Hopscotch Party & Birthday Festivities...
Did someone say SALE?
In This Issue:
The Rosé Garden
Tasty Tuesday: A Toast on the Eve of Our Birthday!
Saturday Tasting: Greener on Every Side!

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Happy Birthday!
(May we say that to ourselves?)

    As we prepare to turn seven next Wednesday, September 10th, we're feeling enormous gratitude to all of the loyal friends and customers in the Triangle and beyond who've unfailingly shown us support as we've grown older and quite possibly wiser!  We've bonded with you over our shared thirst for wine and passion for the delicious silver lining which lies beyond industrialized corporate wineries.
    The past year has been one of the most exciting for us as we've sprouted new buds, opening our second store in an awesome Raleigh neighborhood of which we couldn't be more proud to be a part! What better way to celebrate than with a hefty birthday sale?  Next week, starting on Monday (the 8th) and ending on Sunday (the 14th), we're offering a robust 20% discount on every purchase of 6 or more Wine Authorities Selections  and a 25% discount on every purchase of 12 or moreWine Authorities Selections™!  These are some of our very favorite wines - ones which we've invited to the Triangle, bringing them exclusively to our shops! It's like a birthday discount for everyone, and you can take advantage of it as often as you like over the course of the seven-day sale. There's only one catch, you'll need to give us the ultra-secret, ultra-special hand signal at checkout in order to congratulate us on our seven years of existence:

   Seriously, you have to give us the signal...

Wine Authorities Selections:
 
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Join us for a game of
Hopscotch?

  For the aurally alert among you, it should be fairly clear that we here at Wine Authorities are rabid music fans. We're always kicking out the tasty jams and filling the shop with only the crunchiest of grooves. So it is with a kid-on-Christmas sense of joy that we anticipate this coming weekend, the greatest musical weekend in the history of the world. It's Hopscotch Time!
 
And now that we have a wonderful Raleigh location, we get to be right in the thick of the festival and participate like we never have before. On Saturday, September 6th, we will help our awesome neighbors Person Street Bar throw one of Hopscotch's legendary (and totally free) Day Parties. The Person Street Plaza parking lot will be rocking starting at 2pm with live music provided by Petey, The Shelles, Cousins, and Loose Canyons. We'll be pouring beer on tap and wine by the glass for the duration, and Yellow Dog Bread will have pastries and Lamplighter Coffee for sale. Our soon to be neighbors Standard Foods are having a lamb roast*, so it's going to be one big happily roiling sea of great food, great wine (and beer), and great music. We're literally vibrating with excitement!

For more info check out the Hopscotch website!

*Vegetarian Plates also available
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   Before we move on to the creamy molten center of this particular newsletter, we would like to express our gratitude to the readers of Durham Magazine for voting us Best Wine Store in Durham!
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ROS� LIMERICKS & PINK HAIKU
 
    Every year at about this time, we invite our customers to submit ros�-themed limericks. These are then expertly judged, and prizes are distributed to the most deserving poets. A good laugh is had by all. So, with all appropriate pomp and ceremony, let the 2014 Ros� Limerick Contest begin! (cannons fire, doves are released)
   BUT WAIT! We have two stores now, so this year we are having TWO CONTESTS. Ladies and gentlemen, it is our great honor to announce the first ever Ros� Haiku Contest. While the limericks are stored in a secret location and judged by a stern and patriarchal panel of adjudicators, the haikus will be judged by you, in what will surely be a breathtaking use of social media. As tech nerds like to say (probably), the haiku contest is "open source".
   Feel free to submit your work to both contests! Read on for rules, details, and examples. Remember, no matter which format you choose, your muse MUST be dry ros�!

