🍷 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

We just want to say thank you! 🎉

12.31.2024

Thank you!

December 31st, 2024

Reminder, the following deals end today:
Sneaky Top Wine of 2024 is BACK!
Maison de Palais Voleur for $19.99

It has become a tradition here that we take a moment at the end of each year just to say THANK YOU.

As we approach our 19th Birthday (is this real life?!?), we want to just reiterate how truly appreciative we are of you spending your hard earned dollars with us over the last 12 months and we hope to continue to earn your business as we enter 2025. 

We are humbled by the opportunity to serve each and every one of you, and we don't take it for granted.

Inflation and rising prices continued to be buzzwords in 2024, and we are proud to tell you less than 0.5% of all our products saw price increases this year. Our commitment to everyday low prices means we work tirelessly with our suppliers to keep prices down...and we are going all in on our efforts in 2025. Our goal is price decreases!

Know this...here at winestore. you will always be getting the absolute highest quality product at the lowest prices in North Carolina and Georgia, each and every time. We will treat your money as if it was our own, and give you 5 star service each and every time.

All that said, we are always striving to get better, so if you have any suggestions on how we can improve please write to us by clicking HERE, and let us know the one or two things you think we really need to add to our service offerings, to change, to overhaul - anything at all (heck, even if you just have some positive feedback). Many suggestions from the year end suggestion box have been implemented over the last several years. Everything from name tags, updated hours, and process changes....the customer knows best, and we are listening.

We hope to see you today (we are open until 6pm!) as you stock up for your New Year's Eve! If you're like us, you need some wine before heading to bed at 9pm :)

Also, for what it's worth, if you've been saving a nice bottle for a special occasion - we encourage you to open it up tonight. It doesn't have to be bubbles. Life is short, and our time here is limited. Things can change in an instant. No better time than now to celebrate all we have to be thankful for!

Thank you again, Happy New Year, and blessings to you and your family for a wonderful 2025.

Cheers!

The team @ winestore.

🍷Sneaky Top Wine of 2024 is BACK!

12.27.2024

2022 Vellas Grandes Arenes Rouge

Release Price: $30.00
Lowest Online US Price: $28.99 (Click HERE to see)
SALE Price: $19.99 (net)
SAVE 33%



SALE runs December 27th, 2024 - December 31st, 2024

Lowest Online Price in the US!

One of the items we were going to run as a Holiday Special did not arrive until yesterday (great timing!), but that isn't going to slow us down.

So one of the sneaky best selling wines of 2024 (I say sneaky because it has been out of stock for most of the year!) is back in stock and at the lowest online US price through midnight on December 31st!!

When we first got this wine in stock back in March, you all were the first people in the United States to get to see what may go down as one of the best glass bottles I have ever seen, matched with some super delicious red wine made by winemaking superstar Nicholas Vellas.

We first saw this bottle in February of 2023, and waited to get our allotment of this wine for an entire YEAR. It finally arrived and immediately sold out!

So we attempted to re-order more, and have been waiting six month to get it back in...oh, and fielded a bajillion e-mails and phone calls from customers who got in on the first tranche wondering when it was coming back in stock!

Why do we love it so much (in addition to the glass?!) - a video of the bottle can be found here.

The wine is made from Syrah and Grenache in more or less equal proportions here, and this exhibits what makes Costières de Nimes an increasingly popular and important sub-region of the Rhone Valley. It benefits from the same Mediterranean sun and breezes, and the same limestone soils, as any other southern Rhone appellation.

But here's the catch - unlike so much Châteauneuf-duPape, this stuff is actually affordable!

As an added post holiday bonus, we'll have this on the tasting machine at all 9 stores for just $0.01 all weekend long.

TGIF y'all!

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

🎅🏼 We saved the best for last...ONE DAY ONLY! 🎅🏼

12.23.2024

2021 Cape Charles Sonoma Cabernet

100% Cassata Vineyard Cabernet
Release Price: $53-$105
SALE Price: $19.99 (net)
SAVE 50+%



SALE price is TODAY ONLY!

