This Saturday, we're venturing to 
Italy's hip "hip," the great northwest! 
In This Issue:
Tasty Tuesday: (Almost) April Fool's!
Saturday Tasting: "Hips Don't Lie!"

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These Just In! 
So Many Recent Arrivals! 
   We've just unrolled a startling assortment of new arrivals from around the world, and if we may say so, they are absolutely all up in the house! Austria, France, Israel (see more details about the two Kosher for Passover selections from Barkan below), Italy, Spain, and the United States are represented beautifully, and our first five 2014 rosés have landed. Check it out!
  • Peirano Estate - Zinfandel "The Immortal Zin" Old Vine 2012  $11.99
  • Peirano Estate - Petite Sirah "Heritage" 2013  $11.99
  • Stolpman Vineyards - "La Cuadrilla" 2013  $24.99
  • Barnard Griffin - "Rosé of" Sangiovese 2014  $14.99
  • Barkan - Chardonnay "Classic" 2014  $14.99
  • Barkan - Cabernet Sauvignon "Classic" 2013   $13.99
  • Arrocal - Ribera del Duero Tinto 2013  $19.99
  • Arrocal - Ribera del Duero Rosado "Rosa" 2014  $12.99
  • Ameztoi - Txakoli Rosé "Rubentis" 2014  $19.99
  • El Maestro Sierra - Oloroso Sherry 15 Years (375ml)  $16.99
  • Bodegas Cesar Florido - Fino Sherry "Chipona" (375ml)  13.99
  • Primitivo Quiles - Vermouth Rojo (1 LITER!)  $21.99
  • Buil & Giné - Priorat Blanc "Joan Giné" 2013  $24.99
  • Paul D. - Rosé 2014  $12.99 (1 LITER!)
  • Mittelbach/Tegernseerhof - Zweigelt Rosé 2014  $14.99
  • Chateau Marjolet - Cotes du Rhone Blanc 2013  $14.99
  • Chateau Marjolet - Cotes du Rhone Village Laudun 2012  $16.99
  • Mas de Libian - Cotes du Rhone Rouge "Khazan" 2013  $16.99
  • Chateau Rispail - Gigondas 2011  $29.99
  • Chateau du Raux - Haut Médoc 2010  $19.99
  • Chateau La Fon du Berger - Haut Médoc Cru Bourgeois 2011  $21.99
  • Chateau Jeandeman - Fronsac Rouge "Chenerale" 2009  $24.99
  • Les Betes Curieuses - Muscadet Sevre et Maine "Clisson" 2010  $21.99
  • Domaine de Saint-Just - Saumur Blanc "Les Perrières" 2012  $20.99
  • Domaine La Bouysse - Corbières Rouge "Valensol" 2013  $14.99
  • Aureto - Ventoux "Cuvée Maestrale" 2011  42.99
  • Aureto - Luberon "Petit Miracle" 2012  $37.99
  • Aureto - Vaucluse "Tramontane" 2012  $42.99
  • Inama - Soave Classico 2013  $14.99
  • Monzio Compagnoni - Franciacorta Brut Rosato 2008  $27.99
  • Fratelli Pardi - Montefalco Sagrantino 2009  $38.99
  • Prinsi - Barbaresco "Gaia Principe" 2009  $49.99
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Kosher for Passover! 
    Two delicious, estate-produced Kosher for Passover wines have arrived from Israel's Barkan Vineyards. The wines from the estate's Ed Salzberg (pictured above) have exemplified quality, value, and great varietal character, making them our most trusted and most often returned to Passover selections year after year. Chag Sameach!
  • Barkan - Chardonnay "Classic" 2014  $14.99
  • Barkan - Cabernet Sauvignon"Classic" 2013  14.99
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Indy's Best of 
the Triangle! 
Indy's Best of 2015! 
  Exercise your right to vote (not to mention impeccable taste) by casting your ballot in Indy Week's annual "Best of the Triangle"!  Vote for all your favorite local businesses! 
(including "Local Wine Shop" in case you have your always reliable, friendly neighborhood Wine Authorities in mind)

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Why, thank you!      
Real Customer Comment:

"I love these wines. It's always great to try your new assortment!" (referring to the Six for $60) 

  -  Leslie G.       

    

Tasty Tuesday:
(Almost) 
April Fool's! 
This Tuesday, March 31st, we present our FREE
 midweek wine tasting!  Every Tuesday is tasty...
5:00 - 7:00 pm
   Prepare to be dynamically un-fooled this Tuesday as we celebrate this year's impending April 1st by eroding a few falsehoods about grape varietals which are well-overdue for quashing.
   Join us as we explore the fact that there's not anything inherently oaky or buttery about Chardonnay. We'll explain why there's no whisper more sweetness in Riesling that's had all of its sugar fermented into alcohol than there would be in a wine made from any other grape. We'll also tear right into the mystifyingly still fashionable anti-Merlot sentiment whose foundation was laid by overproduction and cemented by Hollywood. You won't get fooled again!
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
.
Hips Don't Lie! 

(Northeastern Italy)
   Hot on the heels (pun absolutely intended) of last week's tasting of Italy's foot-shaped south, we're setting our sights further north, honing on on the country's shapely hip! Italy's northeastern regions of Friuly, the Veneto, and Lombardy (yeah, yeah, more north-central than northeast on that one) provide us with a few of the nation's most singular and unmistakable specialties. Join us as we hone in on the beautiful bubbles of Franciacorta, the elegant minerality and balance of Soave, the exotic perfume of Friuli's Friulano, and the concentrated black nectar of Valpolicella and its resplendent Ripasso. Shake your booty, Italy! 

