Weekly Specials! 07/28/2025
White Wine of the Week
Marrenon
Les Grains
Vin de Pays de Méditerranée Viognier
Normally $16.99 /
Now on Sale for $14.96
100% Viognier (Mediterranean VdP)
How It’s Made:
Marrenon picks the grapes for this Viognier from plots that are 980 feet above sea level. They have them undergo a twelve hour maceration period (time when the grape juice and flesh sit and soak with the skins) at low temperature, enough to increase the aromatics of the resulting wine.
Why We Like It:
This southern France Viognier throws out its stone fruit notes like a politician throwing out invites to their latest rally, or they sit like a golfball on a tee of elderflower and vanilla. There’s just enough acid hanging around to keep the wine from being flabby and not enough to keep it from being scarily drinkable. It is a wine that is just begging for a porch and a sunset.
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.
Beer of the Week
Gaffel
Kölsch
Normally $15.99 /
Now on Sale for $14.96 (11.3 oz bottle six-pack)
Kölsch (4.8% ABV)
How It’s Made:
Kölsch’s are ales that are the signature beer of Köln in western Germany. People often refer to it as an ale/lager hybrid. This trend is because brewers ferment it with ale yeasts, but then they “lager” it — let it sit in a cold area for a few months to develop its flavor and increase its clarity.
Why We Like It:
If you’re on a steady diet of American craft beers, you can forget how good German beers can be. American craft brewers like the Kölsch style, (Blue Mountain has regularly made a Kölsch-style ale for years.) but the Gaffel is the real deal from Köln. Usually in Kölsch’s, you’ll find a grape-like character to the malt, and that’s here but is much, much lighter that in its American counterparts. The Gaffel Kölsch is clean and cool and very neat.