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Today!

- HOLIDAY HOURS BELOW - 

Could we set a sales record today?

Did we save the best for last? 

Well...we wanted our final deal of the 2024 Holiday Season to be special, and Cape Charles Cabernet for $19.99 seemed like a great chef's kiss to what has been a fun season of wine, friends, family, and general merriment.

Quick note - this wine has never sold for this price before. Ever. 

Since 2021, Cape Charles Cabernet has busted every single sales record we ever had at our stores. Every month, month after month, this wine sits at the top of the heap - and for good reason! This is one of the best sub $25 wines you will find - no matter the region, grape variety, etc. It's one of the best.

At $19.99? We're entered the realm of absurd value.

It's also worth noting this wine was our Wine of the Year in 2022 AND 2023.

A label developed with Baron Ziegler (he's kind of a big deal, you can read more about him here) to take advantage of the high end left over juice, the results have been unreal. The label itself was lent to the project by artist Peter Curling - he's also kind of a big deal and you can read more about him here.
 
We started with Kamen Moon Mountain juice which sold out in just a few weeks. We then doubled down with 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from Leonetti in Washington State. After the Leonetti success we told Baron the next one had to be huge…and he delivered.
 
This 100% Cassata Vineyard Cabernet is the best wine he's released yet, and I'm not sure it is even close.
 
Where / what is the Cassata Vineyard?
 
Rancho Los Guilicos is the historical name for the Cassata family’s estate in prime Sonoma Valley territory. It’s part of the original Mexican land grant from the 1830s, administered by General Mariano Vallejo, and offered to settlers who would attempt to tame this wilderness.
 
Vallejo gave the grant to his sister-in-law who sold it in 1850 to William Hood; the local peak is named after him. It went through a few other hands before it was bought by Judge Carroll Cook, Superior Court Judge of San Francisco. This is when it becomes known as “Rancho El Nido” or “The Nest” and when Jack London and his love for the Valley of the Moon, as well as the Judge’s expertise with cocktails, enters the picture. London’s ranch was at the edge of the property; and Cook planted grapes to make wine.
 
There were only three owners through the 20th century. The Cassata family bought El Nido in 2002, and have since been dedicated to restoring its glory through bio-sustainable farming. They’ve even re-planted olive trees to make olive oil. They’ve focused the vineyard choices on the traditional areas and the grapes that belong there (like the Cabernet family) as well as grapes that have helped build its fame (like Zinfandel and Alicante Bouschet). This is the beating heart of historical Sonoma wine country!
 
As for prices - you’ll find Cassata Vineyard Cabernet anywhere from $53 to $105 per bottle. NEVER has this vineyard ever had wine in the 21st century that has been priced under $20.

One Day Only.

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

Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

🎅🏼 This might be the best ever... 🎅🏼

12.21.2024

2021 Alea Fina Napa Cabernet

Winery Price: $150.00 (Click HERE to see)
SALE Price: $39.99 (net)
SAVE 73%



Win a $1,000 Gift Card? Click HERE 

SALE price good until we run out!

SALE Items this week:
#1 wine most purchased by our team members
First Time Ever at $14.99!
Bennett Valley Pinot Noir for only $19.99
Epic Chardonnay for your Holiday Table
Saint-Emilion Grand Cru for $19.99

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Today!

- HOLIDAY HOURS BELOW - 

In a 33 e-mail strong thread that goes back to October 14th, we were negotiating a deal on 2021 Alea Fina Napa Cabernet - a collaboration between Sebastian Donoso of Bonterra Organics and Conch y Toro and winemaking superstar Paul Hobbs. The wine has all of the pedigree of a triple crown winner, and it is everything you could want from high end Napa Cab. A great video from Paul and Sebastian can be found here.

