Greetings! 
Al Fresco with Scratch! 
Sipping great wines in the warm glow of the setting sun overlooking the Duke Gardens while an amazingly talented chef prepares a spread of mind-blowing food is a seasonal highlight of the springiest kind. Let's do it again! This time, we're teaming up with Phoebe Lawless of Scratch for our second al fresco picnic in the astounding Discovery Garden. The menu will be a four-course Mediterranean- styled meal served family style, with wines picked and poured by your friendly neighborhood Wine Authorities. Make a reservation today! Details below!
The Food: Prepared by the renowned Phoebe Lawless and her staff from Scratch Bakery and Café. Phoebe has been written about by the NY Times, Bon Appetit, Southern Living and Food & Wine, among others. She was also a finalist for the 2013 James Beard Best Baker award and referred to as a "wizard" by the Indy.
The Wine: Wine Authorities showcases the estate wines from wineries that grow all of the grapes that go into the wine. Simply put, estate wine producers are as much farmers as they are winemakers. A trip to Wine Authorities always means learning something new about the wines you enjoy.
Thursday, May, 22nd @ 6:30 pm Sarah P. Duke Gardens Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden 420 Anderson St, Durham, NC 27708 Fee: $90 (Gardens members $70) Participant limit: 40 Pre-registration required at 919-668-1707
Read All About It!
In case you missed it, that most vaunted fourth estate instrument, The News & Observer, recently ran a great piece about Wine Authorities and our new Raleigh location. Don't worry, there's no need to dig through the recycling; you can read it here.
And while you're perusing print journalism on the internet, go to Durham Magazine's site and vote Wine Authorities for best wine store. Vote for your other favorite local businesses too!
Durham Magazine's "Best of Durham" 
And a reminder:
Indy's 2014 Best of The Triangle!
Vote for all your favorite local businesses!
(including "Local Wine Shop" in case
you have Wine Authorities in mind, hint, hint)
Don't let the corporate chains beat your favorite local places! Be sure to vote!
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Rosé Sale:
20% Still off ALL Still Rosé!
That's right, baby. There's still time to save with our annual springtime rosé sale, and it's real, real nice...  Yes, the time has come for us to dust off our garden shears (and garden gnomes) in preparation for the monumental marvel of landscape architecture which is the Rosé Garden. Just thinking about it instills in us an almost unquenchable thirst for this noblest of pink drinks! Though it's not yet quite time for the Garden, we have a host of wonderfully vibrant rosés in stock to choose from at a deep discount. All still rosé is 20% off for a limited time, so enjoy and celebrate the arrival of spring!
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This Tuesday, April 15th, we present our FREE
midweek wine tasting. Every Tuesday is tasty!
Austria's superstar grape, Grüner Veltliner, has always known how to strike a balance between the immediate appeal of its refreshing drinkability and the complex elegance of its increasingly world-famous minerality. This combination is like an intricate (and very groovy) tie dye - all of the wine's intricacies swirling together. Join us this Tuesday as we begin in the varietal's native central Europe before chasing it to opposite corners of the globe: the Edna Valley of California and New Zealand's Nelson. It's groovy.
And don't forget
Our Tasty Tuesday 15% Half-Case Discount!
After you taste, put together 6 bottles from our Tasty Tuesday lineup, and we'll take an entire 15% off!
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This Saturday from 12 to 3 PM
in Durham & Raleigh
"try before you buy" at
our FREE tasting
The Wines of Austria
What's red & white, green & blue, and delicious all over? Follow the dancing grapes (pictured above with name tags featuring their initials) to Austria's eastern borders. It's along this crescent shaped divide that we'll find the nation's revered wine producing regions. Beginning in Kamptal with the grape most fitting to open a tasting of Austrian wines, Grüner Veltliner, we'll make our way southward into Wagram for a delicious dry Riesling and Burgenland for a Zweigelt-dominated red blend as well as a spicily-perfumed example of the quintessentially central European red Blaufränkisch grape. Prost!
Steininger
Grüner Veltliner
100% Grüner Veltliner
(Kamptal, Austria)
CHISELED MINERALITY, ZESTY LIME, ELEGANT
Best known for its elegant and powerful sparkling wines which rival top-knotch champagne, Weingut Steininger consistently produces profound wines with exemplary purity and focus. Karl, the estate's...
Anton Bauer
Riesling 2011
"Berg"
100% Riesling (Wagram, Austria)
TART & DRY WITH LIME, PINEAPPLE & WHITE PEPPER
Anton Bauer makes the very best value wines of Austria. Impeccably made in the Wagram region, they are rich, precise, elegant and typical of their homeland. This dry Riesling has blazing acidity, bold, aromatic fruit, and great complexity. Renowned for...
{biodynamic} 60% Zweigelt, 30% Blaufränkish, 10% Sankt Laurent (Burgenland, Austria)
DYNAMIC, ELEGANT & FRESH.
