Mystery Tasting!

FREE Tasting this Saturday!
Saturday April 27th, 2013
1-3pm

What are we tasting?
Mystery Red Wine from an Iconic Napa Winery (2006 Vintage)
Winery Price: $50.00 per bottle
Winestore Price: $24.99 net per bottle
SAVE 50% or $25 per bottle!


We are constantly trying to work deals for you - like every single day we are scouring the world for crazy discounts. As is the case with the best deals we find, we are not allowed to publicly tell you what the wine is going to be (you're going to have to come into the store and see for yourself!), but what we can tell you is that the savings are monumental, the winery is top flight, the vintage is awesome, and the juice is outstanding. Not enough to get you excited? How about this:

Right now, the lowest price in the USA on this wine is $50.00 - our per bottle price is $24.99 per bottle - a savings of $25 or 50%. I mean, that is CRAZY!

So yes, this Saturday we are tasting a mystery wine - and while it's not exactly priced at what we would call an "everyday drinker", any time I can buy a Yacht for the price of a Boston Whaler outboard, I usually don't pass it up!

Swing by any of our three stores this Saturday from 1-3pm, drink some amazing juice, maybe buy a bottle for your Saturday dinner with family or friends, and, above all else, have a great time!

Last Call!

Last Call on Mestis!


Mustiguillo Mestis Red
Release Price: $15.99
Last Call Price: $12.99 (net)
SAVE 23%

Mustiguillo Mestis Blanco
Release Price: $15.99
Last Call Price: $12.99 (net)
SAVE 23%

We've been working with the wines of Bodegas Mustiguillo for a LONG time. We still have some of the ridiculously awesome 2004 Finca Terrerazo in our wine cabinets, and as it warms up outside we find ourselves drinking the white wine as quickly as we take down Fresca.

Bodegas Mustiguillo is a champion of indigenous Spanish varietals. The Mestis Blanco (white wine) is mostly made of a little grape no one knows called Merseguera, with a bit of help from Viognier and Malvasia. It is a new southern Spanish white that is completely charming and utterly fascinating. The Mestis Red is a blend of Bobal, Cabernet and Tempranillo. Most people have no idea how important Bobal could be to their lives, if only they will try it. Mustiguillo has almost single-handedly proven how great the grape can be and here they've tossed in a few percentages of Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon.

Well, Mustiguillo is no longer working with Eric Solomon Selections so until they find a new importer, what is left in the US is all that is available. Best to go ahead and let you know about this tragedy so those of you who have made these wines your daily drinkers can lock down a good supply :)

We have 25 cases of white and 56 cases of red available and then it is no more :(

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

Jeff Runquist Tasting!

Jeff Runquist Tasting!
Saturday April 20th, 2013
11am - 8pm



Featuring:
2011 Jeff Runquist Petite Sirah                   ($29.99)
2011 Jeff Runquist Amador Barbera           ($24.99)
2010 Jeff Runquist Sangiovese               ($24.99)
2010 Jeff Runquist Petit Verdot               ($24.99)
2010 Jeff Runquist Zinfandel                      ($24.99)
2010 Jeff Runquist Colina Cabernet       ($24.99)
2010 Jeff Runquist 1448 Red Blend           ($17.99)

The new vintage of Charlotte favorite Jeff Runquist Petite Sirah has arrived and well, that just means we have to have a Jeff Runquist tasting to taste all of his amazing juice! We'll have the new vintage of Barbera, the new vintage of Sangiovese (our personal favorite) and a host of other Runquist gems. There is a little something for everyone when we do these tastings. Cab, Sangiovese, Petite Sirah - and on the tasting machines you can even create your own personal blend to taste (just kidding! Not really! Maybe we are maybe we aren't). Good news is we are going to be dropping into the mid 40s at night this weekend and that is a little something called perfect Runquist drinking weather.

These are big wines, and the definition of fun drinking. Your dinner party guests will swoon over this stuff. Your neighbor that you dropped a bottle off for will be forever thankful. Drinking wine is fun and when you put some Jeff Runquist in the glass the fun factor goes up by several basis points. Oh - and did we mention you can't buy these wines for less anywhere in NC!

As always, THANK YOU for your business and we hope to see you this weekend!

41% Off For $6.99 Per Bottle!

2011 Casa Castillo Monastrell


Release Price: $12.00
Winestore Price: $9.99
SALE Price: $6.99 (net)
SAVE 42%

Lowest Price in the USA!

This deal is ridiculous. We're just going to tell you that up front. We have offered A LOT of really high quality inexpensive wine over the last seven years but at $6.99, there might not be anything that touches this bottle of wine. 100% Monastrell (also known as Mourvedre across the border in France), we are talking big fruit, soft tannins, and extreme pleasure for the cost of one glass of wine at the cheapest restaurant in town.

We only have 56 cases available at this price, and then it is back to $10. First come, first served until we run out.

We hope you enjoy 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

1st Annual Wine Masters!