All that said, the winery retails it for $150.00 per bottle (HERE), and $150 per bottle wine isn’t moving super fast right now. We agreed to buy 50% of their entire available stock, 476 six pack cases, if we could retail it for $39.99 per bottle. They agreed, and here we are!

The wine arrived two weeks ago and in the time it took us to get the wine all the stores in NC and GA, you all have purchased 324 of the 476 six packs 👀

When deals are this good...word gets around.

That leaves just 152 six packs for all North Carolina and Georgia.

There are no words I could put in this e-mail that could adequately convey how silly this deal is…so I will copy and paste from an e-mail I received from a customer just 3 days ago after they had bought a six pack back on Dec 8th, and wanted some more:



He is not wrong...it might be the best deal ever.

This is the lowest price this wine has ever been offered for, by a wide margin, and I would venture to guess given the extreme back and forth we had with the winery, that it will be the lowest we will ever be able to sell it for.

We truly value the opportunity to serve you and your family, and I hope everyone is having a wonderful Holiday Season. If you’ve been saving a nice bottle - open it up. Share it with people that don’t even drink wine. They will love it. No better time then now. I will even come over and help you drink it if you need me to! I can also bring my kids over to hang at your house during Christmas break if you want…😂

Tasting sheets and technical info can be found here and here.

First come. first served!


To order you can:

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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

Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944

Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662

Saturday     12/21       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/22       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

🎅🏼 Lowest Online US Price $44.00 - YOUR Price $19.99 🎅🏼

12.19.2024

2021 Vieux Lescours Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

Lowest Online US Price: $44.00 (Click HERE to see)
SALE Price: $19.99 (net)
SAVE 54%



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SALE runs Friday December 20th - Sunday December 22nd, 2024

SALE Items this week:
#1 wine most purchased by our team members
First Time Ever at $14.99!
Bennett Valley Pinot Noir for only $19.99
Epic Chardonnay for your Holiday Table

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Today!

- HOLIDAY HOURS BELOW - 

We've reached the point in the Holiday Season where the next 4 deals are going to be some of the best we have ever offered...and we'll start with Grand Cru Saint-Emilion for $19.99.

One of the wines that really got me into drinking and collecting wine was Chateau Pavie. It's a blend of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon from this region of Bordeaux...and it's like really, really awesome (that is a professional wine recommendation).

Sadly, it now costs over $350 a bottle (inflation much? 😳), and that's not really in my wheelhouse.

So when we tried the Vieux Lescours for the first time back in 2023, I got that same Chateau Pavie feeling.

We're talking similar grape blend, a vineyard originally planted in 1850, 12 months in 75% new French Oak, and all the acidity a wine like this needs to be an age worthy rock star.

That $350 Chateau Pavie feeling for $19.99 is what I look for in wines I drink.

It also doesn't hurt that this is 54% lower than the already lowest online price for this wine in the US.

You guys know that is how we roll!

Price is good till Sunday or honestly until we run out (a Corporate Customer purchased 436 bottles of this earlier this week so that took a chunk out of our inventory!)

TGIF!! 99% chance I am drinking this 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

Friday          12/20       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/21       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/22       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

🎅🏻 Bennett Valley Pinot Noir for $20?!?! 🎅🏻

12.18.2024

2023 Willowlake Pinot Noir

Release Price: $40.00
SALE Price: $19.99 (net)
SAVE 50%



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SALE runs Wednesday December 18th - Sunday December 22nd, 2024

SALE Items this week:
#1 wine most purchased by our team members
First Time Ever at $14.99!

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Today!

- HOLIDAY HOURS BELOW - 

7 Days until Christmas? How is that even possible? Wasn't it February like a hot minute ago?

Today, as our deal train goes on, we are bringing you 100% Bennett Valley Pinot Noir from Sonoma County for only $19.99 per bottle.

Dare I say it...this is the best Willowlake Pinot they have ever made?

