Thursday, February 27, 2014

FREE Tasting This Saturday!

FREE Goldschmidt Tasting!
Saturday March 1st, 2014
2pm-4pm




FEATURING:

2011 Katherine Goldschmidt Cabernet
Winery Price: $21.99
Winestore Price: $16.95 (net)
SAVE 23%


2011 Hilary Goldschmidt Cabernet
Winery Price: $34.99 (Click HERE to see)
Winestore Price: $24.99 (net)
SAVE 29%


Like we said yesterday, we knew we had to do a free tasting with these beauties when they arrived, if for no other reason than we wanted to make sure as many of you get to try these wines as possible. So bazinga, there you have it - 2pm to 4pm this coming Saturday you can get your Cabernet on and drink some fun juice. Not to mention the fact that having a free tasting opens up some spots on the tasting machine to put up some gems (wink wink nod nod).

So short and sweet today folks. We hope to see you on Saturday!!!

To order you can:


Order ONLINE by clicking HERE

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Hilary & Katherine Goldschmidt Cabernet!

Goldschmidt Cabernets Are Back!


2011 Katherine Goldschmidt Cabernet
Winery Price: $21.99
Winestore Price: $16.95 (net)
SAVE 23%


2011 Hilary Goldschmidt Cabernet
Winery Price: $34.99 (Click HERE to see)
Winestore Price: $24.99 (net)
SAVE 29%


Soooo...the winner of the 2014 Silver Oak Blind Tasting, 2011 Katherine Goldschmidt has finally arrived (it got held up a bit because of the weather). So if you have pre-ordered the wine we are probably calling you right now! For those of you that did not get in on the feeding frenzy, we were able to add an extra pallet of wine to our order so we have another 56 cases to go around.

That brings us to our second arrival of the day - another 56 cases of 2011 Hilary Goldschmidt Cabernet (remember, the Opus One wine?). Now, we were told the last drop we had the first week of January was it, it was all gone. Yet we still have people come in every week looking for more. Well, the winery called and said they could add 56 more cases to this order. Even though our last drop was a "thank you for you business", what was this one? Where did it come from? Did another distributor not take theirs? Well, my grandmother taught me to never look a gift horse in the mouth, or as I later heard the literal translation is "A given horse's teeth are not inspected." Yeah. So we just took the wine. Is this all of this vintage. Supposedly so...and we're not going to temp fate again. So into the wine closet goes a case.

If you haven't been riding the Goldschmidt train then you are missing out. Good news is we will also be tasting these wines for free this weekend (more on that tomorrow). For now, the chum is in the water and the sharks are circling. Let the feeding frenzy begin.

To order you can:


Order ONLINE by clicking HERE

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

Friday, February 21, 2014

Ridiculous California Value For $9.99

2012 Ca' Momi Rosso di Napa

Winery Price: $18.00 (Click HERE to see)
Winestore Price: $9.99
SAVE 44%

SAVE AN ADDITIONAL 10% IN A MIXED CASE!

So, one of our wine reps pops in a few weeks ago, and is all "This wine is an amazing value!!" If we had  a penny for each time we heard that, we'd have exactly 1.367 million pennies.(Yes, we are keeping count) And it's from a winery called Ca' Momi...never heard of it.

Low and behold, even coming in with zero expectations, this little gem really blew us away. Maybe it is that Cabernet and Zin blends really appeal to us (this one also has some Merlot and Petite Sirah). Our best selling wine is a blend of, you guessed it, Cabernet and Zin. Maybe it is just that the wine is delicious and sub $10, which is right in our kill zone. Maybe we have no idea what we are talking about- you'll have to decide that for yourself!

All that said, we present you with this field blend from the scrumptious 2012 vintage, for less than $10. We're pretty sure we saw Lord Grantham popping the cork on this recently on Downton Abbey... so they have that going for them (before you call us to confirm, this was a joke).

So swing on by to taste- yes we will have it on the machines at all three stores! We hope you love it as much as we do!



To order you can:

Order ONLINE by clicking HERE

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Wine Olympics Blind Tasting!

The Wine Olympics
BLIND TASTING
Saturday February 22nd
11am - 8pm



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Blind taste wines from the following countries!
FRANCE
UNITED STATES
SPAIN
AUSTRALIA


So it is the Olympics and all, and they only happen every four years, so we have to do something, right? It would be wrong to just let it pass. So we decided to put on our own version of the Wine Winter Olympics. NBC may or may not be covering the event - we're still in negotiations for the TV rights. You know how these things go....

So here is how it works. We'll have eight wines blind on the tasting machines. Two wines from each country. They will be in no particular order. You go through and taste all eight. At the end of your tasting you vote for your favorite wine. At the end of the day we will add up all the votes and next week present you with a Gold, Silver and Bronze medal winner. We'll also, as we are known to do, probably put together some amazing deals on the winners. You know, like an endorsement deal for them.