ROS� LIMERICK CONTEST
From Wikipedia: A Limerick is a form of poetry in five-line anapestic meter with a strict AABBA rhyme scheme (no, not the Swedish pop band). Limericks are usually humorous and sometimes obscene. Here's an example:

The limerick packs laughs anatomical 
Into space that is quite economical 
But the good ones I've seen 
So seldom are clean 
And the clean ones so seldom are comical


THE RULES

1. You must be at least 21 to submit an entry.
2. Multiple entries are allowed, but each must be sent in a separate email.
3. Poems MUST BE IN STRICT LIMERICK FORMAT. Only true limericks are eligible to win.
4. Entries must be "clean enough" to print publicly. Please don't say a cussie.
5. All entries are due by Friday, September 12th at midnight.
6. All limericks must have a ros�-based theme.

Please email all entries to floatingheads@wineauthorities.com, with LIMERICK as the subject line.

 

PINK HAIKU CONTEST 
A haiku is an ancient Japanese poetic form, usually meant to inspire contemplation of the dignity and solemnity of nature. For our purposes, your haiku should follow a strict format: three lines, the first and third containing five syllables, and the second containing seven syllables. Here's a truly stirring example:

 

As the sun rises 
My underwear goes with it 
I have a wedgie

-Andrew Fiore circa 1995  


THE RULES

1. You must be at least 21 to submit an entry.
2. Multiple entries are allowed, but each must be sent in a separate email.
3. Poems MUST BE IN STRICT HAIKU FORMAT. Only true haikus are eligible to win.
4. Entries must be "clean enough" to print publicly. Again, please refrain from the invocation of cussies.
5. All entries are due by Friday, September 12th at midnight.
6. Each haiku must have a ros�-based theme.

Please Tweet or Instagram your submissions @wineauthorities, and be sure to tag them #rosehaiku2014. You can also post your entries on our Facebook page with the #rosehaiku2014 hashtag.

 

WHAT CAN YOU WIN?

  • 1st Prize - $50 Wine Authorities Gift Certificate! 
     
  • 2nd Prize - $30 Enomatic Card!
     
  • 3rd prize - Two bottles of any DAILY-priced ros�s!

 

Our panel of celebrity limerick judges will be announced soon. Stay tuned for more info!

 

 

  And remember...

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Why, thank you!      
Real Customer Comment:

"I work at [other major wine shop], but I buy all
of my wine at Wine Authorities"

    -  D.        

Ros� Garden 2014
   The ninth wonder of the world (our beautiful Ros� Garden) continues to bloom in all it's pink, juicy glory. In fact, we have two gardens for the first time this year and a whole new cadre of gardeners to tend our Raleigh Ros�. Old favorites have returned along with the requisite new arrivals, and (as always) we will donate a portion of our ros� sales throughout the year to breast cancer research. So come shop in our magnificent garden. New ros� selections are continuously blooming, and you never know what might surface next!  
 
Currently in the Garden:
  • Vi�a Aliaga - Navarra Rosado "Lagrima de Garnacha" 2013  $9.99
  • Tegernseerhof - Zweigelt Ros� "Mittelbach" 2013  $14.99  
  • Bodegas Tempore - Garnacha Rosado "Terrae" 2013  $9.99 
  • Bodegas Los Frailes - Monastrell Rosado 2013  $9.99 
  • Mas Codina - Ros� Pened�s 2013  $9.99 
  • Domaine Gouron - Chinon Ros� 2013  $17.99
  • Barnard-Griffin - "Ros� of Sangiovese" 2013  $14.99
  • Jean Paul Brun - Beaujolais "Ros� d'Folie" 2013  $16.99
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Tasty Tuesday!
A Toast on the Eve 
of Our Birthday 
This Tuesday, September 9th, we present our FREE
midweek wine tasting.  Every Tuesday is tasty!