Why is it so amazing?

Wine wizards Baron Ziegler 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 - last year it was out of stock from April through September and this 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 a THREE 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) Top wine in the world according to Vivino
3) 3 time Belle Glos Blind Tasting winner

Perfect for the Holiday table? YES!

Perfect for tonight watching another episode of Landman? ALSO YES! (seriously, is anyone else watching that show?)

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

Wednesday  12/18     9am - 8pm

Thursday     12/19      9am - 8pm

Friday          12/20       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/21       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/22       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

🎅🏻 First time EVER at $14.99 🎅🏻

12.17.2024

2021 Snowvale Sierra Foothills

Release Price: $80.00?
Regular winestore. Price: $24.99 (net)
SALE Price: $14.99 (net)
SAVE 81%



Win a $1,000 Gift Card? Click HERE 

SALE runs Tuesday December 17th - Sunday December 22nd, 2024

SALE Items this week:
#1 wine most purchased by our team members

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Today!

- HOLIDAY HOURS BELOW - 

We are not slowing down. Today is one we have been waiting to release for almost 6 weeks.

In a deal we were able to cut back in November, the powers that be are giving us enough support to go out with Snowvale Sierra Foothills at $14.99 per bottle. This is the first and will be the only time this wine will see this price.

I think a cursory search around google for wines from this AVA will let you know that this deal is pretty silly.

A century and a half ago, the Sierra Foothills was the scene of a whole lot of winemaking. Why? Because there were many, many thirsty men there, all assembled around a pan and a creek or a little seam of possible gold. Sad to say, we don’t know what those wines were like. But we do know that there are still many century old vines in them thar hills.
 
This particular sample came from the iconic Shake Ridge Ranch (you can read more about it here) and from a winery I was not familiar with (whose name I cannot disclose but it starts with a K 😁). We tasted some great wines the day we tasted with this group, but this red blend stole the show. We were not told what was in the wine and this winery makes so many different bottlings it is hard to try and figure it out - but based on the fact it is from Shake Ridge I am guessing it is from the Rhone components that make up their only Shake Ridge Bottlings (both $80).
 
More importantly though, it really didn’t matter to us the grape varietal composition - the wine was so good we were buying it no matter what.
 
Baron Ziegler, who brings us all these treats, continues to impress. In the current California red wine market, to be able to bring you single vineyard offerings of this quality for $14.99 continues to boggle my mind. But these guys just keep bringing the goods, and the bulk wine market right now is an embarassment of riches...if you know where to look.

So....6 days only. $14.99. We could not be more pumped about this!!!

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

Tuesday       12/17     9am - 8pm

Wednesday  12/18     9am - 8pm

Thursday     12/19      9am - 8pm

Friday          12/20       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/21       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/22       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

🎅🏻 #1 Wine Most Purchased By Our Team Members - ON SALE for $9.99! 🎅🏻

12.16.2024

2023 Histoire de Grains "Marselan"

Release Price: $20.00 
SALE Price: $9.99 (net)
SAVE 50%



Win a $1,000 Gift Card? Click HERE 

SALE runs Monday December 16th - Sunday December 22nd, 2024

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Today!

- HOLIDAY HOURS BELOW - 

What is the #1 most purchased wine by winestore. team members in 2024 (which honestly that is the stat I love to see most as a consumer- what do the people that work there drink)?

Histoire de Grains "Marselan"

The 2023 Histoire de Grains (which is 100% Marselan), is a testament that amazing wine simply does not need to be expensive.

Wait.........what in the world is Marselan?

Throughout the expansive Roussillon-Languedoc are some of the more adventurous French grapes with which you might not be familiar – Marselan is at the top of the heap. It’s a crossing of Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache and in the last quarter century is being looked to as one of the grapes that might save France from climate change. Will it? Who the heck knows. But it certainly is interesting stuff: a bit lighter than Cabernet Sauvignon but with some of its strengths and backbone. Bordeaux has just recently chosen it as a newly approved grape there; they see its character and future importance as well.