Added bonus to the Wine Olympics...our accommodations may be nicer than Sochi and you don't have to fly all the way to mother Russia. So swing on by this weekend, taste some great wine, perhaps have a little fun, and hang out with us. There may be a chance we will have a speed skating rink built inside the store for fun, but we're not sure our lawyers will let us do it...something about liability or something.

See you this Saturday!

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The Best White Wine You Have Never Heard Of...

2013 Gramona Gessami

Release Price: $19.99 (Click HERE to see)
Winestore Price: $14.99
SALE Price: $12.99 (net)
SAVE 35%

SALE RUNS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19th - SUNDAY FEBRUARY 23rd, 2014


Given it is going to be 72 degrees outside, we have decided to go ahead and throw out our first white wine offering of the year - and it is a doozie.

One of the coolest wines you've never heard of, the Gramona Gessami bottling is a lip-smackingly dry blend of  Sauvignon Blanc, Gewurztraminer and Moscatel. Gramona is the best cava producer, period, but it turns out they can make lovely still wine too. We have been drinking this stuff for years, but it suffers a bit of an identity crisis. The bottle, the Gessami is in, is as tall as they come and people automatically assume the wine is going to be sweet, and tend to stay away. So we are here to tell you - ignore the crazy tall bottle and just trust us. If you love Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon Blanc (or even Conundrum) this is a must try. Also, as an added bonus, the label is in braille so should you find yourself searching your wine cabinet in a power outage you are guaranteed to find the right bottle.

We'll have this little gem up on the machines at all 3 stores for you to try through Sunday. We think you will love it as much as we do!!

To order you can:

Order ONLINE by clicking HERE

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

Friday, February 14, 2014

Salmon Creek SALE!

Salmon Creek For $4.99 Per Bottle!
Only $59.88 per case!



Regular Price: $6.99
SALE Price: $4.99 (net)
SAVE 29%


SALE Runs February 14th - February 16th, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day!

We get it. We all got stuck in our homes for a couple of days and now wine supplies are running low. It's only natural. So we're gonna run a Salmon Creek special this weekend so you can get the bar restocked without having to break the bank. The question is, what price is not going to break the bank?

Well, how does $59.88 per case sound? Ever since we started carrying Salmon Creek it has become the "go-to" wine for your house party, your daily glass of wine, your wedding, your tailgate, your...you get the idea.

Here is the offering:
Any Salmon Creek Wine (Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Cabernet, Pinot Noir)
$4.99 net per bottle or $59.88 per case


Sooooo - save a couple of dollars, enjoy some super tasty wine, and impress all of your wine snob friends once they ask how much the wine cost!

To order you can:

Order ONLINE by clicking HERE

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

Thursday, February 13, 2014

BIG Tasting This Weekend!

Thermonuclear Fruit Bomb Tasting
Saturday February 15th, 2014
11am - 8pm


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Featuring:
2011 Caymus Special Selection
2010 Darioush "Capataz" Malbec
2012 Mollydooker "Carnival of Love"
2009 Clos Erasmus "Laurel"
2011 Whitehall Lane "Tre Leoni"
2012 Belle Glos "Las Alturas" Pinot Noir
2011 Lafage Tessellae GSM
2011 Mondavi Napa Valley Cabernet

 
Nothing is going to warm you up after the crazy weather this week like gigantic full throttle red wine! Every couple of months we put together a tasting with the biggest wines we can find out on the market. People absolutely LOVE really big wine. Wine that stains the teeth, enough alcohol to run your hybrid and thick jammy, fruit. Well, we decided to go out and find some of the absolute biggest flavored wines that exist on the planet. Big Garnacha from Spain, gigantic Shiraz from Australia, and even some monster Cabernet from powerhouse Caymus Vineyards. There are some wine writers that would describe these wines as "Hedonistic Thermonuclear Fruit Bombs" and that is exactly what these are...heck, one of these wines was recently described by one of the most powerful wine writers in the world as "a modern day legend in the making"!

Sooo - if you are looking to enjoy some really amazing wine this weekend, a few of the gems that we will have on the machine on Saturday definitely qualify in the "cult" wine category.

Call your best friends, draw straws to see who's going to be the D.D. and bring everyone to the tasting!  The wines are going to be AMAZING!!!

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Darioush Malbec and A Snow Weather Special!

2010 Darioush "Capataz" Malbec

Release Price: $49.99
Winestore Price: $39.99 (net)
SAVE 20%

LOWEST PRICE IN THE USA


All three stores will be closed today so we can go play in the snow, but that does not mean we can't offer you a deal!

