We "Define" Values
in Estate Wine!
October 16th is the 256th anniversary of the birthday of the esteemed Noah Webster - he of the famous self-titled Dictionary - and so today we celebrate Dictionary Day! Apparently it took ol' Noah 27 years to write his dictionary, which seems impressive compared to the Oxford English Dictionary, which took thousands of people over 50 years to compile.* Anyway, it only took us 7 years to compile the Triangle's best selection of 100% Estate Grown Wines. So pick up a dictionary today to expand your vocabulary, and then come see us to broaden your palate.
*The OED is actually a much better dictionary.
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Thursday, November 6th
at our Raleigh Shop
7:33 pm - $36
Join us for a fun and educational evening of wine which chronicles a vine's bud break in the spring to each of its grape's being lovingly squeezed into the bottles that we hold so dear. We cover how vines are grown and wine is made as well as how to read a label, how to buy wine, how to store wine, how to drink, er, taste wine... and we'll debunk many wine myths throughout this two hour class.
(includes tasting wines, video presentation, and handouts)
Thursday, November 6th @ 7:33 pm
$36 per person
Reservations required
(Corkscrew) Operators are standing by:
(919) 831-9463
To celebrate American Cheese month, we're loading up on absolutely world-class cheeses produced in the United States - many from right here in North Carolina. These extremely high-quality, traditionally produced Cheeses are made by the skilled and toughened hands of proud, passionate artisans and aged under impeccably precise conditions, resulting in such deliciousness as to dissolve your knees into puddles of whey upon first taste.
We will be sampling a different US cheese every Saturday this month during our regular 12-3 tastings, so stop by and get cheesy...American Style!
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Some wine w/ that cheese?
Fall in love with The Loire!
Speaking of cheese, it's arguable that the Loire valley provides the world with the most Cheese-friendly wines of all! Discover, rediscover, or just plain fall in love with some of our current favorites from France's Loire. This massive 600+ mile river and its many tributaries are home to a network of wine regions brimming with autumnal romance! We have erected monuments made of Loire Valley wines in our Durham and Raleigh stores to help us sing the praises of these fall-friendly delights!
Real Customer Comment:
"You beautiful people make my life easier!"
- Sheila B.
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The Results are in and pretty in pink!
The Limericks and Haikus are in and have been carefully perused and chuckled over by our crack team of celebrity judges. Before we announce the winners, let us thank said judges: Joni Mitchell, Salman Rushdie, and the ghost of Sylvia Plath. Thanks be to y'all thangs!
And thanks be to all the talented poets who submitted entries this year. In a way, you are all winners. But in another, more accurate way, only the authors of the following entries are the winners...
Limerick Winners! Some kind of aphrodisiac must have been floating around in the 2013 rosé, because the limericks this year were positively licentious! Behold, your sexy, sexy cream of the limericks crop.
First Place: $50.00 Wine Authorities Gift Certificate!
They booked the hedonistic cruise
not really thinking of booze
ready and waxed
but what should be packed?
A rosé, when the dress code is nude!
- Susanna G.
Second Place: $30.00 Enomatic Card!
When turning to activities amorous
And my darlin' is looking real glamorous
It's always rosé we drink
'Cause when my tongue touches pink
The pleasure's deliciously clamorous.
- Paul K.
Third Place: Two Bottles of Daily Rosé!
A bottle of rosé often mimics a pink torpedo
like something oft concealed in a speedo
drink it down if you will
just give it a chill
And rejoice if the pink is your credo
- Agostino B.
Haiku Winners! 
The haikus, appropriately, were infused with a sense of calm and even melancholy: perfect for our ongoing shift into autumn. Below, your pearls of pink zen:
First Place: $50.00 Wine Authorities Gift Certificate!
I drink in private
Because no one understands
Your dry elegance
- Kelly L.
Second Place: $30.00 Enomatic Card!
A rose is a rose,
With scents and flavors they speak,
These pearls make fine drinks.
- Tom H.
Third Place: Two Bottles of Daily Rosé
Summer seduction-
Sip pink, amber wine, a glass.
Rosé beckons, bright.
- Barbara D.
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This Tuesday, October 21st, we present our FREE
midweek wine tasting. Every Tuesday is tasty!
