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Heralding Spring (w/ Fingers Crossed)!
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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...
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!
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This Saturday from 12 to 3 PM
"try before you buy" at
our FREE tasting
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!
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...
Akarregi Txiki
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...
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...
(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...
Douro Tinto 2011
"Andreza"
40% Touriga Nacional, 40% Touriga
Franca, 20% Tinto Roriz
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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Hope to see you Saturday!
Our best to you,
Grand Poobah & the Wine Authorities staff
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