Heralding Spring (w/ Fingers Crossed)!
In This Issue:
Tasty Tuesday: Go Ouest!
Saturday Tasting: Heralding Spring

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Spring's Fab Five
    Fingers crossed! Winter may almost be on the ropes.  We aren't simply crossing our fingers, however. We've erected displays in the front of our Durham and Raleigh stores showcasing a few of our springiest wines to chase away the final throws of winter, and we're featuring them in our free Saturday tasting this week, which doubles as an exorcism of wintry weather. Check out the details below!
  • Domaine de la Chauvinière - Muscadet Sèvre et Maine - Sur Lie 2013   $9.99
  • Akarregi Txiki - Txakolina Getariako 2013  $13.99
  • Michel Girard - Sancerre Rosé 2013  $19.99
  • Mas Montel - Pays d'Oc Rouge "Cuvée Jericho" 2011  17.99
  • Lua Cheia - Douro Tinto "Andreza" 2012  $14.99
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Tasty Tuesday:
Go Ouest!
The Sud-Ouest, that is...
This Tuesday, March 10th, we present our FREE
 midweek wine tasting!  Every Tuesday is tasty...
5:00 - 7:00 pm
  Join us next Tuesday as we highlight three distinctive and diverse specialties from various corners of Southwest France!  A patchwork of unique and under-explored wines, the Sud-Ouest serves as both a home to exotic varietals with charismatic personalities and the origin of some familiar and famous faces in the world of grapes. Expect Cabernet Franc & Tannat (in rare pink attire), the two Mansengs (Petit & Gros), and Negrette. Go Ouest!
 
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
.
Heralding Spring!

We're Exorcising Winter
With Wine!
   With the past week's bizarre and unpredictable (indeed taunting!) shifts in weather, we've finally had enough. It may sound extreme, but we think that an exorcism is in order. The best and only weapon at our disposal is a well tested one. Wine! We've always advocated the joys of drinking seasonally, but now we call upon the divine powers of wine to help ask winter to RAISE UP! Sublimely mineralistic whites, vibrantly lean rosé, and ripe, powerful reds (for what we hope will be refreshingly cool but no longer cold nights) are the order of the day. So put down your Ouija board and join us as we chase winter away this Saturday. The power of wine compels you!
 
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Chauvinière
Domaine de la Chauvinière 
Muscadet Sèvre et Main 2013
Sur Lie 

{organic} 100% Melon

(Loire Atlantique, France)

CLEAN PEAR & LIME, CHALKY MINERAL, VERY VERY DRY
Holy Moly! We weren't sure if we were ready for this one! Possibly the driest tasting wine in the store. "It don't get no drier," said one fan. If you are curious about experiencing a wine with a very minerally flavor, but haven't identified that flavor yet, here is your chance...
 
 
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Txiki!
Akarregi Txiki 
Txakolina Getariako 2013 

100% Hondarribi Zuri 

(Getaria, Basque Country)

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 from... 

  

  

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Girard Sancerre Rosé
Michel Girard
Sancerre Rosé 2013
100% Pinot Noir 

(Eastern Loire, France)

TANGY STRAWBERRY, HAUNTING MINERALITY, HERBACEOUS
Pinot Noir is what we might call the other grape of Sancerre. For very few of us does the appellation's name evoke thoughts of the regal red grape, but its presence in Sancerre predates that of the region's contemporary star, Sauvignon Blanc. While the reds are a rarity (accounting for significantly less than 20% of the region's production), the rosés are even more seldom-encountered... 
Mas Montel 
"Jericho" 2011
{sustainable} 80% Syrah, 
20% Grenache

(Eastern Languedoc, France)

DENSE BLACKBERRY & SMOKE, HERBES DE PROVENCE
Perennially one of our favorite Syrah-based wines, this stunning value has regularly garnered comparisons to the bold reds of Cornas in the northern Rhone, but at half the price...
Lua Cheia 
Douro Tinto 2011
"Andreza" 
40% Touriga Nacional, 40% Touriga
Franca, 20% Tinto Roriz 

(Douro, Portugal)

FIRM PLUM & DRIED MISSION FIG, WISPS OF CEDAR & VANILLA Representing a somewhat more modernist slant on the classically dark and elegantly rugged unfortified reds of the Douro valley, Lua Cheia's "Andreza" is named for a particularly stunning bend among the region's otherworldly (and very steep) vineyard-scape. The typical purple-black fruit and...
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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):

 

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

 

Lua Cheia 

Douro

"Lua Nova" 

$11.99 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:
Enomatic
Here's what's on tap!
Subject to change on 
  a whim or fancy...


Whites (48º F):

 

Chauvinière
Muscadet
"Clos Les Montys"

$13.99 on sale

 

Estiban Martin 

Chardonnay 

"Unoaked"

$8.99 on sale

 

Laballe

Gascogne Blanc

"Les Terres Basses" 

$9.99 on sale

Steininger

Grüner Veltliner 

$13.99 on sale
  

Gilles Noblet 

Pouilly Fuisse 

$28.99 on sale

 

Angel Rodriguez 

Rueda Verdejo 

"Martinsancho" 

$18.99 on sale

 

Clos Lapeyre 

Béarn Rosé

$20.99 on sale

Dr. Heyden

Riesling Oppenheimer Kabinett  

$14.99 on sale

 

 

Reds (65º F):

 

Bodegas Tempore

Garnacha Joven 

"Terrae"

$10.99 on sale

 

Weingut Schäfer

"Red Sheep"

$11.99 on sale

 

Casa Contini

Biferno Riserva

$13.99 on sale

 

Cooper Mnt Vineyards
Pinot Noir
"Cooper Hill"

$19.99 on sale

 

Terrabianca

Dolcetto d'Alba

"Brichet" 

$16.99

 

Chateau La Colombière

Fronton Rouge 

"Réserve"

$15.99 on sale


Hillinger

"Hillside" 

$27.99 on sale

 

Ancient Peaks

Cabernet Sauvignon

$19.99 on sale

 

Lua Cheia 

Douro Tinto 

"Lua Nova"

$11.99 on sale

  

Melville

Pinot Noir 

$34.99 on sale

 

Hyatt 

Syrah

$11.99 on sale

 

Viña Aliaga 
Tempranillo 

$9.99 on sale

  

Marichal

Tannat

"Premium Varietal" 

$14.99

 

Arnoux

Ventoux Rouge 

"Vieux Clocher" 

$10.99 on sale


Kanonkop

"Kadette"

$14.99 on sale

  

Domaine Bardin 

Coteaux du Giennois

 $19.99 on sale 

 


Composition

 

Upcoming  Tastings!* 

 
Saturday Tasting
3/07/15
"Heralding Spring"
(An Exorcism of Winter -
WITH WINE!) 

Tasty Tuesday
3/10/15
Sud-Ouest-Fest!!!
(a tasting of three wines) 
Saturday Tasting
3/14/15
"All About Aliaga"
aka
"Navigating Navarra" 

Tasty Tuesday
3/17/15
Wear Green w/ Galicia! (on St. Paddy's Day)   

Saturday Tasting
3/21/15
"Put the Foot in
Your Mouth" (Southern Italy) 

Tasty Tuesday
3/24/15
"Hips Don't Lie"
(Northeastern Italy) 

Saturday Tasting
3/28/15
Islands of Wine

Tasty Tuesday
3/31/15
(Almost) April Fool's!


*Subject to change!

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