Taste Opus One vs. $25 Rivals!

Blind Taste Opus One

Saturday, February 28th, 2008
11am - 8pm

Ahhh, Opus One. The brainchild of the late Robert Mondavi and Baron Phillipe de Rothschild that is a Napa Valley landmark. You may not even like wine and you have heard of Opus One. The real question is - If you were to taste the wine and not know that it is Opus One, could you pick it out? If you did not know the price, could not see the label etc. would it still taste better to you than a wine that costs 83% less? Well, it's time to find out!

That is why we're playing "Find the Opus One" this Saturday. It's simple really. The wines will all be tasted blind. One of them will be Opus One and the others will be an assortment of wines at every price point from a number of different regions. All you have to do is taste and pick your favorite. Yes, that's right, your favorite. If that's the Opus One, then great, if not, well that's OK too. You may be surprised as to what your favorites actually are.

Some come on in for some tasting fun on Saturday and enjoy some great wine!

Cheers!

FREE Tasting Thursday with Atalaya!

FREE Tasting Thursday

February 26th, 6-8pm

10% off all wines being poured

Jorge Ordonez is one of our favorite importers and the Gil Family runs one of the best wine operations in Spain (Juan Gil, Clio, El Nido etc.). This dynamic duo has just come out with a new wine called Atalaya and to put it bluntly - this wine rocks! Therefore, we have decided to let you taste it for FREE this Thursday (along with some other tasty treats)! The wines we will be pouring include:

2007 Atalaya
2007 Wallace Brook Pinot Noir
2007 Wente Morning Fog Chardonnay
2007 Strong Arms Shiraz

So, come on in with friends and try some great new wines! We'll see you Thursday!

Priorat Tasting this Saturday!

Eric Solomon Selections / Priorat Wine Tasting
Saturday - February 21st, 2009
11am-8pm

Priorat is a lunar landscape of a wine region. But from its wild and ragged turf a few dedicated (no, let’s call them obsessed) winemakers coax powerful, intense wines. Those wines bring ever-lofty prices, and are scoring equally lofty rankings from wine writers.

It wasn’t always so. In 1985, nobody had heard of the ancient wine-producing region, at least not in relation to quality wine. But Rene Barbier, along with his godson Alvaro Palacios and a few other twenty-something’s, saw a brilliant future in Priorat’s long-forgotten wine-glorious past.

Alvaro and the gang have proven their prescience; and their wines are justly prized and pricey. While the prices vary according to the perceived quality of the vintage, there have been some very good vintages of late.

2006 is powerful and rich, though 2004 may some day be viewed as better than 2005 and 2006, and all three are challenged by the excellence of 2001. No matter. Those four vintages are among the best ever seen in Priorat. 2001 is intense and becoming complex; 2004 is balanced and focused. 2005 and 2006 are more powerful in style and for many Priorat drinkers that should be reason enough to jump all over any of the great producers.

But don’t dawdle. The 2007 vintage doesn't have any of the cachet of 2005 and 2006. So these will disappear fairly quickly, as people decide to grab enough to last them for a year or two.

And the region doesn’t make a lot of wine. As crazy as it sounds, very little of the Priorat region is planted to wine, or at least currently tended by winegrowers; most of the hillsides betray abandoned vineyards. Growing winegrapes in Priorat is too difficult, and at the impossibly low yields typical of Priorat’s rugged vineyards, there’s no opportunity to make a reasonably priced commercial wine. Instead, a vigneron has to make a strong and powerful wine, worthy of the highest prices for wines sold in the US market. To do anything less will result in so-so wines that demand to be sold at those same crazy prices. It’s just too expensive to make wines in Priorat.

We'll see you Saturday and Happy Tasting,

Doug Frost, MS MW
Master Sommelier & Master of Wine

FREE Tasting this Thursday

FREE Tasting Thursday

February 19th, 6-8pm

10% off all wines being poured

Deals are abound and we're going to be pouring some this Thursday! Marie Price of Freedom Beverage is going to be here Thursday night tasting some brand new wines and the best part is that they are FREE! Here are the wines she will be pouring:

2004 Bott-Geyl Pinot Gris d'Alsace
2004 Evans & Tate Margaret River Shiraz
2007 Pavilion Napa Cabernet
2007 Domaine Gerbeaux Macon Solutre

So, come on in with friends and try some great new wines! We'll see you Thursday!

Purchase Eric Solomon's new wine - Evodia!

Purchase Eric Solomon's New Wine!

Who: A custom cuvee for Eric Solomon

What: 100% Garnacha (Grenache)

When: From vineyards planted up 100 years ago

Where: High altitude vineyards in the mountainous village of Atea, planted on pure slate soils

Why: Grenache this great usually goes for twice the price!

If you happened to miss our tasting last Thursday with Charlotte's favorite Wine Importer Eric Solomon, then you missed the opportunity to taste one of the best $8 wines in the world. We bought the entire first lot of Eric's new wine, Evodia, that is coming to North Carolina and we are now going to offer you a chance to buy it at a 20% discount!

56 cases are on the way (set to arrive in about 2-3 weeks) and over the last 4 days we have sold 30 of them - so there are 26 cases left at the price of $8 a bottle. Buy 1, buy 6, heck, buy 36 but don't miss out on this great value!

Call us @ 704-442-4024 to order yours today!

2007 Evodia Garnacha

Regular Price $9.99

Pre-Sale Price: $8.00

Save 20%!

