🎉 The Belle Glos Blind Tasting Winner is....

03.24.2025

2023 Willowlake Pinot Noir

Release Price: $40.00
SALE Price: $19.99 (net)
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SALE runs Tuesday March 25th - Sunday March 30th, 2025

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Order of Finish:
1st Place: Willowlake Pinot Noir
2nd Place: Belle Glos Clark & Telephone (Special In store Victory Price!)
3rd Place: P/N Pinot Noir (On Sale for $12.99!)

SEE VOTING RESULTS: HERE

The new vintage of Willowlake Pinot Noir has been enjoying some success as of late, and it's performance this weekend will certainly send things into overdrive.

This is now the FOURTH time this wine has won the Belle Glos Blind Tasting 👀 - and nobody else is even close in that regard.

So to celebrate we're offering special pricing not only on the winner, but all of the top 3 wines. It's kinda like the Olympics over here, right?

What makes this wine so amazing?

Wine wizards Baron Ziegler (he knows what he is doing) and Rob Fischer have been crafting this Pinot Noir since 2014 (when Vivino labeled it in the top 5% of all wines in the world) and it has become harder and harder to get each and every year.

Case in point - in 2023 it was out of stock from April through September and last year we were unable to buy any from May until October!!

Heck, Vivino even says the 2019 vintage is one of the top 9% of all wines in the world. Nice!



Since its launch it has been our #1 selling Pinot Noir in terms of gross dollar volume and it is now a FOUR time "Belle Glos Blind Tasting" winner (also it has never come in worse than second).

So just to recap:
1) 100% Bennett Valley Pinot for $19.99 (that never happens)
2) One of top wines in the world according to Vivino
3) 4 time Belle Glos Blind Tasting winner - and newly crowned 2025 Champion

I highly recommend pairing with watching White Lotus  - anyone else watching this show?!?! Parker Posey is unreal!

Let's do this!

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Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479

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🍷Blind Taste Belle Glos Pinot Noir against $15-$20 Rivals!

03.20.2025

Blind Taste 2023 Belle Glos "Clark & Telephone"

Saturday March 22nd, 2025
9am - 8pm
All Day Long!

For the first time since March of 2023, the Belle Glos Clark & Telephone blind tasting has returned due to overwhelming demand (who doesn't love blind tastings?!?!?)

Like we have said many times before, if you don't know the price, can't see the label, and can't hear someone barking in your ear about the wine's "score," then all that is left is the juice and your taste buds. It's a scary proposition for any winemaker. That's why you have marketing departments that design catchy labels, create campaigns to build a wine's image, and spend all of their time and energy essentially trying to convince consumers that a wine is great. The problem is that you can't out "market" a blind tasting.

🏀 Let the mayhem begin...Benières for $9.99!

03.19.2025

Is It The Best Value Wine of All Time?

2023 Benières Pinot Noir
Release Price: $20.00
SALE Price: $9.99 (net)
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2023 Benières Chardonnay
Release Price: $20.00
SALE Price: $9.99 (net)
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SALE Price good through Sunday March 23rd, 2025

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Should we kick of the start to March Madness with a little "Madness" of our own?

I think so...

The biggest sale we run every spring is Benières for $9.99, and the day has finally arrived.

Benières Pinot Noir, which you all have gobbled up to the tune of more than 238,000 bottles (that is a lot of wine) in the last 48 months, is a staple in my house and now - more than ever - the type of value it is delivering is a very welcome thing for me.



We told you back in December that for the 5th year in a row Benières Pinot Noir and Chardonnay didn't win the voting here for our Wine of the Year, but maybe they should have. That we were not sure there is any brand we carry more on fire than Benieres - and that there is no brand bringing more thunder when it comes to the quality / price ratio than these wines right now.

The guy who wrote the review above about the Benières Pinot Noir clearly agrees 😂 My guess is he is buying a case at this price.

As always, thank you for your support. We work hard every single day to bring you the best possible customer service, the greatest quality wines, and the guaranteed lowest prices...and it is because of you that we are able to make that happen.

You guys know the drill!

Let's do this! Happy Tuesday!
 

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Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479

Call MORRISVILLE @ 919-694-5028

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🟣 The Best Bordeaux You Will EVER Try for $24.99?

03.07.2025

2022 Chateau Carteau Saint-Emilion

Release Price: $50.00 (Click HERE to see) 
SALE Price: $24.99 (net)
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SALE runs Friday March 7th - Sunday March 9th, 2025

SALE Items this Week:
Shock Winner of the Caymus Blind Tasting is BACK...at $9.99
Some $9.99 rosé to ease our way into Spring...
Back in stock for first time since May!

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Today!

First off, TGIF...am I right?

Second, I can tell you without one ounce of hesitation in my body that this will be the greatest bottle of Bordeaux you are ever going to try for $25.00...and it is one that can even last 40 years.

