Oregon Wine Tasting- May 10th

April 24th, 2024

Oregon Wine Presentation Special Guest Mollie Battenhouse, Master of Wine Friday, May 10th, 6:30-8:30 Limited Seating- Purchase advance tickets by calling 1-800-446-9463 $20 Per Person We welcome the opportunity for Mollie Battenhouse, MW, to present a thorough overview of the Oregon Wine Region through the eyes of the wineries listed below! Mollie graduated at the…

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No Wine Before Its Time

April 23rd, 2024

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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Wine of the Week- Mitravelas Nemea Rose 2021

April 23rd, 2024

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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Nunya Business, It’s Theirs

April 16th, 2024

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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Seated Tasted- Sake – May 2nd

April 16th, 2024

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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Wine of the Week- Hubert Meyer Pinot Blanc 2021

April 9th, 2024

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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Aging Like a Fine Wine

April 2nd, 2024

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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Wine of the Week- Chateau des Trois Tours

March 28th, 2024

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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