If you're preference is for a pre-packaged holiday gift set, click here for an earlier blog post with a fairly comprehensive list. For single bottles or cases, please check with our staff. We can even help with themed concepts. Your blogger assisted someone who was shopping for wine that had a tree on the label. He was in the landscaping business, so the tree label was his theme for the year. And we had plenty of choices, starting with Dreaming Tree, Tilia and Wishing Tree.
But we're about more than just shopping, so let's really start this post by covering...
Lawrenceville Events
We have our regular wine tastings this weekend, from 4-6pm today and 2-4pm tomorrow. Click here for the tasting menu. On Saturday, from 4-6pm, we have a free tasting of Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch. And on Sunday, we have a free tasting of Hendricks Gin, from 2-4pm.
Brand new to our Events calendar is the Tim Smith Climax Moonshine Tasting and Bottle Signing, on January 31. Click here for more information.
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Woodbridge Events
On Saturday, we have the Johnnie Walker Blue Label engraving. Click here for details.
Woodbridge will also welcome Tim Smith for a tasting and bottle signing for his Climax Moonshine on January 31. Click here for the detailed information.
Follow us on Twitter at @jcwoodbridge, and remember to check our Events page regularly.
We're in the final week of our Holiday Toy Drive. Simply bring a new, unwrapped toy to either store. We're working with other businesses locally to help brighten the holiday season for some less fortunate children. The deadline is next Friday, December 19.
New Products
Veuve Clicquot Brut starts with 50-55% Pinot Noir, for structure, 15-20% Pinot Meunier, to round out the blend, and 28-33% Chardonnay, for elegance and sophistication. So what makes this bottle different? This 1.5 Liter magnum bottle has a label that light up. We know you already love Veuve, and this limited-edition Luminous will help make the holidays even more fun.
Ripped from the Headlines
From the Wine Spectator: "A Champagne kerfuffle has arisen in Britain's Parliament. During budget negotiations meant to impose some belt-tightening measures, the House of Lords refused to merge their catering services with their lowly counterparts in the House of Commons because 'the Lords feared that the quality of Champagne would not be as good if they chose a joint service,' said Sir Malcolm Jack to a parliamentary committee in the Commons (Jack served as clerk of the Commons, in charge of such affairs, from 2006 to 2011). The chairman of the committee, understandably, asked, 'Did you make that up? Is that true?' Jack confirmed that it was, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mirror. Then, because the members were having a laugh, another asked if the Lords' concerns about Champagne quality were, in fact, valid. 'I don't think they were,' responded Jack. 'We were very careful in our selection.' For good measure, another MP went ahead and just said how he really felt: 'The Lords are a bunch of unelected, out-of-touch toffs and money grabbers. It is time they were put out of their misery. Let them drink corporation pop.' The Lords bought 17,000 bottles of Champagne since 2010 at a cost of $417,000. The Mirror reported last year that taxpayers were spending $94,000 a week so peers could dine at subsidized prices: 'trompette mushroom risotto with truffles, Champagne and double cream' for 13 bucks, as one example. A Lords spokesman rebutted that 'the House of Lords would not reject a merger of catering services with the House of Commons simply on the supply of Champagne.' "
Have a great weekend!
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