So to celebrate this wine hitting #1 team member purchase we're putting it on sale for $9.99 per bottle through Sunday. Please also note this is only the second time this wine has ever seen this price since we started carrying it!

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

Monday        12/16     9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/17     9am - 8pm

Wednesday  12/18     9am - 8pm

Thursday     12/19      9am - 8pm

Friday          12/20       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/21       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/22       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

🎅🏻 Bordeaux that could age 40 years for $24.99?? 🎅🏻

12.13.2024

2021 Chateau Carteau Saint-Emilion

Release Price: $50.00 (Click HERE to see) 
SALE Price: $24.99 (net)
SAVE 50%



Win a $1,000 Gift Card? Click HERE

SALE runs Friday December 13th - Sunday December 15th, 2024

SALE Items this Week:
Sparkling Fun for $9.99
Boutique White Burgundy for $12.99?
The Best $15 Cabernet You'll Ever Try?
Tuscan Icon 28% less than Total Wine!

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Today!

- HOLIDAY HOURS BELOW - 

When the Holiday deals start rolling, it's tough not to get caught up in the fun.

It kinda feels like when Oprah just started giving away cars.

So for this weekend we wanted to do something special, and Chateau Carteau for $24.99 fits that bill. I'm feel almost giddy just writing about it.

This is the lowest price we've ever seen this wine in the US (at least in the last 20 years), and the wine is, quite simply put, stunning.

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.
 
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 2021, 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.

So I'm buying a case at this price.

Am I going to age it for 40 years?

I have no idea...but one thing I know for certain, is I am opening a bottle tonight 🤣

TGIF! Three days only!!




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

Friday          12/13       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/14       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/15       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday        12/16     9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/17     9am - 8pm

Wednesday  12/18     9am - 8pm

Thursday     12/19      9am - 8pm

Friday          12/20       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/21       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/22       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

🎅🏻 Total Wine price $34.99 - winestore. price $24.99 🎅🏻

12.12.2024

2021 Petrolo Torrione

Total Wine Price: $34.99 (Click HERE to see)*
winestore. Price: $24.99 (net)
SAVE 28%



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SALE runs Wednesday December 11th - Sunday December 15th, 2024

SALE Items this Week:
Sparkling Fun for $9.99
Boutique White Burgundy for $12.99?
The Best $15 Cabernet You'll Ever Try?

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Today!

- HOLIDAY HOURS BELOW - 

The holiday deals continue to roll out, and today we have a doozie! (also how are there only 2 weeks until Chrismas?!?!?!?)

How about 28% off Total Wine on an icon of Tuscan wine??

Yes, please!

A relatively young estate by Tuscan standards (since 1834), Petrolo lies in the Colli Aretini, outside of the Chianti Classico region. Nonetheless, this little hilltop is every bit as good as the “classic” spots and, for its entire history, has nurtured not just Sangiovese but also Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, just as brands such as Sassicaia (which costs like $300 per bottle) have done. Torrione is the blend of grapes from all the vineyards of Petrolo (80% Sangiovese, 15% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon) and since 1988 has been the standard bearer for this esteemed estate.

Let's keep it short and sweet today, shall we?

Oh and yes, 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

Thursday     12/12     9am - 8pm

Friday          12/13       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/14       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/15       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday        12/16     9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/17     9am - 8pm

Wednesday  12/18     9am - 8pm

Thursday     12/19      9am - 8pm

Friday          12/20       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/21       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/22       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

*Total Wine Price taken at 7:56 am on Dec 12,2024 from their Alpharetta GA location

🎅🏻 Boutique White Burgundy for $12.99?! 🎅🏻

12.10.2024

2023 Tatiana Guillot Macon Villages

Release Price: $25.00
SALE Price: $12.99 (net)
SAVE 48%



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SALE runs Tuesday December 10th - Sunday December 15th, 2024

SALE Items this Week:
Sparkling Fun for $9.99

Lowest Online Price in the US!

