A lot of people who shop here are in the habit of collecting wine for near term, and long term consumption. One of those good people is Marc, who asked me some time back how to know when a wine is ready to drink. And since I recently wrote a column extolling the virtues of…
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Mitravelas 2021 Nemea Rosé Sale Price: $12.79 Regular Price: $15.99 I believe that it was 2015 that I had the good fortune to visit Greece, and while I was there our travels took us through southern Greece to Nemea in the Peloponnese. The views were mountainous and varied, at times reminding me of the American…
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Back in roughly 2012 when I was a dozen years younger and two dozen pounds lighter I had decided it would be fruitful to take a series of courses at the Philly Wine School. This was back in the days when they were up on Fairmount Ave and I was parking by the Eastern State…
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Vine Connections Saké Tasting Featuring Monica Samuels 6:30 to 8:30pm – Thursday, May 2nd $15 / Person – Limited Seating Available Call to Reserve (800) 446-9463 It’s that time of year again, the daffodils have bloomed, the tulips are right around the corner, and the fresh round of unpasteurized saké has arrived. Join us on…
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Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Featuring Constantin Richter 6:30 to 8:30pm – Tuesday, April 30th $15 / Person – Limited Seating Available Sold out Call to Reserve (800) 446-9463 Keen eyed observers may notice that this tasting is on a Tuesday, a night that we don’t typically have wine tastings. However when I was…
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I’ll tell you something, it’s been a heck of a weekend, and a heck of a Monday, and coming up with a new article every week can be tough. So this week we’ll be revisiting an essay from the Annals of Wine Writing on a topic covered almost a year ago to the day that’s…
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Hubert Meyer 2021 Pinot Blanc Sale Price: $9.99 Regular Price: $14.99 Like all good European wine growing families, the Meyer family has been in the trade since the 1600s. The winery’s namesake, Hubert, took over the estate from his father André in 1976. In 2011 Hubert’s son Pierre took over allowing his father to spend…
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About ten or so years ago, maybe 2012-ish, man of mystery and friend of the store Frank opened a bottle of wine with some of us back at the bar on a quiet weekend evening. This wine was a humble Cotes-du-Rhone Rouge by Domaine Charvin, in fact it might have even carried an even less…
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Château des Trois Tours Regular Price: $11.99 Château des Trois Tours is a castle located in the Entre-Deux-Mers southeast of the city of Bordeaux owned by the Lumeau family, now in their 8th generation of being in the wine business. Entre-Deux-Mers is not known for being home to the great first growths of Bordeaux, however…
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Ferraton Pere & Fils 2019 Crozes-Hermitage Sale Price $19.99 (Reg. Price $27.99) Albert Bichot 2019 Macon-Lugny Les Charmes Sale Price $17.99 (Reg. Price $27.99) La Chablisienne 2019 La Pierrelée Chablis Sale Price $14.99 (Reg. Price $29.99) Some of the wholesalers that we work with wanted to make some room in their warehouse, so I was…
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