5:00 - 7:00 pm
Birthday Toast
     Join us on Tuesday as we celebrate Wine Authorities' seventh anniversary - our birthday!  We're sampling three bubblies which wouldn't be available in our corner of the world if we hadn't loved them enough to bring them here and share them with our customers.  First up is the refreshing Cava from Mas Codina that is as precious to us as gold but disappears as quickly as water! Next, we'll venture to France's Alsace for an elegantly piercing sparkler made from Riesling, Pinot Blanc, and Pinot Noir courtesy of Cave Freudenreich. We'll end in Burgundy with what was the very first sparkling Wine Authorities Selection, the Blanc de Blancs Cremant from Domaine Tripoz. Toasting to the exploration and adoration of wines that are made, as is the case with every wine we carry, by the very farmers which grew the grapes, we share these favorites with you. Cheers!
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
Greener on
Every Side!
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   Prepare to enter a mysterious green world at this week's free Saturday tasting, and join us in the midst of the last (and perhaps hottest) leg of this overtly green Triangle summer. We're sampling four phenomenal values - each fantastically green in its own special way. Our first stop is in Basque Country, at the eastern extreme of what is typically referred to as "Green Spain" (stretching from Galicia across Spain's northern, very Atlantic coast). Here, in this most mild and moist part of Spain, we'll find one of our best and only defenses against these 90+ degree North Carolinian days we have at hand. Next, we'll venture westward into the realm of northern Portugal's "Green Wine," Vinho Verde for a great example of one of the nation's many spectacular and virtually exclusive grape varietals, Loureiro. Taking a detour from Northern Iberia, we'll find ourselves at the heart of Europe in the company of Austria's revered green grape, Gr�ner Veltliner - in this case, by the liter! Our final wine welcomes us back to "Green Spain." At the frontier of Galicia and Castilla y Le�n, where we'll find Bierzo and its impressive but somewhat rare Menc�a grape. Get your green on!
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Txiki Txak!
Akarregi Txiki 

Getariako Txakolina 

100% Hondarribi Zuri 
(Pays Basque, Spain)
TRADEMARK TXAKOLICIOUS MINERAL & EFFERVESCENCE
Lasalde Elkartea is a big man with giant hands. He comes from a cattle farming family, but left this tradition to follow his love of the zippy Basque wine. Glimmering with green zestiness and bright golden fruit, this phenomenal value in Txakoli layers the signature mineral and blazing acidity that we crave...

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P�ssaros Loureiro

Anselmo Mendes 
Vinho Verde ~ Loureiro 2013
"P�ssaros" 

100% Loureiro

(Minho, Portugal)

BRIGHT GRAPEFRUIT & AROMATIC PEAR, ZINGY ACIDITY
Anselmo Mendes has established himself as Portugal's go-to specialist for white wine, and he continues his streak with this superb Vinho Verde. The "Passaros" is unusual in that it is the rare example of a Vinho Verde made from...

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Paul D. Gr�ner
Paul D. 
Gr�ner Veltliner 2013 [1 Liter!

100% Gr�ner Veltliner 

(Wagram, Austria)

FRESH APPLE, CREAMY MELON, SPRITZY PEPPERCORN
On a wine buying trip in Austria, Paul Direder stood before us looking barely old enough to drive. He smiled as we sampled his wine and stood nervously with his mother at his side waiting for a reaction. His first vintage was brilliant. The family farm...
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Peiquey!

Pieque
Bierzo 2012 

100% Menc�a

(Bierzo, Spain)

BLACK CHERRY & EARTHINESS, SMOKY RESTRAINED SPICE
Here's a rare value from the "in vogue" Bierzo appellation in North Western Spain. From Mencia vines over 50 years of age, this unoaked little minx is tempting and intriguing. Mencia is known for it's complex spicy aromas...
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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!]

