This Saturday: More Post-Holiday Budget Relief:

It's Boxing Day!

In This Issue:

Tasty Tuesday: Old World Delights from Germany

Saturday Tasting: Boxing Day!

Pinching Pennies?

Recovering from the holiday rush isn't just about finding responsible ways to dispose of fruit cakes. It's also about finding creative ways to balance your checkbook! We've made budget-conscious wine shopping easy with a display featuring just a few of our favorite top-value contenders (listed below). Also, join us this Saturday as we feature four spectacular three-liter boxes of sustainable and/or organically-produced wine from around the globe. Stop pinching pennies and check out all the details below!

Domaine Le Garrigon - Vin de Méditerranée 2013 $10.99
Laballe - Cotes de Gascogne Blanc "Les Terres Basses" 2013 $9.99
Viña Aliaga - Tempranillo 2013 $9.99
Domaine Magellan - Hérault Rosé "La Fruit Défendu" 2013 $11.99
Tempore - Garnacha "Terrae" 2013 $10.99
Lezírias - Tejo Branco "Samora" 2013 $7.99

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Tasty Tuesday:

Sprechen Sie Deutsch Part 1

Old World German Delights

This Tuesday, January 20th, we present our FREE
midweek wine tasting! Every Tuesday is tasty...

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Join us this Tuesday as we welcome a slew of returning favorites and new arrivals from the land of the rising lederhosen. Also rising are liters of bone-dry, refreshing Riesling, full-figured Spätburgender (that's Pinot Noir, now the third most-planted grape in Germany!), and a lightly sweet red blend christened the "Red Sheep" to help us usher in the Year of the Sheep. Rheinhessen represent!

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

"try before you buy" at

our FREE tasting

Post-Holiday Budget Recovery 2:

Bountiful Boxes!

Hot on the heels of last week's budget-relief tasting, we are excited to roll out yet another installment of pocketbook sparing features which allow you to tread lightly on your checkbook and save cash while savoring deeply the flavors of delicious wines. This week, we turn to that most generous bastion of bounty, the noble THREE LITER BOX. Each is a loving care package filled with the equivalent of FOUR BOTTLES of delightful, estate-produced wine. Italy, Chile, and France come to our rescue this Saturday!

Viña Apaltagua

Sauvignon Blanc 2014

"Gran Verano"

{sustainable} 100% Sauvignon Blanc

(Curico, Chile)

GRAPEFRUIT & PINEAPPLE, RACY YET RIPE, BOLD & ZESTY
Sauvignon Blanc is one of Chile's most celebrated specialties, and the Loire Valley native does excellent work in the nation's Valle Central. Somewhat more tropical than the colder-climated offerings associated with New Zealand's Marlborough and France's Sancerre, this one combines...

On Sale! $26.99 (=$6.75 per bottle) [Full Description]

Carussin

Barbera d'Asti 2013

"Asinoi"

{biodynamic} 100% Barbera

(Piemonte, Italy)

LEATHER & CURRANT, TANGY BALSAMIC WITH A KISS OF FUNK
Matteo and Luca Garberoglio are the genial, laid-back dudes behind the 85 year-old Carussin estate, where they spend their days brewing beer and hanging out with donkeys. Oh, and making incredible wine. This powerful Barbera is an homage to the noble donkey, the raising of which has been a passion for Matteo and Luca's mother Bruna...

On Sale! $37.99(=$9.50 per bottle) [Full Description]

Domaine Le Garrigon

Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2013

{organic} 50% Grenache,

30% Syrah, 20% Carignan

(Languedoc, France)

SMOKY BERRIES, GARRIGUE & BLACK TEA
From organic winegrower Daniel Couston comes this youthful and classically-styled Rhone red with dark berry flavors, lightly smoky black tea, and loads of the estate's namesake garrigues (aromas of wild thyme, rosemary, lavender, and...

On Sale! $34.99 (=$8.75 per bottle) [Full Description]

La Quercia

Montepulciano
d'Abruzzo 2010

{organic} 100% Montepulciano

(Abruzzo, Italy)

WARM CINNAMON, DEEP PURPLE FRUIT, COZY & COMFORTING
Antonio Lamona has created a self-sustaining paradise in Morro d'Oro, cultivating organic vineyards on breeze-kissed slopes that rise above the Adriatic. Sea. With inviting aromas of spiced plum cake that mellow into deep berry fruits...

On Sale! $41.99 (=$10.50 per bottle) [Full Description]

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Hope to see you Saturday!