People tell you all the time that only the most expensive wines can go that distance...and those people are wrong.

I will challenge anyone reading this to find better quality Bordeaux for less than $75 per bottle. I’d even put this wine up against Bordeaux I’ve tasted in the $150-$250 per bottle range. No joke.
 
Saint-Émilion is the oldest area of Bordeaux and its Roman ruins are a frequent reminder. Still, when the region was getting codified, Saint-Émilion was left out – it was sleepy and nearly forgotten. That changed in the 1990s when the garagiste movement of tiny Saint-Émilion wineries started making stunning, trend-setting wines. So the “Old” Jacques Bertrand Estate of Chateau Carteau is both Old School and modern all at the same time.
 
Chateau Carteau is a very typical Saint-Émilion blend of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon and it sees a bit more new oak than is typical at this price point. Half new and half one-year-old barrels generate more spice and weight in the mouth and, in a vintage like 2022, that is just right. 

Buy "Hey" you ask, "How do you know it will last 40 years?"

Well, a customer sent us the below pic of a bottle they just drank not too long ago, and they said it was divine!

I honestly can't think of any one wine right now at $25 or less that can go that distance.

Also, just to celebrate all things awesome like wines like this, we'll have it on the tasting machine at all 9 stores through Sunday for only $0.01. Because we love you, and that's how we roll.

So let's get to it on this awesome Friday. One thing I know for certain today, is I am opening a bottle of this tonight 🤣...

TGIF! Three days only!!




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😍 Shock Winner of the Caymus Blind Tasting...is back at $9.99!

03.04.2025

2022 Highland Falls Proprietary Red

Release Price: $20.00 
SALE Price: $9.99 (net)
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SALE ends Sunday March 9th, 2025

I can think of no wine that took off like a rocket ship more than when Highland Falls won the Caymus Blind Tasting back in October...and we've now worked with the winery to kick off March the right way, with the wine back on sale for $9.99.

I did not have Highland Falls winning that tasting on my bingo card, but that is why blind tastings are so much fun - anything can happen.

It doesn't hurt that the new vintage from this long time favorite is absolutely lights out - which has helped propel it to become the most affordable winner of this tasting...ever!

I get it why people love it so much and why it did so well...and it has some pedigree. 

It was our 2020 Wine of the Year. It sold more bottles than any other wine in 2021, and the momentum seems to only be picking up speed...sales are up 78% YTD so far in 2025!! 👀

It also holds the store record for most bottles ever sold over a 5 day period...so there's that...

The list goes on and on.

On sale for $9.99 it is at the top of any value list for me.

What's up with the wine?

"Mountain-grown, it’s the richest kind,” as coffee commercials used to say, but it’s also true of Cabernet. You rarely, if ever, can find mountain fruit in $12 wines. Like, I can't even think of one off the top of my head.

Foley Family's winemaking pedigree being involved doesn’t hurt either: the guys who bring you Merus, Chalone, Sebastiani and Chalk Hill Wines are behind the powerhouse Highland Falls lineup too.

It's kinda like if the people behind Dom Perignon launched a $12 sparkler - or the winemaking team behind Rombauer rolled out a $12 Cali Chardonnay.....these are the best of the best in the Cabernet world, bringing you world class value.

On SALE through Sunday!

Let's do this!


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😎 One of the hottest $9.99 Chardonnay's in the US?

02.26.2025

2023 Belleplane Chardonnay

Avg Vivino Price: $24.00 (Here)
SALE Price: $9.99 (net)
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There may be no hotter $9.99 Chardonnay in the US other than Belleplane.

The winery reported to us that sales were up 58% in the US market in 2024 - which by all accounts is absolutely bonkers.

That said, I get the hype.

In France, the grape is sometimes secondary; it’s the place that counts, at least when it comes to the labels. So it took years before the French would even let someone drop the name of the grape on the label; well, except for in Alsace, but that's a whole other story. The French label police have loosened up a bit and, particularly with wines from the vast Languedoc-Roussillon region in the south, they’re okay with Chardonnay, as with this bottle, being on the label.

Vast as the region is, it matters if you’re close to the coast, or up in the mountains, and with a grape like Chardonnay, cooler, higher elevation sites are best and that is exactly where this comes from. About a third of the wine is barrel-fermented; the rest is in stainless steel, with just enough lees-stirring to fatten up the wine and round it out.

It's everything I love about the wine business - while there are plenty of producers out there trying to squeeze every last cent they can out of their customers, there are then wineries like Belleplane. Where the goal is to create the absolute most luxurious product possible for the least amount possible. These are my kind of people!

We'll have this gem on the tasting machine at all 9 stores for just $0.01 through Sunday, in case you want to see for yourself what all the hype is about.

70 degrees and sunny today!

Anyone fancy a glass of Chardonnay on the back patio?!?!?!?!

