Taste Wines from Our Favorite New Winery!

Taste Wines from Our New Favorite Winery!


Saturday October 24th - Sunday October 25th

All Day Long!

International Wine Celebrity / Importer and Charlottean Eric Solomon is well known for bringing "the next big thing" to the United States - and his new import, La Peira, might very well be "the next big thing". We have gone completely ga-ga over these wines - but chances are you probably have never heard of the winery or ever even tasted their wines. Their flagship wine "La Peira" has an annual worldwide production of only 1,500 bottles (compare that to the 420,000 bottle production of Caymus Cabernet) and even their less expensive offerings are offered only in minuscule quantities. That is why we are more than excited to be the first in North Carolina and one of the first in the Country to showcase these wines for you.

Here is just a little of what the wine press has been saying:

"The flagship wine from this new venture is easily going to be the next great global cult wine. Think Clos Erasmus or Masseto; that’s the level of quality that this wine brings!"
- Gary Vaynerchuk

"This wine will ring changes on your palate for a decade. The deep alluvial fan that is the basis for this site is only barely tilted, as it might be in St. Helena or Rutherford, St.-Estephe or Pomerol ... and these comparisons will not seem inapt once you experience the quality of La Peira’s wines."
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

"The most apt analogy, perhaps, is the publisher’s slush pile—that legendary stack of unsolicited manuscripts where, sandwiched between laborious first novels, eccentric diets, and the childhood reminiscences of the elderly, the house reader dreams of finding a golden text to wave at cynical seniors. So with the samples delivered to the homes of those who write about wine. All deserve a taste, most a note, but I’ve never come across one that rearranged my inner pantheon in the way that truly great wine can. Never, that is, until a few weeks ago. Then it was that a relatively ramshackle package of boxes arrived from the Languedoc containing 11 bottles and a text. The bottles (cask samples, in the main) had beautiful, austerely classical labels with puzzling, hard-to-pronounce names. No UK importer, let alone retailer. Just an apologetic e-mail, a few days earlier, from one of the wine’s creators, Rob Dougan, alluding to their presence a year before at a tasting in Bordeaux that I’d been unable to attend. Enough waffle. These are the best unsolicited samples anyone has ever sent me."
-Andrew Jefford

If that wasn't enough to get you excited, you can check out a great video by clicking here. Now...after all of that if you are not even the least intrigued to come be one of the first to experience these wines then I am not sure what else we can do!

Here are two of the wines we will be featuring:

2005 Las Flors de La Peira


Only 4,400 bottles produced

Regular Price: $55.00
Winestore Price: $39.99 (net)
Save 27%

Hyperbole aside, this is one of the best wines we have tasted in 2009, regardless of price. Buy one to lay down in your wine cabinet, buy one for your loved one, buy one for your boss, or just buy one because this is just brilliant wine from a brilliant vintage at a great price.

2007 Les Obriers de la Peira

Regular Price: $26.00
Winestore Price: $19.99
Save 23% (Save an extra 5% on six bottles or an extra 10% on 12 bottles or more)

An extraordinary value from the super hyped 2007 vintage, we think Robert Parker's Wine Advocate said it best when they stated "In my fantasy world where the authorities require every Languedoc vigneron to protect some old Cinsault and Carignan vines, they should all be required as well to taste La Peira’s 2007 Les Obriers de la Peira". This stuff flat out rocks!!

Would you like to taste more amazing and hard to find wine? Your wish is our command! This weekend we will also be tasting:


2007 Philippe Cambie Cotes du Rhone Calendal


A Winestore Exclusive in North Carolina

Only 4,500 bottles produced

A mere 48 bottles have come into the state and this intense superstar is another must try from the Solomon portfolio. If you love all things Rhone (and yes, we do) then you are going to want to see what all the hype about this wine is all about!!