Our evenings of late have been punctuated by a crisp autumnal chill and the spicy perfume of drying leaves. Butternut squash and sweet potato stew, shepherds pie, and other fall-friendly dishes herald that comforting contrast between an impending cold outside and the warmth indoors. We may notice the first aromas of chimney smoke while walking at night or watch nostalgic horror films in honor of Halloween, knowing that we're safely guarded by freshly carved jack o' lanterns on the front porch. Join us next Tuesday as we celebrate fall with three selections whose flavors might as well have been plucked straight from our autumn memories. Deeply-colored Austrian Pinot Gris, spicily leafy Cabernet Franc from the Loire, and mysteriously smoky Mencia from Bierzo will show us the way!
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
Austria's Burgenland runs vertically along the nation's eastern borders, clinging closely to Hungary and brushing up against Slovakia and Slovenia. The region is the origin of Austria's most celebrated red wines, which benefit from its warmer, more continental climate. Home to a diverse array of soils, it's proven well-equipped to provide wine lovers with impressive complexity and stylistic variety. 
Join us this Saturday as we celebrate the Burgenlandian brilliance of two of our favorite producers from these öster- most reaches of the Österreich! Meinklang (pictured above) and Hillinger (pictured below) never fail to impress with the quality and character of their wines. Meinklang, armed with its steadfast philosophy and biodynamic mastery has, year after year, uncompromisingly provided us with some of the most iconic (and, at times, iconoclastic) wines we cary. Hillinger, through an inspiring breadth of vision and spirit of adventure, has helped redefine the scope of what Austrian wine can represent. Prost!
Leo Hillinger
Pinot Noir Brut Rosé
[sustainable] 100% Pinot Noir
(Burgenland, Austria)
LIGHT STRAWBERRY, MINERALS, SOFT MOUSSE
Leo Hillinger's secco is a dry Pinot Noir rosé sparkling gem made in the same manner as Italy's Prosecco wines. The color is a pale ruby hue and shows light strawberry fruit on the nose. There's a touch of minerality that weaves...
Meinklang
Grüner Veltliner 2013
[biodynamic] 100% Grüner Veltliner (Burgenland, Austria)
CRISP GREEN APPLE & CITRUS, FLORAL NOTES, SMOKY MINERALS
Werner and Angela Michlits run the wine side of the family farm. Their farm is a true biodynamic universe. They grow vegetable crops, raise cows and pigs, make wine, produce mico-brew beer and heirloom apple cider - all biodynamically. While Grüner Veltliner is not..."
{organic} 100% Blaufrankisch (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 important grapes of...
Sankt Laurent 2012
"Konkret"
{biodynamic} 100% Sankt Laurent
(Burgenland, Austria)
ELEGANTLY BOLD BLACK CHERRY & DAMSON, WISPY GRAPHITE-LIKE MINERAL, IMPRESSIVE
Sankt Laurent, a prominently purply grape of mysterious but presumedly Austrian origins plays an important role in the world of Burgenland's reds as well as those of Slovakia and the Czech republic. Long rumored and hypothesized to be a relative of Pinot Noir, it's now known to be more uniquely Central European. This rendition from Meinklang represents not only the varietal at its absolute zenith but...
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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):
Anton Bauer
Grüner Veltliner
"Rosenberg"
$19.99 on sale
Dr. Heyden
Riesling Kabinett
"Oppenheimer"
$16.99 on sale
Jean Paul Brun
Beujolais Rosé
"Rosé d'Folie"
$16.99 on sale
Chateau Jouclary
Sauvignon Blanc
$11.99 on sale
Reds (65˚F):
Quinta do Encontro
Beira Atlântico
"Encontro"
$11.99 on sale
Viña Aliaga
Syrah
"Syrah Syrah"
$13.99 on sale
Baileyana
Pinot Noir
"Firepeak Vineyard"
$22.99 on sale
Grosbos Barbara
Saint Pouçain 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
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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):
Cooper Mountain
Pinot Gris
$19.99 on sale
Reine-Juliet
Syrah / Grenache Rosé
$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
Jurançon Sec
"Mantoulan"
$38.99 on sale
Netzl
Chardonnay
$19.99 on sale
Cave Freudenreich
Riesling
"Terre d'Apollon"
$17.99 on sale
SteinRiesling "Blauschiefer" $19.99 on sale Reds (65º F): Bodegas Arrocal Ribera del Duero $19.99 on sale Mas Granier "Cuvée 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 Colombière Fronton "Coste Rouge" $24.99 on sale Occhipinti "Il Frappato" $34.99 on sale Domaine Magellan Hérault Rouge
"Le Fruit Défendu" $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
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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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