To order you can:

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Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479

Call MORRISVILLE @ 919-694-5028

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

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🍷 Y'all ready for this...???

02.22.2025

2023 Gil Family Minairo Priorat

Vivino Avg. Price: $26.54 (HERE)
winestore. Price: $19.99 (net)
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That subject line immediately sent me to back to this song. There was not a sporting event back in the day that was not blasting this, am I right?

Anyhoo...the question still stands, are y'all ready for this?

Today we have:
1) One of the top winemakers in the world (Silvia Puig)
2) Partners with one of the top wineries in the world (Gil Family Estates)
3) To create a sub $20 wine from Priorat that is going to rock your world!

Hyperbole? I think not. Wait till you try it.

The fame of Priorat is both recent and ancient; the beautiful Escaladei (Steps of God) mountain formation frames the monastery of Santa Maria of Escaladei; it was founded in the 12th century by Alfonso the Chaste (poor guy 😂). And over the last few decades, the slate and quartz soils called llicorella generate super low yields and super concentrated wines. Grenache and Carignan dominate this blend, and it sees six months in French oak barrels.

All of this creates a wine that is powerful but still framed by useful acidity (that stuff that keeps you coming back to the glass over and over again).

We'll have it on the tasting machines at all 9 stores this weekend for $0.01, in case you want to test it out first...but I'm just gonna tell you this...tonight at my house we are opening this up and making the traditional Spanish meal of Cheeseburgers and onion rings to go with it. I can't wait.

Let's do this!!


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🔴 Taste Prisoner BLIND vs $20 Rivals...

02.14.2025

Taste Prisoner BLIND vs. $20 Rivals

Saturday February 15th, 2025
9am - 8pm
All Day Long!!



Ask, and you shall receive...

After the success of our 16th Annual Silver Oak Blind Tasting, you guys have been clamoring for another blind tasting. Well, we are in the business of giving the people what they want...

...so for just the 2nd time EVER, it is time for The Prisoner Blind Tasting!

"The Prisoner" Red Blend appears to be universally loved. It actually helped spawn an entire movement of "BIG" red wine blends (and kinda gave Zinfandel a re-birth of popularity if you will), and still sits atop its perch as King of the Gigantic Red Wine Kingdom :)

Which is why we're playing "Find The Prisoner" this Saturday. It's simple really. The wines will all be tasted blind on our tasting machines. One of them will be The Prisoner and the others will be an assortment of wines at every price point, from a number of different regions. All you have to do is load up your card with $8.00, taste all eight wines (you don't have to taste all 8 if you don't want to, but it's more fun if you do!), and pick your favorite. Yes, that's right, your favorite. If that's The Prisoner, then great, if not, well that's OK too. You may be surprised as to what your favorites actually are.

These events are always fun, and honestly with the results that have come out of the last two blind tastings we have hosted, I CANNOT wait to see what happens!!

See you all Saturday!

🍷 Total Wine is $18.99 - You Pay $15.99 - Let's Do This!

02.04.2025

2022 Daou Pessimist

Wine.com Price: $24.99 (HERE)
Total Wine Price: $18.99 (HERE)*
winestore. Price: $15.99 (net)
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Right now I'm not sure there is an item we have a tougher time keeping in stock due to its insane popularity other than Daou Pessimist.

Oh, did we also mention we have it for you at the lowest price in the US and 15% less than Total Wine?! You guys know, that is how we roll!!

What's up with the wine?

If there was ever a wine that's been on cruise control since it was released, this would be that wine. Daou Vineyards launched The Pessimist back in 2016 (which lets be honest that feels like yesterday), and while I don't know how much they sell globally, I know people are obsessed with this wine. My business partner tasted it and the first thing out of his mouth was "This is what The Prisoner used to taste like when it went huge".

Pessimist is a blend of Syrah, Zinfandel, Petite Sirah and a splash of Lagrein. All those grapes together remind me of the feeling I had when I first saw someone make a Miami Vice at the Tiki Bar at the beach. Pure Heaven. You know what I'm talking about (If not please order a Miami Vice on your next beach vacation and thank me later).

I know what I'm drinking tonight!

Let's do this!

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*Total Wine Price taken at 8:58am on Tuesday Feb 4th from their Charlotte (Promenade) location

🍷 Lowest US Price Ever Offered on this Pinot Noir! 🤯

01.31.2025

2022 Patricia Green Chehalem Mountain

Winery Price: $37.00 (HERE)
winestore. Price: $24.99 (net)
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Anyone interested in an absolutely insane deal to start the weekend, end dry January, and also exit maybe the longest and coldest month of the year?

Yes? I thought so...

To just start things off - I have never seen a Patricia Green Single Vineyard Pinot Noir bottling at this price. Not ever.

Heck, Total Wine is selling the basic estate Pinot Noir bottling from Patricia Green for $37.99 (here) - a nearly 52% increase over this single vineyard bottling we have here.  