CHERRY & RASPBERRY
Werner and Angela Michlits run the wine side of the family farm. Their farm is a true biodynamic universe. Their Burgenland Red Blend is all-get-out drinkin' wine. With sexy fruit aromas like a firm berryish perfume, the raspberry and cherry fruit gushes from the glass but remains dry and tasty...
Hillinger
Blaufränkisch 2011
{organic} 100% Blaufränkisch (Burgenland, Austria)
BLACK RASPBERRY & LINGONBERRIES, PEPPERY MINERAL, SANDALWOOD
As handsome and sturdily-built as former Hugo Boss model turned Austrian wine visionary, Leo Hillinger, this Blaufränkisch has the intense purple fruit and spice which have been admired in the varietal for at least a thousand years. Quintessentially Central European, Blaufränkisch is among the most...
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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
in Durham: 
Here's what's on tap, subject to change on a whim or fancy
Whites (48˚F):
Domaine Chiroulet
Cotes de Gascogne Blanc
"La Cote d'Heux"
$16.99 on sale
Campanhia das Lezirias
Tejo Branco
"Samora"
$7.99 on sale
Chateau de Brézé
Saumur Blanc
$17.99 on sale
Domaine Serol"Cabochard" Rosé $13.99 on sale
Reds (65˚F): Domaine Saint Just Saumur Champigny "Montée des Roches" $34.99 on sale Mas de Libian Cotes du Rhone "Khayyam" $19.99 on sale Domaine Pinchinat "Venus Rouge" $10.99 on sale Abbaye Sylva Plana Faugères
"Les Novices" $17.99 on sale Plantamura Primitivo "Rossa" $14.99 Castello di Verduno Verduno "Basadone" $25.99 on sale
Anton Bauer
Zweigelt "Feursbrunn" $14.99 on sale Domaine Vissoux Beaujolais Nouveau $12.99 on sale
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on the Enomatic
in Raleigh:
Here's what's on tap, subject to change on a whim or fancy
Whites (48º F):
Terrasses d'Eole
Ventoux Blanc
$12.99 on sale
Domaine Pinchinat
"Venus Blanc
$10.99 on sale
Domaine Mirail
Cotes de Gascogne Blanc
Colombard
$11.99 on sale
Meinklang
Pinot Gris
"Graupert"
$17.99 on sale
G.M. Machmer
Gewürztraminer
Spätlese
$15.99 on sale
Tegernseerhof
Riesling
"Loibenberg"
$33.99 on sale
Domaine Herbauges
Muscadet Vieilles Vignes
"Le Legendaire"
$23.99 on sale
WellingtonChardonnay $15.99 on sale Reds (65º F): Fracastel Douro Tinto "Lua Nova" $11.99 on sale Bodegas Tempore Garnacha Joven "Terrae" $10.99 on sale Bodegas Los Frailes Monastrel $9.99 on sale Hyatt Vineyards Syrah $11.99 on sale Ancient Peaks Merlot $19.99 Stolpman Vineyards Syrah $26.99 on sale
Pulenta
Malbec "I" $28.99 on sale Anton Bauer Zweigelt "Feuersbrunn" $14.99 on sale Meinklang "Burgenlandred" $13.99 on sale Chateau Bel Air Sant Estephe $41.99 on sale Domaine Le Garrigon Rhone Rouge "Vin de Méditerranée" $10.99 on sale Domaine du Vissoux Beaujolais Nouveau
"Pierre Charmette" $12.99 on sale Domaine du Vissoux Beaujolais Nouveau "Vieilles Vignes" $13.99 Marcel Giraudon Bourgogne Rouge Chitry Pinot Noir $17.99 on sale
Fattoria Rodano
Chianti Classico Riserva $34.99 on sale Carussin Barbera d'Asti "Asinoi" $16.99 on sale
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Firsthand Foods
Fresh Local Sausages
- Bratwurst
- Country Breakfast
- Spicy Italian
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 Artisan Bacon Nodine's North Country Firsthand Foods Vande Rose Farms |
Crackers
Granola
Spreads
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Big Spoon
Roasters
Local peanut butters
8oz Jar - $9.99
16oz Jar - $16.99
or...
- Peanut Cashew
- Peanut Almond
- Penut Pecan
- Chai Spice (8oz size only)
8oz Jar - $12.99
16oz Jar - $17.99
8oz Jar - $13.00
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Counter Culture Coffee
- Rustico
- Farmhouse Blend, Equador & Peru
- Tsheya, Congo
- Baroida Late Harvest, Papua New Guinea
- Remera, Rwanda
- Espresso Toscano
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- Community supported farms & entrepreneurs.
- Socially & financially underutilized urban land.
- Healthy neighborhoods & thriving markets.
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