Your Weekly Grab Bag

It's Friday, and that means it's time for our weekly round-up of events, news and new products that we call the Grab Bag. Since it's also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which leads to two very busy months in the stores, this will be a pretty full report.

Events

Lawrenceville kicks off its weekend with the regular weekly wine tastings, 4-6pm today and 2-4pm tomorrow. Click here to see the tasting menu. At 5pm today, we also have the Sierra Nevada Beer Camp tapping, featuring Yonder Bock Tropical Maibock and Torpedo Pilsner. Click here to read more about the Beer Camp tappings, which are 5pm every Friday in October.

The big event of the weekend, of course, in Ladies Night Out, happening after hours on Sunday, October 19. Admission is free, with your advance RSVP. Click here to see the full agenda for Ladies Night Out in Lawrenceville. Ladies Night Out will benefit the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

Wine tasting at a previous Ladies Night Out

Looking ahead just about 10 days, we're hosting an in-store Beer Dinner on October 29, featuring Weyerbacher. We'll have the complete details available early next week.

Woodbridge doesn't have Ladies Night Out until October 26, but it's still a very busy weekend. Today's wine tasting is 4-6pm, and it's a Staff Picks menu. Click here for that menu. At 6pm, we also have the Sierra Nevada Beer Camp tapping, featuring Yonder Bock Tropical Maibock. Click here to read about the Beer Camp tappings at Woodbridge.

Saturday's wine tasting will feature selections from Barton & Guestier. With almost three centuries of experience in the wine business, Barton & Guestier is the 1st French brand name, with a range that represents  the wonderful diversity of French wines from the main winegrowing regions: Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Rhône Valley, Languedoc, Gascony and Corsica. The tasting will run at our regular time, 1-3pm.

Later in the day, we're offering a tasting of Deep Eddy Vodka. That runs from 5-7pm.

As we noted, Ladies Night Out in Woodbridge is October 26. Admission is free, with your advance RSVP, and the evening will benefit Susan G. Komen. Click here for the full schedule of Ladies Night Out.

The crew at Dominic's

There are a couple of other events worth noting at Woodbridge. On October 29, we're hosting a wine dinner at Dominic's Italian Restaurant in Avenel. You'll enjoy four great courses perfectly paired with four different wines. Click here for information.

On November 14, we're hosting an in-store beer dinner with Kane Brewing. Details will be posted shortly.

New Products

Errazuriz Wild Ferment Chardonnay. Over the last five years, Errazuriz’ Chardonnay Wild Ferment has become recognized as perhaps the top Chardonnay from South America. James Suckling scored this vintage at 95 points, writing, "This a phenomenal white with sliced apple, papaya, and chalk with hints of slate. Turns to limes. Full body, with bright acidity and a racy acidity that goes on for minutes with the fruit. Dry austerity at the end gives it incredible character. This was fermented and aged in second and third year oak. Ten months. A triumph. A reductive structured style. Screw cap. Drink now."

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Have a great weekend!