Patricia Green was a legend in Oregon. Maybe not that many people knew about her outside Oregon, but within the community of Pinot Noir winemakers, Patty was someone you listened to because she knew so much. While she did some great stuff putting Torii Mor on the map, when she opened her own place in 2000, she was free to make even more amazing wines. Okay, there’s a lot of wonderful Pinot in Oregon, but Patty Green rises far above the field.

Patty Green left us too soon in 2017, but her legacy as one of the most gifted winemakers in the world of Oregon Pinot Noir lives on through her business partner Jim Anderson.

I’ve never had a bad Pinot from Patricia Green, but their Chehalem Vineyard bottling is something special entirely. You can read more about the vineyard here, but let’s just say these people know what they are doing, and they do it better than almost anyone else in Oregon.

Extremely limited supply at this price - but let's get while the gettin' is good!

I know what I'm drinking tonight!

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🍷 Our #9 Selling Wine of 2024 is $7.99...👀

01.28.2025

2023 Giuliano Rosati Pinot Grigio

Release Price: $12.00
winestore. Price: $7.99 (net)
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It's supposed to be 60 degrees this week, so mentally I'm going to springtime...and I'm not coming back to winter. I just want that to be known...😁

Anyhooo.....

How does a wine become our #9 best selling wine in 2024 and we have only ever sent out two newsletters about it? How does it do this if we've never even one time featured it in a sale?

By delivering the goods in a big way...that's how.

Oh, and we were not even the ones that uncovered this gem.
 
You guys know we do special orders all the time for wines we don't have in stock, and a long time customer e-mailed us a photo of this bottle that they loved at a restaurant (and paid $12 a glass) and wondered if we were able to get it for them.
 
Well - we were able to get it for them, and we also tasted a sample of it ....and folks, for $7.99 per bottle this stuff is downright outrageous.
 
What's the story here?
 
Dan Bada & Charlie Trivinia, whose mothers emigrated to the U.S. together from Le Marche, Italy, lived in the same house for some time. The two were childhood friends and in adulthood they decided to launch a wine import business. They work with winemakers Giuseppe and Luigi Anselmi in the Veneto to create this wine from the Anselmi’s 600-acre estate near the sea. This is traditional Pinot Grigio: stainless steel, fresh and tangy.
 
Am I drinking this tonight? You know it!

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❤️ If you try one white wine this year...make it this one!

01.24.2025

2023 Domaine de Terrebrune "Selection de Chenin"

Release Price: $20.00
SALE Price: $12.99 (net)
SAVE 35%



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SALE runs Friday January 24th - Sunday January 26th 2025

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So once a year we go to the world's largest wine trade show to try and find new wines to bring into the United States, and every year there is one wine that is just an absolute show stopper.

Last year, we took this photo of a wine that floored us on quality (and we were kinda scared to ask the price)...

I wrote down "Absolute grand slam if below $25...maybe best wine we have tasted" in my notes on the picture.

Once we found out we could bring it to you for less than $15 per bottle? We bought everything they had left - 60% of the entire production of the wine 👀. 

To celebrate its launch in the US, we're putting it on sale this weekend for $12.99 per bottle - which is basically the same price you would pay for this wine locally in France! Let's gooooooooo!

We'll also have it on the tasting machine all weekend for just $0.01 to try - just to see if it rocks your world as much as it did ours.

So what shook us so hard on this particular wine?

Well...here's the thing...there are few certainties in wine; it may seem like certain grapes belong only in certain places and nowhere else but history and experimentation has shown otherwise. Opportunities can be vast. Some grapes do okay in lots of places other than their homes but truly shine in only one or two (I’m looking at you, Nebbiolo); chief amongst them would be Chenin Blanc. Aside from South Africa, only in the Loire Valley is the grape completely special. But even here, somebody might feel the need to gild the lily; Terrebrune pulls that off by adding 20% Chardonnay to its Chenin but the citric, honeyed intensity remains.

One of the things I love about the wine business is finding new products like this. Wines that are coveted in their home market, but have never made their way over here due to lack of supply and opportunity.

If you're like me and you always feel like any time you go on vacation the wine always tastes better...I feel like this is the stuff they are serving. Insane quality, a family run operation that prices for people to be able to drink and enjoy daily, and a great story.

I know what I'm drinking tonight!

Let's do this!

To order you can:

Order ONLINE for IN STORE or CURBSIDE PICKUP / SHIPPING



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Call ahead for IN STORE / CURBSIDE PICKUP:

Call DUNWOODY @ 470-709-2289

Call ASHEVILLE @ 828-417-7305

Call RALEIGH @ 919-747-9077

Call CHAPEL HILL @ 984-234-0446

Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479

Call MORRISVILLE @ 919-694-5028

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

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95 points and $9.99...??? 👀

01.21.2025

2021 Chateau Courac Cotes du Rhone

Release Price: $20.00 (Click HERE to see)
SALE Price: $9.99 (net)
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Lowest Online Price in the US!

