In-Store Events
To help your weekend planning and wine purchases, there will be wine tastings at both stores on Friday and Saturday.
In Lawrenceville, the wine tasting hours are 4-6pm today, and 2-4pm tomorrow. Click here for the tasting menu. You can save even more money on your purchase of any of the tasting menu wines by using our weekly coupons. Click here for our coupons, which are refreshed weekly and are valid at both stores.
We're two weeks out from the Goose Island Small Plates Dinner. Five courses will be expertly paired with five different Goose Island brews. This in-store event will be Saturday, January 30. Please call 609-520-0008 for information or to register.
In Woodbridge, the wine tasting hours are 4-6pm today, and 1-3pm tomorrow. Click here for the tasting menu. In time for the holidays in 2015, the Woodbridge tasting menu always included at least one outrageously good wine, and that's continuing. This week, the superstar wine is the 2011 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf du Pape. On the nose, the wine is very delicate and powerful at the same time, red fruit, black currants, blackberries, spices, thyme and lavender. The bouquet is very elegant, rich and round. Figs, cherries, black currants and stewed fruit, all with a great acidity. The tannins are present but very delicate. The scores: WA:94, WS:94, WE:94, IWC 91-93. So while we carry a (seemingly) countless number of outstanding wines that are under $20, this gives you the opportunity to expand your palate. Your blogger has a preference for wines from Châteauneuf du Pape, so we may have to stop in for a taste as well.
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Produced from organically grown, dry-farmed vineyards. Silky and sweet on the palate, offering intense but edge-free raspberry and spicecake flavors. A wine of noteworthy elegance, especially for the money. Finishes sappy, floral and long, with lingering red fruit character and just a hint of tannins. This vibrant, emphatically fruity, 100% pure Tempranillo was raised in a combination of large concrete and stainless steel tanks.
This wine pairs well with white meats like pork and chicken and flaky fish like hake, cod or flounder. This has the fruit and acidity to match with red meats, as well.
Earlier, we noted how we carry huge numbers of outstanding wines that are under $20. This wine rated 90 points from VM, and is available for only $6.96 in the Bottle Club®. This one won't last long.
The wine scored 91 points from Wine Spectator. "An unctuous, powerful red, with notes of bacon to the ripe dark plum, blackberry and cherry tart flavors. Shows plenty of grip as well, with muscular tannins. The rich, juicy finish is loaded with Asian spice and mocha nuances. Drink now through 2020." Only $17.99 in the Bottle Club®.
We're bringing in several different extensions of the Glenfarclas Whisky line. Glenfarclas is renowned for producing Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky in the traditional Speyside style, with a heavy Sherry influence. These are all available in extremely limited quantities-as little as one bottle per store. It's best to call to inquire about a purchasing opportunity, as the stock might be depleted by the time you've read this.
Color: Rich dark mysterious Gold. Nose: Antique leather, walnuts and chocolate covered raisins. Flavor: A sweet initial taste, orange segments, chocolate. Then a lovely flavor of burnt brown sugar. Finish: The dry finish oozes big tannins and more rich dark cocoa beans. Let the whisky breathe a little or add a drop or two of water to fully open up the dram. Comment: This new Glenfarclas 40 Years Old, bottled in March 2010, has been awarded a score of 95/100 by the Malt Advocate magazine.
$529.99 in the Bottle Club®.
Ripped from the Headlines
Romanée-Conti Caper Leads Officials to Dockworker
There's been a break in the case of the DRC (one of the most prized wines in the world) that walked off the dock. On Oct. 14, 2015, a shipment of Burgundy destined for Canada from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti passed customs in Le Havre in northern France. But when the Liquor Control Board of Ontario received the shipment, the container was short 31 cases of the 2012 vintage, worth more than $50,000 wholesale.
“It’s the first time we’ve had a theft from a container like that,” Aubert de Villaine, co-owner of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, told public radio station France Bleu. Investigators were stumped until early December when a wine collector saw two magnums of DRC on sale for $52,000 on Le Bon Coin (a French website that serves as a cross between eBay and Craig's List) and alerted DRC. Sadly, it’s not an uncommon occurrence for stolen wine to appear for sale on Le Bon Coin, where the French flog everything from used camping gear to—ahem—stolen wine.
DRC notified the police in Dijon and Versailles, setting off an undercover sting operation that pulled in two fences. The fences revealed that they’d bought the two magnums of DRC from a Bordelais. Cops found four more bottles of DRC with the aforementioned Bordelais, who led them to his supplier, a 34-year-old Honfleur dockworker. At the dockworker's home, cops found a stash of expensive grands crus, but not the DRC. Despite his claims to being just a simple, devoted wine collector, he was arrested. What has become of the rest of those 31 cases of Canada-bound DRC remains a mystery.
Have a great weekend!
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