Weekly Specials! 07/21/2025
Red Wine of the Week
Viña Zorzal
Cuatro del Cuatro
Normally $29.99 /
Now on Sale for $19.96
100% Graciano (Navarra DOC)
How It’s Made:
Viña Zorzal makes this red from 100% organic Graciano grapes picked from 40 year old vines. After fermentation, they age the wine for a year in two year-old oak barrels before letting it age for three more years in the bottle.
Why We Like It:
Graciano is a moderately tannic, highly aromatic grape that can pack a punch. Thus, Rioja and Navarra winemakers usually blend small amounts of it with Tempranillo and Garnacha. Here, the brothers Sanz from Viña Zorzal let it take center stage in this tribute to their father Antonio — from the second of their three generation wine family. The Cuatro del Cuatro is medium-bodied and begs to be drunk a little cool. It tantalizes you with wisps of fruit embedded in its acid. Being a higher acid red, it goes great with grilled food.
Rosé Wine of the Week
Scenic Valley Farms
Willamette Valley Pinot Gris
Normally $21.99 /
Now on Sale for $17.96
100% Pinot Gris (Willamette Valley AVA)
How It’s Made:
Scenic Valley Farms makes this Pinot Gris with grapes — half from organic Wild Hare Vineyards in central California’s Lake County and half from their own sustainably farmed vineyards. The grapes spend a week undergoing carbonic maceration to bring out the fruit and to give the resultant wine color. After fermentation, they age 15% of the wine in new Oregon oak barrels.
Why We Like It:
Scenic Valley has given us a pleasantly surprisingly rich rosé that benefits from the structure gotten from the touch of oak that it has seen.
Beer of the Week
Hitachino Nest
Red Rice Ale
Normally $5.99 /
Now on Sale for $4.96 (12 oz bottle)
Rice Ale (7.0% ABV)
How It’s Made:
Naka’s Hitachino Nest Beer in Ibaraki prefecture (near the central eastern coast of Japan’s big island) makes this ale with flaked barley and an ancient variety of rice that’s red (!), imparting both its flavor and color to the beer. They hop it with Chinook hops.
Why We Like It:
We’ve had rice lagers before, but we think this beer may be our first rice ale. Surprisingly complex and smooth, there’s this really interesting play of fruit and grain notes in the off-dry malt. It’s a quiet beer, but it’s quietly really good!