SALE runs Tuesday January 21st - Sunday January 26th, 2025

Reminder we open at 9am Thursday - Saturday

Anytime a wine we love scores 95 points in the Decanter World Wine Awards and has a tasting note like the one below, we get extremely excited...



- Exceptional value?
- Very Classy?!
- Ticks all the boxes?!?

AND we can run it on sale for the lowest price in the US at $9.99 per bottle?!?! 

I mean it kinda makes me chuckle as I was reading the latest issue of Wine Spectator just yesterday and they were discussing the best value wines in the world...and all the "value" wines were like $30 and $40 per bottle.

Ummmmm....no.

Value is surely relative, but value is $9.99 - not $39.99.

What makes this wine in particular such a great value?

We might presume that most of the top Old World sites are multi-generational legacies, remaining in the hands of ossified aristocrats served by dedicated minions. I suppose that’s true in some places. But most of the exciting things happen in Europe are the result of new blood; new folks like Joséphine and Frédéric Arnaud who took over this property in 1995. Northwest of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the Arnauds have more than 200 acres of Syrah, Grenache and Mourvèdre, the latter a grape that has only, in the last two or three decades, become more typical of Côtes du Rhone blends.

Again, it helps to add some new blood to these old places...especially ones that want to specialize in high quality wines that everyone can enjoy!

We will have the wine on the tasting machine all week for only $0.01 per taste - just so you can see what all the fuss is about!

I know what I'm drinking tonight!

To order you can:

Order ONLINE for IN STORE or CURBSIDE PICKUP / SHIPPING



E-mail us HERE

Call ahead for IN STORE / CURBSIDE PICKUP:

Call DUNWOODY @ 470-709-2289

Call ASHEVILLE @ 828-417-7305

Call RALEIGH @ 919-747-9077

Call CHAPEL HILL @ 984-234-0446

Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479

Call MORRISVILLE @ 919-694-5028

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

🍷 Something fun for the weekend...!!!

01.17.2025

2023 Maison Ventenac Batard Arvine

Release Price: $50.00 (Click HERE to see)
winestore. Price: $19.99 (net)
SAVE 60%



Lowest Online Price in the World!

SALE runs Friday January 17th - Sunday January 19th, 2025

Reminder we open at 9am Thursday - Saturday

Random note: One of the iconic lines in any TV show has to be when Dame Maggie Smith asked what a weekend was in Downton Abbey. You can view the hilarious scene here.

Anyhoo...I think the rest of us actually do know what a weekend is, and we look forward to them. I love opening up a nice bottle on a Friday night as a bit of a celebration of another week in the books, and a great way to wind down.

This weekend, we've got quite a treat.

I noted above that $19.99 per bottle for this wine is not only the lowest online price in the US...it is the lowest online price in the world. This weekend (every time I type this phrase now in my head I say "What is a weekend?!?!?), you'll be able to pick up this gem for less than you can buy if for locally in France.

GO time.

Soooooo...what is all the hype about?

On a recent buying trip we sat down with Olivier Ramé to taste the latest lineup at Maison Ventenac. During that meeting one of the wines we tasted stopped us in our tracks. It was a 100% Petite Arvine called Le Batard. It was also one of the best wines we tasted the entire trip.
 
Ventenac is an exceptional 100% organic property. Some of the wine produced here we believe represents some of the best under $50 wine you can buy - period.
 
Using the grape Petite Arvine is a new project, with the wine called a ‘bastard’ on the label because Petite Arvine is a Swiss grape that few grow in France. The wine is a complete dead ringer for high end white burgundy (and I’m talking the stuff north of $100+ per bottle). It is tense and minerally, fermented with native yeasts and no sulfur in Italian terracotta amphorae. It adds color, texture and complexity to this otherwise simple and refreshing grape.
 
My first thought after tasting it was thinking this must be what people feel like when they say stuff like “I remember when Montrachet was only $30…” and stuff like that.
 
The only real problem here? 2,400 bottles or 200 cases is the entire global annual production.
 
So if you're into White Burgundy (or any Chardonnay for that matter), or just into delicious white wine, your ship has come in.

$19.99 per bottle through Sunday. I'm all in!

To order you can:

Order ONLINE for IN STORE or CURBSIDE PICKUP / SHIPPING



E-mail us HERE

Call ahead for IN STORE / CURBSIDE PICKUP:

Call DUNWOODY @ 470-709-2289

Call ASHEVILLE @ 828-417-7305

Call RALEIGH @ 919-747-9077

Call CHAPEL HILL @ 984-234-0446

Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479

Call MORRISVILLE @ 919-694-5028

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

🍷 The $9.99 "Do Not Miss" Red Wine...

