Weekly Specials! 10/27/25
Red Wine of the Week
Les Vignerons de Roquemaure
Rocca Maura
Côtes du Rhône
Normally $19.99 /
Now on Sale for $16.96
Grenache, Syrah, Carignan (Côtes du Rhône AOC)
How It’s Made:
The Rocca Maura collective winery has been making wine since 1922. Today, they are a part of Les Vignerons de Roquemaure. Rocca Maura makes this Côtes du Rhône mostly from Grenache, as you would suspect from a southern Rhône red. After destemming their grapes, they crush them and let them macerate for three weeks. After fermentation is complete, they age wine wine, on lees, in concrete.
Why We Like It:
This wine is an enjoyable southern Rhône red based on a core of strong, plummy berry fruit wrapped in a blanket of soft and spicy tannins.
White Wine of the Week
Opta
Dão White
Normally $15.99 /
Now on Sale for $12.96
Encruzado, Malvasia Fina, Cerceal Branco (Dão DOC)
How It’s Made:
Opta Wines are a project of businessman Camilo Leite and winemaker Nuno Cancela de Abreu who are bent on exporting the “Portuguese-ness” of their wines. To that end, this white is made from a trio of Portuguese grapes — the rarely found outside of the country Encruzado, Malvasia Fina — also known as Bual in Spanish and Boal in Portuguese, and the acidic Cerceal Branco.
Why We Like It:
This wine is a light white with hints of citrus and minerality. It’s very friendly, but it’s wondering where the seafood is that you should be eating with it.
Beer of the Week
New Belgium
Voodoo Ranger
Atomic Pumpkin
Normally $12.99 /
Now on Sale for $11.96 (12 oz can six-pack)
Spicy Pumpkin Ale (6.4% ABV)
How It’s Made:
New Belgium Brewing Company (based in Fort Collins, CO and Asheville, NC) starts this beer with a perfectly respectable malt bill for a light pumpkin ale — Pale malt, Munich malt, and Caramel 120 malt — which they bitter with Nugget hops. They then add pumpkin (we think) and spice the brew with cinnamon. Then — get this — they also spice it with habañero peppers. Yeah, that’s right.
Why We Like It:
So, you’re definitely used to a spiced pumpkin ale, but a spicy pumpkin ale? Here’s the thing … it works much better than you think it will. It’s almost inspired. (This beer was one of this year’s tie winners of our annual Great Pumpkin Taste-Off.) You get the habañero, but there’s only enough to give you taste and a tingle, not enough to get hot, and it works really well with the cinnamon, really bringing it out.