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

Whites (48˚F):

 

Anton Bauer 

Gr�ner Veltliner
"Rosenberg"

$19.99 on sale

 

Dr. Heyden 

Riesling Kabinett 

"Oppenheimer" 

$16.99 on sale

 

Jean Paul Brun 

Beujolais Ros� 

"Ros� d'Folie" 

$16.99 on sale

Chateau Jouclary 

Sauvignon Blanc 

$11.99 on sale

 

Reds (65˚F):

 

Quinta do Encontro 

Beira Atl�ntico 

"Encontro"

$11.99 on sale

 

Vi�a Aliaga 

Syrah

"Syrah Syrah"

$13.99 on sale

 

Baileyana

Pinot Noir 

"Firepeak Vineyard" 

$22.99 on sale

 

Grosbos Barbara 
Saint Pou�ain Rouge
"Chambre d'Eduard" 

$15.99 on sale

 

Bodegas Arrocal 

Ribera de Duero 

"Arrocal"

$19.99

 

Paraiso

Pinot Noir

$19.99 on sale


La Quercia 

Aglianico

$16.99 on sale

 

Meinklang

Zweigelt

 $19.99 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):

 

Cooper Mountain 

Pinot Gris 

$19.99 on sale

 

Reine-Juliet

Syrah / Grenache Ros�

$11.99 on sale

 

Bodegas Los Frailes 

Monastrell Rosado 

$9.99 on sale

Eric de Suremain 

Rully 1er Cru 

$29.99 on sale

  

Clos Lapeyre 

Juran�on Sec

"Mantoulan"
$38.99 on sale

 

Netzl

Chardonnay

$19.99 on sale

 

Cave Freudenreich 

Riesling

"Terre d'Apollon" 

$17.99 on sale

Stein

Riesling

"Blauschiefer" 

$19.99 on sale

 

 

Reds (65� F):

 

Bodegas Arrocal

Ribera del Duero 

$19.99 on sale

 

Mas Granier 

"Cuv�e Psalmodi"

$11.99 on sale

 

Paul D 

Zweigelt

$12.99 on sale

 

Laetitia
Pinot Noir 

$26.99 on sale

 

Terrabianca 

Dolcetto d'Alba

"Brichet"  

$16.99

 

Tre Ricci 

Cabernet Sauvignon 

$29.99 on sale


Bodegas Los Frailes 

Valencia Monastrell 

$9.99 on sale

 

Bodegas Perica

Rioja Crianza

"Olagosa"

$16.99 on sale

 

Anton Bauer

Zweigelt

"Feuersbrunn" 

$14.99 on sale

  

Chateau La Colombi�re 

Fronton

"Coste Rouge" 

$24.99 on sale

 

Occhipinti

"Il Frappato" 

$34.99 on sale

 

Domaine Magellan 
H�rault Rouge
"Le Fruit D�fendu"

$11.99 on sale

  

Brutocau

Merlot 

"Bliss Vineyard"

$22.99

 

Merietta

"Old Vine Red" 

$14.99 on sale


Hartwell

Cabernet Sauvignon

"H"

$49.99 on sale

  

Laurent Combier 

Crozes Hermitage "L"

 $26.99 on sale  

 

Firsthand Foods

  firsthand  

Fresh Local Sausages 

  • Bratwurst
  • Country Breakfast
  • Spicy Italian

 


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Artisan Bacon

 

Nodine's

  • Applewood 
  • Garlic

 North Country 

  • Applewood
  • Peppered

Firsthand Foods 

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

Granola

  • Sorghum Sesame

Spreads

  • Bacon Jam 

Big Spoon

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Local peanut butters

  • Peanut  
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   

  • Mission Almond

8oz Jar - $13.00 

 

Counter Culture Coffee
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  • Rustico
  • Farmhouse Blend, Equador & Peru
  • Tsheya, Congo    
  • Baroida Late Harvest, Papua New Guinea 
  • Remera, Rwanda 
  • Espresso Toscano                
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http://raleighcityfarm.org
Farm Stand Hours: Tuesdays: 4pm-7pm
Thursdays: 8am-2pm
Saturdays: 8am-3pm 
 
  • Community supported farms & entrepreneurs. 
  • Socially & financially underutilized urban land. 
  • Healthy neighborhoods & thriving markets. 
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