Weekly Specials! 01/13/25
White Wine of the Week
Domaine du Haut Fresne
Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire (Sur Lie)
Normally $16.99 /
Now on Sale for $13.96
100% Melon de Bourgogne (Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire AOC)
How It’s Made:
Made by two brothers and a son/nephew, the key to this wine is the variety of soils that the plots of Melon de Bourgogne grow in. The vines sit on the left bank of the Loire in the Maine-et-Loire department, just east of Nantes. They grow in green rock, green shales, and mica schists soils just for a start. This soil variety contributes to the complexity of this Loire Valley white.
Why We Like It:
There’s a surprising amount going on in this wine — not your familiar minerally, crisp Muscadet. Past the core fruit there’s a surprising whiff of bitterness on the edge, adding to the wine’s character as it fades into hits of vanilla or, maybe, cumin.
Red Wine of the Week
Cantine Colosi
Terre Siciliane Rosso
Normally $18.99 /
Now on Sale for $15.96
70% Syrah, 30% Nerello Mascalese (Terre Siciliane IGP)
How It’s Made:
Cantine Colosi takes Syrah grapes from mainland Sicily growers and native grape Nerello Mascalese that they dry farm on the volcanic island of Salina. They ferment them, allowing them to macerate throughout fermentation. They then age the resultant wine in stainless steel as it goes through malolactic fermentation. Finally, there’s more aging in oak barrels — six to twelve months.
Why We Like It:
Syrah with a dose of Sicily — it’s got notes of spice swimming around a bath of dark red fruit. It boasts tannins that are surprisingly, deepy embedded in the flavor considering how long Colosi lets the juice sit on the skins.
Beer of the Week
Basic City
Lost Town Brown
Normally $12.99 /
Now on Sale for $11.96 (12 oz can six-pack)
American Brown Ale (5.8% ABV)
How It’s Made:
Basic City doesn’t say much about what goes into this beer. Let’s talk about what’s going on with it.
Why We Like It:
With our first sip we said, “Yep. This tastes like Basic City” — (House yeast? Our imagination?) — and, of course, that’s not a bad thing at all. Light-bodied with a caramel backbone, where a lot of American Browns give you a little hop slap along with your tickle, the Lost Town throws out hints of fruit over lightly tingling hops.