01.15.2025

2023 Granicus Proprietary Red

Release Price: $25.00
Vivino Avg Retail Price: $15.14 (HERE)*
SALE Price: $9.99 (net)
SAVE 60%



Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Thursday - Saturday

Our #1 goal here at winestore. is to bring you the best possible wines at the lowest possible prices. It's been our goal since our founding almost 19 years ago and it remains our #1 goal today.

So offers like the one we are rolling out today get our juices flowing!!

What's going on?

One of the breakout stars of 2024, to the tune of over 10,000 bottles, was Granicus Proprietary Red...and the winery has let us kick off 2025 with a bang.

$9.99 per bottle? Back up the truck...

It makes sense this wine would take off like a rocket ship - the producer is the same winery behind Benieres Chardonnay and Pinot Noir - our #4 and #6 best selling wines! (Did I also mention these guys do value wines better than maybe anyone on planet earth?)

So why are we loving it so much? Well, outside of the fact the people behind Granicus are basically a dream team producer of affordable yet outstanding quality wines, we like this wine because....we love wines from the Languedoc-Roussillon 😁.

It’s a place in Mediterranean France that has been important for more than a century but, despite the noise about inexpensive Bordeaux wines, remains the place to shop for value. Though it represents only 10% of France’s vineyard area, production is 42% of the country’s total output. It wasn’t always so, back in 1897, that same area represented only 25% of France’s wine. Most of that was given over to Grenache, Cinsault, Carignan and high-volume grapes. Now producers are trying to figure out the spots where Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and even Pinot Noir can prosper (good luck on that last one). But when you grow these grapes on chalky-clay terroirs, and when you apply Bordeaux techniques to it (fancy stainless steel, new French oak, minute temperature control and the like), you can make a fascinatingly accurate facsimile.

$9.99 per bottle through Sunday to help kick off 2025. Let's do this.

To the restaurant in the airport that tried to charge me $5 for a club soda the other day - please take note! 2025 is all about the return to off the charts value!! 

I know what I'm drinking tonight!


To order you can:

Order ONLINE for IN STORE or CURBSIDE PICKUP / SHIPPING



E-mail us HERE

Call ahead for IN STORE / CURBSIDE PICKUP:

Call DUNWOODY @ 470-709-2289

Call ASHEVILLE @ 828-417-7305

Call RALEIGH @ 919-747-9077

Call CHAPEL HILL @ 984-234-0446

Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479

Call MORRISVILLE @ 919-694-5028

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

👀 Sonoma Cutrer 45% off release price and 26% off Total Wine!

01.14.2025

2023 Sonoma Cutrer Russian River Chardonnay

Release Price: $31.00 (HERE)
Total Wine Price: $22.99 (HERE)*
winestore. Price: $16.99 (net)
SAVE 45%



Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Thursday - Saturday

Attention Chardonnay lovers...

Did you know we carry Sonoma Cutrer Russian River Ranches Chardonnay for only $16.99? (Did I mention that was 26% lower than Total Wine? 😁)

Over the years we had been including Sonoma Cutrer Russian River Ranches Chardonnay in some sale events at $16.99 per bottle and the wine was absolutely flying off the shelves. Then, four years ago we were like "why don't we just make it $16.99 every single day?"

So we went ahead and did that 😁 

We absolutely love low prices and we absolutely love you guys, so this only made sense...am I right?

Since then, this wine has been CRUSHING IT.

So save over 45% off the release price, and 26% off Total Wine, any day you want to...because that is just how we roll.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Let's do this!


To order you can:

Order ONLINE for IN STORE or CURBSIDE PICKUP / SHIPPING



E-mail us HERE

Call ahead for IN STORE / CURBSIDE PICKUP:

Call DUNWOODY @ 470-709-2289

Call ASHEVILLE @ 828-417-7305

Call RALEIGH @ 919-747-9077

Call CHAPEL HILL @ 984-234-0446

Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479

Call MORRISVILLE @ 919-694-5028

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

*Total Wine Price taken at 8:46am on Tuesday January 14th from their Charlotte, Myers Park Location

❄️ 3 Days Left! - Plus Snow to Wine Index Is Code Orange! ❄️

01.10.2025

You'll Need Some Wine...

3 DAYS LEFT FOR THE SILVER OAK BLIND WINNER!!

2022 Seigneur du Feu Cabernet Sauvignon
Release Price: $20.00
Vivino Avg Retail Price: $15.75 (HERE)
SALE Price: $9.99 (net)
SAVE 50%



SALE price runs through Sunday January 12th, 2024

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Order of Finish:
1st Place: Seigneur du Feu Cabernet Sauvignon
2nd Place: Silver Oak Cabernet 
3rd Place: Brooks Bank Cabernet (On Sale for $14.99!)

SEE VOTING RESULTS: HERE

Listen up folks. 

The snow to wine index has been deployed for the first time in a long time, and it appears everyone needs to get moving.