Reminder we open at 9am Today!

- HOLIDAY HOURS BELOW - 

My biggest kinda gripe as of late has been that I feel like more and more places are just charging higher prices and delivering lower quality. I'm sure I'm not alone.

That's why I'm glad wineries like Tatiana Guillot still exist in the world. Yes, Santa, I do want a White Burgundy that actually tastes amazing, delivers exceptional quality, and only costs $12.99 per bottle.

I want a wine I can serve at my party, to my friends, that is going to wow them...AND not break the bank.

The Guillot Family has been making Chardonnay in Burgundy for generations, but this is the first offering we have ever seen from them that we could sell at this price.

Oh, and this is not just your regular ol' Mâcon...

Macon Villages was once a bigger deal, or at least it was once a wine that absolutely every restaurant had to pour by the glass. Some of the biggest names in the business started their careers in this airy, Chardonnay-laden territory (you know, like Georges Duboeuf, for one).

In the climate change era, Macon seems to be morphing from light and slightly generic to richer and even slightly buttery. But only slightly. Remember that Chardonnay in France is almost always more about the minerals than the butter; Macon is clean and crisp and tangy. Yet, it is increasingly weighty.

That's what you get here, and it's really something...we’re not quite to California richness yet, but who knows?

Chardonnay lovers unite! 

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

Tuesday       12/10     9am - 8pm

Wednesday  12/11     9am - 8pm

Thursday     12/12     9am - 8pm

Friday          12/13       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/14       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/15       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday        12/16     9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/17     9am - 8pm

Wednesday  12/18     9am - 8pm

Thursday     12/19      9am - 8pm

Friday          12/20       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/21       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/22       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

🏆 OUR Wine of the Year 🎅🏻

12.06.2024

2022 Palace Thief Cabernet Sauvignon

Release Price: ?
SALE Price: $34.99 (net)



RUNNER(S) UP!



2022 T. Solomon Pinot Noir
Release Price: $105.00
SALE Price: $24.99 (net)
SAVE 76%



2022 Snowvale Cabernet Sauvignon
Release Price: $20.00
SALE Price: $10.99 (net)
SAVE 45%

Win a $1,000 Gift Card? Click HERE

YOUR Wines of the Year: HERE

YOUR Wines of the Year Features:
$19.99 For Chalk Hill Cabernet is UNHEARD OF
Benieres Continues its EPIC Run...

YOUR Wines of the Year Sale ends TONIGHT at Midnight

OUR Wine of the Year Sale ends Sunday night!

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Our team gets no direction in how they can vote for our Wine of the Year. The only thing we ask is that they think about the wine that has had the biggest impact on our customers.

The voting was unanimous for first place - 2022 Palace Thief Cabernet Sauvignon.

Back in July when this wine was released, we told you this is most likely the best deal we had ever offered in 18 years in business.

After seeing customer and team member reaction around this wine, I'm able to potentially take it one step further. This is one of the best deals I have ever seen offered in the wine business...period. You don't have to believe me...ask anyone who has tried it 😁

What is going on here?
 
Back in January, I had the following text exchange with a winemaker we work with in California.
 

 
There was some more to it, but this is all I can show you. It was a sample bottle of 100% Cabernet from a winery in Columbia Valley Washington, and the initials of the winery were on the sample (I had to black them out).
 
I also can’t tell you the winery name, but it’s not going to take you long to figure out what we are talking about here. They make maybe the most famous Cabernet in Columbia Valley. The winery has twenty six 100 point scores. They are one of the top Cabernet producers in the United States. They’ve been referred to as an American first growth. Etc. Etc.
 
