb sauce
Kamptal Reserve Grand Grü 2011 | Grüner Veltliner
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Nachtisch
Cranberry and chêvre cheesecake with an orange cranberry compote and an almond sablé
Sekt 2010 | Grüner Veltliner
$55 per person
Reserve your seat today by calling Guglhupf:
(919) 401 - 2600
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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:
"Sometimes, I only buy six bottles at a time so that I can come back more often. We're very lucky to have you!" - Christine P.
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Tasty Tuesday!
"A Door to the Douro"
This Tuesday, January 8th, we present our mid-week FREE wine tasting. Every Tuesday is tasty! From 5:00 - 7:00, we host this bonus tasting of three wines to get you through the early week and land you safely on hump day!
 Portugal's Douro River Valley offers some of the most breathtaking scenery associated with the production of wine. It's famously steep terraced vineyards recall a beautiful alien landscape just waiting to be explored. Well, we'll explore them a bit at this week's Tasty Tuesday! After all, what better place might we hope to visit just as cold weather starts to dig in its heels than the origin of the wine world's quintessential winter warmer, Port? So, join us on the eighth as we sample two dry, unfortified Douro reds and a powerfully delicious Port guaranteed to put a bit of color back in your cheeks! And don't forget:
Tasty Tuesday 20%
Mixed Case Discount! After you taste, put together 12 bottles from our Tasty Tuesday lineup, and we'll take an entire 20% off!
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This Saturday from 12 to 3 PM
"try before you buy" at
our FREE tasting
 Join us this Saturday as we welcome a very special guest behind our tasting bar. Brigitta Steininger will be presenting four of her family's diverse yet simultaneously very specialized wines from Kamptal, Austria. This very Grüner-centric line up is bursting with elegance, minerality, flavor, and fun. We'll begin with an enormously crowd-pleasing white with which many of us are already very familiar, the estate's "Young." Next, we'll check out two stellar reminders of just why and how the Grüner Veltliner grape has taken the wine world by storm with increasing momentum throughout the course of the past decade. We'll finish on a very memorable note with an example of Weingut Steininger's most renowned specialty: fine Austrian sekt (sparkling wine, in this case made from the nation's star varietal, Grüner). Prost!
(DAILY WINE™ $11.99 or LESS)
Steininger
"Young" 2011
70% Grüner Veltliner,
20% Sauvignon Blanc, 10% Muscat
(Kamptal, Austria)
CRAZY GOOD BLEND. CRISP, FRUITY, ELEGANT & DRY
One of the wackiest people I know is an Austrian guy named Peter who completely reverses the stereotype of Germans and Austrians as serious, methodical types. I feel the
same way about this wine. As the generalization about...
On Sale $11.99 [Full description]
(WEEKLY WINE™ $12 to $19.99)  Steininger Grüner Veltliner 2011 100% Grüner Veltliner (Kamptal, Austria)
CHISELED MINERALITY, ZESTY LIME, ELEGANT
Best known for its elegant and powerful sparkling wines which rival top-notch champagne, Weingut Steininger produces consistently profound wines with exemplary purity and focus. Karl, the estate's proprietor, prefers that his wines showcase the...
On Sale $13.99 [Full Description]
(MONTHLY WINE™ $20-$49.99)  Steininger Grüner Veltliner 2011 "Grand Grü" 100% Grüner Veltliner (Kamptal, Austria)
JUICY WHITE STONE FRUIT, MINERALITY, POWER & ELEGANCE
Whites that seamlessly combine immense power and elegance are (partially because of the experience they provide and partially because of their rarity) among the world's most revered wines. This Grüner from the Kamptal of Lower Austria can count itself among...
On Sale $25.99 [Full Description]
(MONTHLY WINE™ $20- $49.99)
Steininger
Grüner Veltliner Sekt
100% Grüner Veltliner (Kamptal, Austria) CRISP APPLE & SWEET PEA, SMOKY MINERALS,
TANGY BUBBLES
Eva, the eldest of three daughters, is taking over the white wine and sekt (sparkling wine) making from her father, Karl. Her petite size belies the mouth-filling, gloriously delicious sparkling wines. They produce 8 different sekts, all from single... On Sale $29.99 [Full description]
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Our best to you,
Grand Poobah & the Wine Authorities staff
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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
Domaine Quenard
Chignin
$15.99 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 Colombičre Fronton Rouge "Réserve" $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 Mediterranée Rouge $10.99 on sale Chateau Lusseau Graves Rouge "Cuvée Barriques"
$27.99 on sale
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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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