15% off Cases and 40% off others!

15% off Mixed and Full Cases!

Thursday February 12 - Sunday February 15th

One thing our customers know for sure is that we will not be beat on price. We want you to feel comfortable knowing that you are getting the best price possible on your wine - and we also want you to know that we are constantly sourcing some of the best deals in the Country for you. That being said, in addition to the 15% discount on cases we are offering this weekend we are offering the deals listed below (all deal wines will be on the machine to taste!). All wines listed below are listed at the lowest price in the United States - enjoy!!!

2004 Bott-Geyl Pinot Gris
Winestore Price: $12.99/btl (Reg $16.95 a bottle)
Save 23%
Lowest Price in the United States!
Only 10 Cases Available

2003 L'Aventure Estate Syrah
Winestore Price: $24.99/btl (Reg $44.99 a bottle)
Save 45%
Lowest Price in the United States!
Only 8 Cases Available

2004 Evans & Tate Margaret River Shiraz
Winestore Price: $9.99/btl (Reg $16.99 a bottle)
Save 41%
Lowest Price in the United States!
Only 15 Cases Available

2005 Domaine Marcoux Lorentine Lirac
Winestore Price: $14.99/btl (Reg $28.99 a bottle)
Save 48%
Lowest Price in the United States!
Only 16 Cases Available

2004 San Vicente Rioja
Winestore Price: $29.99/btl (Reg $49.99 a bottle)
Save 40%
Lowest Price in the United States!
Only 20 bottles Available

2005 Pesquie Artemia
Winestore Price: $29.99/btl (Reg $47.99 a bottle)
Save 37%
Lowest Price in the United States!
Only 12 bottles Available

Deals run Thursday - Sunday so stop in and pick some up!!!

Meet Eric Solomon and Taste His New Wine!

Meet Eric Solomon and Taste His New Wine! (for FREE!)

Thursday February 12th

6pm-8pm

World Renowned Wine Importer and Charlotte Resident Eric Solomon will be here in the store for our weekly FREE tasting on Thursday February 12th, 2009 to unveil / taste his new wine called "Evodia" as well as some other gems from his portfolio in what we are calling a Garnacha Gala! We'll be pouring six Solomon wines and the best part is that it is FREE. The wines we will be pouring are:

2007 Evodia Garnacha (you will be the first in the US to try it!)
2007 Domaine La Garrigue Cuvee Romaine
2005 Pesquie Terrasses
2006 Marge Priorat
2005 Domaine de la Janasse "Cuvee Daniel"
2005 Giraud "Les Grenaches de Pierres" (a $70 bottle of wine!)

So, come on in with friends, try some great new wines and meet one of the most respected wine personalities in the world! We'll see you Thursday!

Spanish Blockbuster - Save 50%

Maybe the best $15 wine offer ever!

2004 Celler de Cantonella Cervoles Tinto

$14.99 a bottle (save $15 or 50%)

Regular price $29.99

This wine retails elsewhere for $30! Click here to see

Less than 20 cases available at this price!

We are not usually prone to hyperbole but this is seriously one of the best offers we have ever put out to our customers. This Spanish blockbuster that normally retails for $30 is now available to you for only $14.99. The Cervoles tinto is a blend of 40% Tempranillo, 25% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Garnacha and 10% Merlot aged for 12 months in French oak.

At this price it's worth a try for sure -if you love Spanish treats be sure to grab a case!

This wine is available on a first come first serve basis! Call us @ 704-442-4024 to reserve yours today!

Meet Eric Solomon

SAVE THE DATE
Thursday February 12th
FREE Tasting with Eric Solomon

Be sure to mark next Thursday February 12th down from 6pm-8pm to attend our best FREE Tasting yet! Come meet International Wine Celebrity and Charlotte Resident Eric Solomon as we unveil his brand new project! The wines being poured are going to be amazing!

Taste Petite Sirah this Weekend!

Taste Petite Sirah
Friday February 6th - Sunday February 8th
All Day Long

Petite Sirah has become quite the hit lately - but most of the sole focus in NC has been on Jeff Runquist's "R" Petite Sirah. Now that the "R" is gone until the summer we decided to put together a tasting to show you that there are some other amazing showstoppers out there in the Petite Sirah universe. Prices from $7 to $40 will be represented - here is a list of some of what we will be trying! Get ready to get rocked by one of California's most powerful wines!

2006 Petite Petit
2007 McManis Petite Sirah
2005 Earthquake Petite Sirah
2006 Coastal Vines Petite Sirah
2006 Robert Foley Petite Sirah
2005 Elizabeth Spencer Petite Sirah
2005 August Briggs Petite Sirah

So, come on in with friends and try some great new wines!

A Video Message from your Friend Doug Frost

FREE Tasting this Thursday!

FREE Tasting Thursday

January 5th, 6-8pm

10% off all wines being poured

It's time for some brand spanking new wines to be poured at a FREE tasting and that's exactly what we are going to do! In addition to a little bubbly from our friends at Schramsberg, Erin Alston of Prestige is going to be here Thursday night tasting three brand new wines and the best part is that they are FREE! Here are the wines she will be pouring:

N/V Schramsberg Mirabelle
2006 Mas Carlot
2006 Kaiken Cabernet
2005 Primaterra Syrah

So, come on in with friends and try some great new wines! We'll see you Thursday!