The Wine Masters
Saturday April 13th, 2013
11am - 8pm




Time for our first ever "Wine Masters" tasting event to go right along with the Masters Golf Tournament. We'll be putting eight wines up against each other, each representing one of three groups - "Major Champions", "PGA Wins But No Majors" and "Looking For Their First Win". Representing each category we have:

Major Champions
2009 Benjamin Romeo Contador
2009 Laurel Glen Estate Cabernet
2010 Caymus Cabernet

PGA Wins But No Majors
2009 Banshee Mordecai
2010 Whitehall Lane Tre Leoni
2010 Jeff Runquist 1448

Looking For Their First Win
2010 Castano Solanera
2010 Domaine la Garrigue Vacqueyras

Unlike the real Masters, you get to choose the winner of this prestigious event. All the wines will be on the machines at all three stores and we will have voting ballots for each taster. You choose your favorite and if your favorite wins, you will get 15% off case purchases for the entire month of April!*

It should be pretty fun stuff. So, while you are out this weekend swing on by, taste some amazing wine, and we'll contact you when you win!

*Excludes all items marked "net"

Taste The Best $24 Wine We Have Had This Year!

2010 Whitehall Lane Tre Leoni


Winestore Price: $23.99 (net)

Every now and again, there is a wine that stops us dead in our tracks. Sometimes the wine is $50. Sometimes the wine is $10. Today it is $24.

The 2010 Whitehall Lane Tre Leoni is, without a doubt, the best $25 wine we have had this year. Might be the best in a couple of years. If it's not, it is darn close. 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!

While this won't be something we can offer year 'round, we brought in 140 cases for you to take home. Why? Because we like you.

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 by clicking HERE

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

Calling All California Wine Lovers!

The Wine That Made Silver Oak Famous
FREE Meyer Family Tasting
Saturday April 6th, 2013
2pm-4pm

Matt Meyer will be on hand at Southpark to sign bottles!



Featuring:
2003 Meyer Family "Bonny's Vineyard" Cabernet
2010 Meyer Family "Spitfire" Cabernet
2009 Meyer Family "Highground" Syrah
2009 Meyer Family Syrah
2012 Meyer Family Rose
NV Meyer Family Port

Buy any bottle of Meyer Family wines and be entered to win a Magnum of 2005 Bonny's Vineyard Cabernet!

What's the big complaint about Robert Parker? Lots of people are probably motivated by little more than jealousy, but many believe that there is something inherently wrong with one man having so much power in the marketplace. Query many of those folks a bit more and you find that they wouldn't mind owning that sort of power; they just don't like what Parker does with his power. So they aren't being honest: it's not that one man shouldn't have power, it's that THIS man shouldn't have that much power.
 

Sounds like sour grapes to me. Parker's affection for big, unctuous red wines is legendary and despite the fact that he tastes tens of thousands of wines each year, he knows exactly what he's looking for and if he likes something, it's undeniably cut from that loud and powerful cloth.
 

Not everybody wants wines of such intensity; but Parker's success is proof that plenty do and if they are looking for one of the famous names among these powerhouses, they could do worse than purchase Meyer Family Bonny's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon.
 

The eponymous Meyer family includes Bonny Meyer, for whom the Bonny's Vineyard is named. Bonny's Vineyard was, as you probably know,  the most sought-after wine in the Silver Oak stable. Bonny's late husband Justin Meyer had named the vineyard for her, and it was the jewel in the crown that Justin Meyer crafted at Silver Oak. In 1991, he stopped making a single vineyard wine, insisting that silver Oak's worldwide popularity made it too troublesome to continue to make a 400 case production wine, with every customer assuming that they could buy access to that limited production wine.
 

Justin's son Matt, who will be joining us Saturday, finally talked the family into returning to a Bonny's Vineyard Cabernet in 2001; Justin Meyer passed away suddenly in 2003 and never saw the release of the wine. The 2003 is the inaugural release of that wine, and along with that we will be sampling their Spitfire Cabernet, Highground Syrah, Syrah, Rose and Port. So if you remember the Silver Oak Bonny's of old, swing by on Saturday to go back in time. If you never tasted those wines, but are interested in the style of wines that built Silver Oak into the powerhouse it is today, we hope to see you too!

Happy Tasting and we'll see you on Saturday,

Doug Frost, MS MW
Master Sommelier & Master of Wine

Another 2010 Rhone Winner For $9.99

2010 Les Vignerons "Prestige" CDR


Release Price: $13.99
Winestore Price: $9.99
SAVE 29%

Save an additional 5% on mixed 6-11 bottles and 10% on mixed cases

There are very few of the super hyped 2010 Rhone wines left in the marketplace. It's just the way the wine business works. Customers go into a feeding frenzy when the consensus comes back that a vintage is "epic" and the wine goes flying away. The delicious, but less heralded 2011s will start to arrive soon, but we got lucky and stumbled upon this little gem as it was just hanging out at the winery, asking to be brought over to the US.

St. Hilaire has pretty much mastered the inexpensive daily drinker and the 2010 Les Vignerons "Prestige" Cotes du Rhone is a primo example of their fine work. You probably have not ever heard of it. People don't use words like "epic" to describe it. That said, it tastes great, is inexpensive, and is going to go great with my BBQ sandwich and potato salad tonight.

We have it on the machine at all three stores to taste just in case you don't believe us - but this may be your new house wine.

To order you can:

Order ONLINE by clicking HERE
(You can choose to pickup at any of our 3 locations)

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662