Also - snow weather special! First person to e-mail us a picture of our logo created in the snow gets a bottle of Capataz on the house! You can e-mail your entry HERE.

Back in early January we decided we needed to carry a nicer Malbec for all you Malbec enthusiasts out there. After much searching we decided on Darioush Capataz Malbec. We picked up the rest of the 2009 vintage our distributor had in stock and without even sending out a newsletter, you guys bought up our entire stock in just one week. Message received...you want more Capataz.

The Malbec grape has generally only proven interesting in the elevated foothills of the Argentine Andes, and Napa winemaker Darioush Khaledi has a knack for turning interesting into amazing. This is the first non Napa wine that Darioush has crafted, and he has only rolled out a measly 400 six packs. Hailing from the Tupungato region of Mendoza, this wine is all about power and plushness.

So here is the 2010 Capataz for you, just arrived in time for the storm and ready to roll! If big, intense and powerful Malbec is right in your wheelhouse....you're gonna need you some of this!

To order you can:

Order ONLINE for in store pickup / shipping by clicking HERE

or starting tomorrow:

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Insane Value From Whitehall Lane!

2011 Whitehall Lane Tre Leoni


Winery Price: $23.99
Winestore Price: $19.99 (net)

SAVE 17%

This wine was a "sleeper" hit of 2013. It basically was on cruise control and sold like crazy, without any of us really giving it the push it so clearly deserved. So due to our "support" of this wine last year, in comes a better price for this year. Now that this wine has fallen below $20 retail (last year price was $23.99) we have to say that this is some insane value. No, it's not $5 or something like that, but in the middle of a snowstorm curled up next to the fire this is a home run!

Whitehall Lane has long been one of the most well respected producers in Napa Valley. So here you have one of Napa Valley's most consistent and well respected producers offering a delightful blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. Why this blend? Because if delicious fruit is good, a lot of delicious fruit just has to be better!

We'll have this gem up on the machine at all three stores for you to taste, and we feel pretty confident you'll love it as much as we do!

We need to get this wine in a blind tasting asap!

To order you can:

Order ONLINE for in store pickup or shipping by clicking HERE

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Mollydooker Tasting and Deals!

Mollydooker Tasting!
Saturday February 8th, 2014
11am - 8pm


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Featuring:
2012 Mollydooker "The Boxer" Shiraz          $19.99 (net)
2012 Mollydooker "Maitre D" Cabernet        $19.99 (net)
2012 Mollydooker "Two Left Feet" Blend     $19.99 (net)
2011 Mollydooker "Blue Eyed Boy" Shiraz  $24.99 (net)
2011 Mollydooker Enchanted Path                $39.99 (net)
2011 Mollydooker Carnival Of Love               $39.99 (net)


Mollydooker wines burst onto the scene with the 2005 vintage and the world has not been the same since. Their style of over the top Shiraz, Cabernet and red blends from Australia have become the darling of the US wine world over the last several years. Well, nothing confirms or dispels the hype factor like a weekend tasting with your friends, so this Saturday we are going to load up the machines at all 3 stores with a strong sampling of the 2011 / 2012 Mollydooker lineup, including some insane deals on Carnival of Love and Enchanted Path.

Can't make the tasting but would love to order some wine at these oh so lovely prices? No problemo. To order you can:

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

We hope to see you Saturday and as always, THANK YOU for your business!

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Epic 2005 California Cabernet

2005 Laurel Glen Cabernet

Winestore Price: $59.99 (net)

If you think California Cabernet is most exciting when it combines the state’s lush fruit with grace, balance and even mineral notes, you might already be a fan of Laurel Glen Cabernets, grown in a remarkable place called Sonoma Mountain. The elevation, angle and aspect are such that Laurel Glen’s vineyard sees more hours of sunshine than most, but less direct heat and baking sun than other comparable spots amongst California’s favored Cabernet vineyards. These are all VERY good things.

You probably know Laurel Glen, I mean we gush over this wine time and time again. Heck, we even had the owner here last year pouring the 1992 Laurel Glen for you at one of our best tastings of the year. So now I can tell you that we have a sweetheart offer for you directly from the wonderful people at Laurel Glen.

As a thank you to the wonderful customers at winestore. for their support, they have released to you 40 six packs of 2005 Laurel Glen Estate Cabernet. That's right. 9 year old California Cabernet aged at the winery and delivered to you in perfect condition. Folks, I can count the number of times something like this happens on one hand.

So here is your chance, just in time for Valentine's Day (yes, it is next week people!) to grab a California legend, from a legendary vintage at a consumer friendly price for such a treasure.

We only get 40 six packs but we hope you enjoy them as much as we do - we're taking a bottle home tonight!

To order you can:

Order ONLINE by clicking HERE


Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662