Most of our stores are clearly in a 3 bottle zone. All of Charlotte, Asheville, Chapel Hill, Morrisville, Raleigh. Man oh man 😂

Dunwoody is squarely in a two bottle situation, but why stop there...

Wilmington appears to be in a one bottle scenario, but honestly at this point who can say for sure.

All this said - we know one thing for sure. We will be drinking wine this evening 😂

What better way to celebrate all this than by grabbing a bottle of the winner of the Silver Oak Blind Tasting from last weekend - still on sale for $9.99 through Sunday.

What had we told you about this one?

Well...

Our blind tastings always seem to produce some upsets, but honestly this one may take the cake.

Highland Falls, one of our best selling wines of all time, won the Caymus Blind Tasting last fall.

A surprise? Sure. But the wine is a known entity. It sells like hotcakes. I could see it winning in the right conditions.

The Silver Oak Blind Tasting?

In this particular case we have a wine that was the last wine we added to the lineup, a virtual unknown, and a wine we have featured in our newsletter just ONE TIME in our 19 year history, that took home the crown.

I'm sorry, what?

I was so worried that nobody would believe us, that we just decided to include the voting results. You can view them here.

581 of you came out last Saturday to test your blind tasting chops across 8 wines - and 25% of you voted Seigneur de Feu in first place. Besting Silver Oak by 14 votes.

These two wines, a $10 wine and an $80 wine, took home 47% of ALL the first place votes.

Just wild...

What is even more insane, is that in the one e-mail we have sent about this wine (and I just read this and it kinda gave me chills), I told you - as kindof a joke - that Seigneur du Feu was basically like Silver Oak but only for $10 because of the use of American Oak in the wine. 👀

Here is what we told you:

"Throughout the last two centuries of winedom, French wine has been aged in French oak. Or has it? In the 19th century, French forests, planted for warships, were plentiful enough for barrels too. In the early 20th century, barrels made from Eastern European oak became more common, especially after WWI decimated French forests. But they were replanted with purpose; the barrel industry returned and has dominated the idea of top flight wine ever since. Yet, American oak is crucial to many other wine regions: Spain, Australia, the U.S., maybe even Silver Oak (they love that vanilla smell). So this is a southern French Cab with American oak’s lashing of coconut and sawdust – the classic aromas of American oak barrels.

Maybe think Silver Oak from France, but only costs $9.99? There may be some hyperbole in there, but you get the idea! 😂"

Have we just uncovered the next big thing?

I have no idea.

But this is so damn exciting I barely know what to say.

I know what I'm drinking tonight!

Remember to stay safe...and please keep up to date on the snow / wine index as it can change at any moment. We could be in a six bottle situation by 4pm!

To order you can:

Order ONLINE for IN STORE or CURBSIDE PICKUP / SHIPPING



E-mail us HERE

Call ahead for IN STORE / CURBSIDE PICKUP:

Call DUNWOODY @ 470-709-2289

Call ASHEVILLE @ 828-417-7305

Call RALEIGH @ 919-747-9077

Call CHAPEL HILL @ 984-234-0446

Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479

Call MORRISVILLE @ 919-694-5028

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

🤯 Winner of the Silver Oak Blind Tasting is... - You're not going to believe this... 🤯

01.07.2025

2022 Seigneur du Feu Cabernet

Release Price: $20.00
Vivino Avg Retail Price: $15.75 (HERE)
SALE Price: $9.99 (net)
SAVE 50%



SALE price runs Tuesday January 7th, 2025 - Sunday January 12th, 2025

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Order of Finish:
1st Place: Seigneur du Feu Cabernet Sauvignon
2nd Place: Silver Oak Cabernet 
3rd Place: Brooks Bank Cabernet (On Sale for $14.99!)

SEE VOTING RESULTS: HERE

Our blind tastings always seem to produce some upsets, but honestly this one may take the cake.

Highland Falls, one of our best selling wines of all time, won the Caymus Blind Tasting last fall.

A surprise? Sure. But the wine is a known entity. It sells like hotcakes. I could see it winning in the right conditions.

The Silver Oak Blind Tasting?

In this particular case we have a wine that was the last wine we added to the lineup, a virtual unknown, and a wine we have featured in our newsletter just ONE TIME in our 19 year history, that took home the crown.

I'm sorry, what?

I was so worried that nobody would believe us, that we just decided to include the voting results. You can view them here.

581 of you came out last Saturday to test your blind tasting chops across 8 wines - and 25% of you voted Seigneur de Feu in first place. Besting Silver Oak by 14 votes.

These two wines, a $10 wine and an $80 wine, took home 47% of ALL the first place votes.

Just wild...