 

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Monzio Compagnoni 
Franciacorta Brut Rosato 2008 

80% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay 

(Lombardy, Italy)

DELICATE MOUSSE, POMMEGRANATE & WHITE CHERRY, GENTLE SPICE
Not far from Milan, Lombardy's Franciacorta region has provided Italy since 1967 with an official (and very eloquent) answer to France's Champagne. Viticulture has existed here, however, much longer. Today, both the grapes used and the methods employed are, by law, modeled after those of Champagne while guidelines and restrictions are, impressively, even more stringent...
 
 
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Inama
Soave Classico 2013 

{organic} 100% Garganega 

(Verona, Italy)

RIPE PEAR & GOLDEN APPLE, VIBRANT FLINT, RICH ALMOND The province of Verona's signature white specialty hails from the region of Soave and is forged from its native grape, Garganega. The Inama estate is among the brightest stars of the area, robustly championing both the grape and its terroir. Stefano Inama follows in his father's footsteps, producing Soave that harnesses Garganega's potential for quality as opposed to its vigorous tendency toward quantity... 

  

  

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Visintini Friulano
Visintini
Friulano 2012 
{organic} 100% Friulano

(Friuli, Italy)

RIPE QUINCE & APPLE SKIN, WAXY ALMOND,
HONEY & GINGER
The Friulano grape's Bordelais origins are belied by its contemporary northeastern Italian name, but this signature specialty of Friuli and neighboring Slovenia has recently found the appreciation of a wider audience than ever before. Brimming with flavors that find their balance happily between the familiar and the exotic, this...
Corte Majoli 
Valpolicella Ripasso 2011 
65% Corvina, 30% Rondinella,
5% Molinara   

(Verona, Italy)

BLACK CHERRY & PRUNE, CLOVE, LEATHER & TOASTY OAK
Verona's Valpolicella region is home to several distinct styles including basic Valpolicella, the dried grape version called "Amarone", and the "Ripasso" style featured here (which falls somewhere between) -- all starring the Corvina grape. The technique involved in Ripasso is to first make a regular wine from standard grapes, but in February, dried grapes...
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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):

 

Chauvinière
Muscadet 

$9.99 on sale

 

Labranche-Laffont 

Pacherenc du Vic Bilh 

Sec

$21.99 on sale

 

Dr. Heyden 

Silvaner

"Alte Reben"

$15.99 on sale

Terrabianca

Favorita

$14.99 on sale

 

Reds (65˚F):

 

La Casaccia 

Barbera de Monferrato

"Giuanìn" 

$15.99 on sale

 

Meinklang

Zweigelt

"Graupert"

$17.99 on sale

 

Lua Cheia 

Douro

"Lua Nova" 

$11.99 on sale

 

Chateau Marjolet 
Cotes du Rhone Village
Laudun 

$16.99 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):

 

Chateau Marjolet  
Cotes du Rhone Blanc 

$14.99 on sale

 

Estiban Martin 

Chardonnay 

"Unoaked"

$8.99 on sale

 

Martinsancho

Verdejo

$18.99 on sale

Akarregi Txiki  

Txakolina Getariako 

$13.99 on sale
  

Montinore

"Borealis"

$15.99 on sale

 

Palazzone

Orvieto Classico 

"Terre Vineate"

$15.99 on sale

 

Jean-Paul Brun 

Beaujolais Rosé

$16.99 on sale

Dr. H Thanisch 

Riesling Bernkasteler

Kabinett 

$19.99 on sale

 

 

Reds (65º F):

 

Viña Aliaga 

Tempranillo 

$9.99 on sale

 

Lua Cheia 

Douro 

"Andreza"

$14.99 on sale

 

Mas Codina 

Cabernet Sauvignon 

$15.99 on sale

 

Palama
Primitivo
"Arcangelo" 

$16.99 on sale

 

Tempore

Garnacha

"G"

$14.99

 

Casa Ibidini 

Nero d'Avola 

$12.99 on sale


Mas Montel 

"Jericho"

$17.99 on sale

 

La Cossacia 

Freisa

"Monfriorenza 

$16.99 on sale

 

Calcu

Cabernet Franc 

$16.99 on sale

  

Seifried

Pinot Noir

"Old Coach Road" 

$19.99 on sale

 

Hyatt 

Cabernet Sauvignon 

$11.99 on sale

 

Pyren Vineyard 
Cabernet Sauvignon 

$23.99 on sale

  

Pulenta Estate 

Malbec

"I" 

$28.99

 

La Garrigon 

Cotes du Rhone Rouge 

$11.99 on sale


Chateau de Mendis 

Cadillac

Cotes de Bordeaux 

$14.99 on sale

  

Domaine Bardin 

Coteaux du Giennois

 $19.99 on sale 

 


Composition

 

Upcoming  Tastings!*  

 
 
Saturday Tasting
3/28/15
"Hips Don't Lie"
(Northeastern Italy)

Tasty Tuesday
3/31/15
(Almost) April Fool's!
Saturday Tasting 
4/4/15
Islands of Wine

 Tasty Tuesday 
4/8/15
New from the West Coast 
*Subject to change!

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  • Country Breakfast
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  • Applewood 
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  • Peppered

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