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!]

on the Enomatic

in Durham:

Here's what's on tap!

Subject to change on

a whim or fancy...

Whites (48˚F):

Laballe

Gascogne Blanc
"Les Terres Basses"

$9.99 on sale

Vasquez

Ribeiro Blanco

"Os Pasás"

$36.99 on sale

Dr. Heyden

Silvaner

"Alte Reben"

$15.99 on sale

Cave Freudenreich

Riesling

"Terre d'Apollon"

$17.99 on sale

Reds (65˚F):

Hook & Ladder

Zinfandel

$25.99 on sale

Meinklang

Zweigelt

"Graupert"

$17.99 on sale

Mas Bruguiere

Pic Saint Loup

$23.99 on sale

Domaine Vissoux

Beaujolais Primeur
Vieilles Vignes

$15.99 on sale

Clos de Pavillon

Saint-Emilion

"La Petite Folie

$26.99

Domaine Cedric Bardin

Coteaux du Giennois

$19.99 on sale

Chateau Lusseau

Graves Rouge

"Cuvée Berengere"

$19.99 on sale

Baileyana

Pinot Noir

"Firepeak"

$22.99 on sale

on the Enomatic

in Raleigh:

Here's what's on tap!

Subject to change on

a whim or fancy...

Whites (48º F):

Anton Bauer

Grüner Veltliner
"Rosenberg"

$19.99 on sale

Lezírias

Tejo Branco

"Samora"

$7.99 on sale

Laballe

Gascogne Blanc

"Les Terres Basses"

$9.99 on sale

Domaine des Gascogne

Macon Perrone

$22.99 on sale

Stuhlmuller Vineyards

Chardonnay

$26.99 on sale

Pas Saint Martin

Saumur

"Le Pierre Frite"

$15.99 on sale

Domaine Magellan

Hérault Rosé

"Le Frut Défendu"

$11.99 on sale

Domaine de la
Chauvinière

Muscadet Sevre et Main

"Clos les Montys"

$13.99 on sale

Reds (65º F):

Bodegas Tempore

Garnacha Joven

"Terrae"

$10.99 on sale

Domaine Robert Serol

Cote Roannaise

"Les Originelles"

$14.99 on sale

Abbaye Sylva Plana

Faugeres

"Les Novices"

$17.99 on sale

Baileyanna

Pinot Noir
"Firepeak"

$22.99 on sale

Terrabianca

Dolcetto d'Alba

"Brichet"

$16.99

Tre Ricci

Cabernet Sauvignon

$29.99 on sale

Domaine Magellan

Hérault Rouge

"Le Fruit Défendu"

$11.99 on sale

Domaine Le Garrigon

Cotes du Rhone

$11.99 on sale

Lua Cheia

Douro Tinto

"Lua Nova"

$11.99 on sale

Mas Bruguiere

Pic Saint-Loup

"L'Arbouse"

$23.99 on sale

Los Frailes

Valencia Tinto

"Trilogia"

$19.99 on sale

Viña Aliaga

Tempranillo

$9.99 on sale

Meinklang

Zweigelt

"Graupert"

$17.99

Domaine Billard

Saint-Romain

"La Perrière"

$32.99 on sale

Kanonkop

"Kadette"

$14.99 on sale

Domaine Bardin

Coteaux du Giennois

$19.99 on sale

Upcoming Tastings!*

Saturday Tasting

1/17/15

Post Holiday
Budget Relief 2:
Boxing Day!

Tasty Tuesday

1/20/15

Sprechen Sie Deutsch 1:
The Old-World Delights
of Germany

Saturday Tasting

1/24/15

Summer Somewhere 1:
South America

Tasty Tuesday

1/27/15

Sprechen Sie Deutsch 2:
Austria's New Guard

Saturday Tasting

1/31/15

Summer Somewhere 2:
South Africa

Tasty Tuesday

2/3/15

New and Notable
from Northern Portugal

*Subject to change!

Firsthand Foods

Fresh Local Sausages

Bratwurst
Country Breakfast
Spicy Italian

Artisan Bacon

Nodine's

Applewood
Garlic

North Country

Applewood
Peppered

Firsthand Foods

Fresh & Local

Vande Rose Farms

Applewood

Crackers

Caraway Rye

Granola

Sorghum Sesame

Spreads

Bacon Jam

Big Spoon

Roasters

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

Rustico
Farmhouse Blend, Equador & Peru
Tsheya, Congo
Baroida Late Harvest, Papua New Guinea
Remera, Rwanda
Espresso Toscano

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