Spring is in the air!
In This Issue:
Tasty Tuesday: A Pairing for... Pollen?
Saturday Tasting: Easterrific Ham 'n Lamb
 
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A-pollen-ocalypse!
   We all recognize this guy. He shows up every year around this time with billions of his friends to throw a party in our sinuses and gather in dense, pet-obscuring drifts. It's the annual en-pollen-ing, and it's pretty gross.
   But take it as a good omen, because it means that, despite a few strangely cold days here and there, spring has definitely arrived! Our next Tasty Tuesday, in fact, features supremely floral wines, so brave the yellow fog and come join us! Just keep your glass covered...
   We're also pouring wines on Saturday which take a cue from the quintessentially springy cuisine of a traditional Easter meal - specifically Ham 'n Lamb. But if Chicken is more your thing, well, we've got Chicken-friendly wines that are fit for a king. In fact, you might have to eat every chicken in the room...
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Closed Sunday
 
April 20th 
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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 Caf�. 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. 
   
The Setting: Sarah P. Duke Gardens, voted one of the top ten public gardens in the United States by TripAdvisor and awarded the 2013 Horticulture MagazineAward for Garden Excellence
 
 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 
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Francophile Fun

at Our Raleigh Shop! 

   Join us on Wednesday as we welcome author and expert on all things Proven�al Jo Maeder to our Raleigh location. Jo is a celebrated novelist whose work telegraphs a deep love of food and wine, so there's no better place to celebrate the release of her new novel Opposites Attack: A Novel with Recipes Provencal. Joining her will be Teresa Engebretsen a.k.a The Sabbatical Chef with samples of food from the book! There are prizes to be had as well; everyone who attends gets a raffle ticket, but wearing a beret gets you two. More details below!
 
Wednesday April 23rd 2014 
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Wine Authorities Raleigh 
211 E. Franklin St. 
Raleigh, NC 27604 

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Tasty Tuesday!
  If you can't beat 'em...
This Tuesday, April 22nd, we present our FREE
midweek wine tasting.  Every Tuesday is tasty!

5:00 - 7:00 pm
 
"Fragrantly Floral!"
or
"A Pairing for... Pollen?"
   Spring is in the air! And all over our cars. And in our eyes, ears, mouths, and noses. That's okay because it means that our strange, meandering winter is finally (probably?) over! At this week's Tasty Tuesday, we're buying into the old adage that "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" and throwing a welcome back party for the insurmountable yellow dunes which have recently become a fixture of our Carolinian topography. We've selected three supremely floral wines - an Argentine Torrontes with a magnolia-grade intensity and bright citrus, a voluptuous Alsatian Gewurztraminer with just a kiss of sweetness, and a berryishly violet Spanish Garnacha that smells like a bouquet of...well...violets!
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!
 

This Saturday from 12 to 3 PM
in Durham & Raleigh
"try before you buy" at
our FREE tasting
Ham 'n Lamb 
    Join us this Saturday as our tasting takes its cue from the trappings of traditional Easter feasts. Keep in mind, of course, that the wines we've selected have a much broader skill set than simply being served with ham and/or lamb, but they certainly do excel at it! We'll begin with a ros� as crisp, juicy, and versatile as they come. After all, despite what you might have been told, ham is not a "white meat." It's pink. It's only natural that we should drink some pink wine with it. Our second offering is a dry, tangy, youthful Riesling from Austria's lauded Wachau - a champion of a companion for every manner of savory red meat. A glorious Pinot Noir from California's Santa Lucia Highlands provides us with the afternoon's first red, and then we'll venture back to the Old World for a Grenache-based blend (or as our lamb-lovin' Aussie friends might say, a "GSM") that's lip-smackingly juicy enough for ham but with the sort of lamb-friendly Mediterranean spice and earth at which the Rhone Valley excels. Cheers!

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Anton Bauer 

Wagram Ros� 2013 

"Feuersbrunn" 

{sustainable} 34% Zweigelt,
33% Syrah, 33% Merlot   
(Wagram, Austria)
BRIGHT RED BERRY, ZIPPY, MINERALLY & CRISP
A fourth generation winemaker, Anton Bauer has a built a reputation for his exacting attention to detail while making traditionally-styled wines in the hills of Wagram. Dry, minerally, and floral with fruit character reminiscent of tangy red berries, and white cherry...
  

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Tegernseerhof
Riesling 2012
"Terrassen"

100% Riesling 

(Wachau, Austria)

LAZER DRY. PINEAPPLE, MANGO,
LIME & RICH MINERALITY

Get it before he becomes a superstar and his prices go through the roof. Martin Mittelbach is one of the greats right now, but his reputation has not hit the mainstream or the critics yet. This dry Riesling from his terraced, hillside vineyards in the prestigious Wachau is the kind of...
 

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Paraiso Pinot Noir
Paraiso
Pinot Noir 2010  

100% Pinot Noir 

(Santa Lucia Highlands, California)

DEEP AND SATISFYING, RICH AND FRUIT-FILLED
The Smith family has maintained their course in central California producing very California style wines for two generations. They are largely responsible for the Monterey region's rise to prominence and started out as grape farmers for...
 

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Mas de Libian 
Cotes du Rhone 2012
"Khayyam" 

{biodynamic} 80% Grenache,

10% Syrah, 10% Mourvedre 

(Southern Rhone, France)

RASPBERRY & CHOCOLATE,
GARRIGUES & EARTH

"Drink wine. This is life eternal," famously wrote the ever beauty-seeking Omar Khayyam, and 800 years later, his attitudes and observations resound with timelessness. The Thibon sisters of Mas de Libian have named this delicious cuv�e after the 12th century Persian poet and...
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Six for Sixty
deal!
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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!]

on the Enomatic
in Durham:
Enomatic
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 Br�z� 

Saumur Blanc 

$17.99 on sale

Domaine Pinchinat

Cotes de Provence Ros�

$13.99 on sale

 

Reds (65˚F):

 

Domaine Saint Just  

Saumur Champigny 

"Mont�e 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 
Faug�res
"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

 

on the Enomatic
in Raleigh:
Enomatic
Here's what's on tap, subject to change on a whim or fancy

Whites (48� 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

Gew�rztraminer

Sp�tlese

$15.99 on sale

 

Tegernseerhof

Riesling

"Loibenberg" 

$33.99 on sale

 

Domaine Herbauges 

Muscadet Vieilles Vignes 

"Le Legendaire" 

$23.99 on sale

Wellington

Chardonnay  

$15.99 on sale

 

 

Reds (65� 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 M�diterran�e" 

$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  

 

Firsthand Foods

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Fresh Local Sausages 

  • Bratwurst
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Artisan Bacon

 

Nodine's

  • Applewood 
  • Garlic

 North Country 

  • Applewood
  • Peppered

Firsthand Foods 

  • Fresh & Local
Vande Rose Farms
  • Applewood
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Crackers
  • Caraway Rye 

Granola

  • Sorghum Sesame

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  • Bacon Jam 

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or...
 
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8oz Jar - $12.99

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