Weekly Specials! 02/24/25
White Wine of the Week
Fairfax Wine
Chardonnay
Normally $12.99 /
Now on Sale for $9.96
100% Chardonnay (Santa Lucia Highlands AVA)
How It’s Made:
The Santa Lucia Highlands AVA encompasses terraced vineyards on the east-facing slopes of the Santa Lucia Mountain Range in Monterey County, in California’s Central Coast region. Spanish invaders first planted grapes there in the 1790s, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that vintners saw the area’s potential for focused grape production. Fairfax Wine Company has fermented and aged this Chardonnay in stainless steel, for the most part. They’ve allowed some of the grapes to go through malolactic fermentation, and afterwards they’ve aged those grapes’ wine in oak.
Red Wine of the Week
Tre Secoli
Osél Piemonte Rosso
Normally $18.99 /
Now on Sale for $14.96
Barbera, Merlot (Piemonte DOC)
How It’s Made:
Piedmont wine giant Tre Secoli makes this wine exclusively for one of our longtime distributors of Italian wines (and more) Siema Wines. Tre Secoli mixes sustainably grown Barbera and Merlot and ferments and ages them in stainless steel.
Why We Like It:
The Merlot fattens out the Barbera just a bit delivering a smooth, easy-drinking red. It’s the quintessential table wine.
Beer of the Week
Sojourn / Schilling
Coalesce
Normally $14.99 /
Now on Sale for $13.96 (16.9 oz can four-pack)
Czech-style Pale Lager (4.1% ABV)
How It’s Made:
The Coalese is a collaboration between Schilling Beer Company in Littletown, NH and Sojourn Fermentory in Suffolk, VA, outside of Norfolk. They start with floor malted English and Czech malts, which they mash using the traditional single decoction method. They bitter the wort with a nearly lost French hop from the Champagne-Ardennes region. (Germany’s Locher-Hopfen found it, and here it is now.) Sojourn and Schilling don’t just bitter the wort, they dry-hop the beer with Petit Blanc as you would an Italian Pilsner.
Why We Like It:
As a product of numerous beer traditions, the Coalesce has come together so well. It is such a quietly but thoroughly lovely beer. There’s everything that you’d look for in a Czech-style lager … except more interesting and better. It’s just awesome!