We ended up buying this entire lot, and we are now able to bring you this 100% Cabernet from this winery for only $34.99 per bottle. I’m not sure I need to tell you all anymore than that 😎
 
Two of the first people who bought this wine when it landed back in July purchased 9 cases and 7 cases respectively (one of them has since re-upped!). I had mentioned rumblings about this wine being a possibility in a newsletter back in February, and they had been waiting for it ever since. 

Since that release, the feedback has been over the top positive. Just yesterday a local media executive sent out his weekly newsletter (Tiny Money) and called Palace Thief (and runner up T. Solomon mind you) his picks for "Teds Reds" (pic below)



We started the week with just 238 cases of Palace Thief left before it is gone for good. As of today, prior to this e-mail, there are just 141 left (I think people are picking this for their Holiday Gifts!).

So will it run out this weekend? I can't say for sure.

All I can tell you is that if you like high end Cabernet, and you have not tried this....treat yourself! You won't be disappointed.

On another note, we also just want to say THANK YOU, to all of you. We love competing against the big guys and the ability to bring you the highest quality wines and guaranteed lowest possible prices. Your continued support allows us to keep pressing the envelope on what is possible, and I promise we don't take it for granted.

Enjoy this one, and if there is ever anything we can do for you - just ask! We are here to serve you!


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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

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Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

🎅🏻 Chalk Hill Cabernet for only $19.99?!?! 🎅🏻

12.03.2024

2022 Willowlake Chalk Hill Cabernet

Release Price: $160.00?
SALE Price: $19.99 (net)
SAVE 87%



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I spent the better part of 90 minutes yesterday trying to find any 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from Chalk Hill for $19.99 or less.

I could not find one - and the pedigree from this one makes this deal that much more special.

You may have had some of the Willowlake Cabernet wines over the years. It is the one off project we started with a guy named Baron Ziegler where we took one off lots from some of the biggest names in California Cabernet and sold them at crazy prices. Names like Realm, Dunn, Dominus (The Dominus was something else!). Crazy stuff - and we usually tried to hit a $49.99 price point or lower.
 
The catch was we would only do it if the deal was off the charts. It couldn’t just be good, or ok…it had to be lights out. That’s why the last Willowlake release before this one in August was all the way back in August of 2022. We simply had not found anything that met those standards…until February 2024 rolled around.
 
So anyway, way back in February, one of the biggest names in California wine approached us with a proposition. We could buy a tranche of their Chalk Hill Estate Cabernet lot that goes into their flagship wine and the price would be “aggressive”.

While I can't tell you the name of the winery in this e-mail -  a cursory search around Google for Chalk Hill Cabernet from a top name at $160 per bottle should lead you to the right location 😁.
 
We tasted it, found out about the price, and we bought every case they would let us buy. You all then tried to buy every single bottle that we had which ended up landing this wine in YOUR top wines of the year.

To celebrate, we have placed it on sale through Friday for $19.99 per bottle - but there is a chance we might run out of it at this price.

Just yesterday, most likely driven by the crazy price, you all bought 62 of the remaining 243 cases of this wine. At that rate the wine is going to be gone by Thursday. Just a heads up!!
 
I’m not sure how much California Cabernet you all are drinking - but I think we’re all on the same page when I tell you $19.99 for estate grown Cabernet from Chalk Hill aged in French Oak is something that…how does one say…that does not exist in the marketplace. 
 
Get while the gettin' is good.

First come, first served.


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

Tuesday       12/3     9am - 8pm

Wednesday  12/4     9am - 8pm

Thursday     12/5      9am - 8pm

Friday          12/6       9am - 8pm

Saturday     12/7       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/8       10am - 6pm (12:30pm in GA)

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Saturday     12/21       9am - 8pm

Sunday       12/22       10am - 3pm (12:30pm in GA)

Monday       12/23.      9am - 8pm

Tuesday       12/24.     9am-3pm

Wednesday  12/25       CLOSED - MERRY CHRISTMAS!