What is even more insane, is that in the one e-mail we have sent about this wine (and I just read this and it kinda gave me chills), I told you - as kindof a joke - that Seigneur du Feu was basically like Silver Oak but only for $10 because of the use of American Oak in the wine. 👀

Here is what we told you:

"Throughout the last two centuries of winedom, French wine has been aged in French oak. Or has it? In the 19th century, French forests, planted for warships, were plentiful enough for barrels too. In the early 20th century, barrels made from Eastern European oak became more common, especially after WWI decimated French forests. But they were replanted with purpose; the barrel industry returned and has dominated the idea of top flight wine ever since. Yet, American oak is crucial to many other wine regions: Spain, Australia, the U.S., maybe even Silver Oak (they love that vanilla smell). So this is a southern French Cab with American oak’s lashing of coconut and sawdust – the classic aromas of American oak barrels.

Maybe think Silver Oak from France, but only costs $9.99? There may be some hyperbole in there, but you get the idea! 😂"

Have we just uncovered the next big thing?

I have no idea.

But this is so damn exciting I barely know what to say.

I know what I'm drinking tonight!

Let's do this!

To order you can:

Order ONLINE for IN STORE or CURBSIDE PICKUP / SHIPPING



E-mail us HERE

Call ahead for IN STORE / CURBSIDE PICKUP:

Call DUNWOODY @ 470-709-2289

Call ASHEVILLE @ 828-417-7305

Call RALEIGH @ 919-747-9077

Call CHAPEL HILL @ 984-234-0446

Call WILMINGTON @ 910-239-9479

Call MORRISVILLE @ 919-694-5028

Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

🍷 Blind Taste Silver Oak vs. $25 Rivals! 👀

01.02.2025

Taste Silver Oak Blind vs. $25 Rivals!

Saturday January 4th, 2025
9am - 8pm
All Day Long!!

Also WIN a 3 LITER of 2019 Silver Oak!



Complete The Tasting, Vote for your Favorite, and you will be entered to win a 3 LITER Of 2019 Silver Oak Alexander Valley!

#1 Comment from the end of the year feedback / message box was "more blind tastings!"...so we're just gonna start the year off right, and give the people what they want!

This Saturday we're hosting the OG, the original, the groundbreaker blind tasting - our Silver Oak Blind Tasting.

We first hosted this event in January of 2007...so it's been running awhile 😁. 

Also, for the second year in a row here at winestore., once you complete the tasting and vote for your favorite wine, you will be entered to win the 3 Liter.

Possible way to spice up your next party? I think so.... 😂

It's the tasting that brought you winners like Rockus Bockus ($12.99), Gun Bun Mountain Cuvee ($14.99), Ca' Momi ($7.99) , BR Cohn Silver Label ($18.99), Treana Red Blend ($24.99) Snowvale ($12.99) and more. It's the tasting that brings the stars of the wine world to their knees.

It almost seems unfair, I mean a Maserati is supposed to go faster than a Yugo, and a $60 wine is supposed to taste better than a $12 one. Right? Well, maybe not. A wine's success isn't measured in MpH, it's measured in the taste that is transferred from the glass to your mouth. If you don't know the price, can't see the label, and can't hear someone barking in your ear about the wine's "score," then all that is left is the juice and your taste buds. It's a scary proposition for any winemaker. That's why you have marketing departments that design catchy labels, create campaigns to build a wine's image, and spend all of their time and energy essentially trying to convince consumers that a wine is great. The problem is that you can't out "market" a blind tasting.

🍷$41.99 down to $19.99 - ONE DAY ONLY!🍷

01.01.2025

2018 Pontey Lamartine Pessac-Léognan

Lowest Online US Price: $48.29 (HERE) - ($41.99 is a six pack price - 1-2 bottle price is $48.29) 
SALE Price: $19.99 (net)
SAVE 58%



Lowest Online Price in the US!

SALE Price good TODAY ONLY - SALE ends TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT!

Even though our stores are closed today, each New Year's Day we do a one day sale on our website to ring in the new year - and the catch is the wine has to be offered at our lowest price EVER. That's right...one time only, to kick of the new year right, lowest price we will ever offer.

It's kinda how we roll.

So to say goodbye to 2024 and welcome in hopefully a wonderful 2025, we are offering one of our favorites for an absolutely silly price of $19.99 (I'm getting fired up just writing this!)
 
We tasted this wine for the first time last year and absolutely loved it, and our love seemed to be matched by you guys as the first week it landed, I watched two customers buy straight cases of it after just tasting it on the machine. 
 
Flying overseas to find wines like this has really transformed some of our offerings as of late. We’ve opined many times recently that the quality level of our $25-$75 collectible offerings has never been higher, and the value we currently have in store between $20 and $60 I would put up against anyone in the US right now. We used to be at the mercy of our distributors and importers, all of which offer a relatively limited selection of wines compared to what is available globally. Being able to find something like Pontey Lamartine Pessac, and be able to offer it for $19.99 per bottle, just gets me really excited.
 
I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Eve!

Here's to an amazing 2025!

Let's do this!

To order you can:



E-mail us HERE