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🚨 A Top 3 Red Wine For Me This Year 🚨 2022 Chateau Haut Troquart La Grâce Dieu Saint Emilion Grand CruRelease Price Pric...
08/28/2026

🚨 A Top 3 Red Wine For Me This Year 🚨

2022 Chateau Haut Troquart La Grâce Dieu Saint Emilion Grand Cru
Release Price Price: $65.00
SALE Price: $49.99 (net)
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It's my 16th wedding anniversary today, so I'm breaking open a bottle of honestly what is one of the top 3 red wines I've had this year...and it kinda came out of nowhere.

We knew we loved it when we tried it for the first time at Wine Paris back in February, but when I re-tried it 3 weeks ago it was absolutely FIRING. I almost finished the entire bottle myself (this is a judgement free zone folks!)

So what can I tell you about this EPIC wine?

Every year at the largest wine trade show in France, we spend a good amount of time just wandering. What are we looking for? Iconic packaging. We’ve had good luck in seeking out wineries that spend a lot of time thinking about their packaging…as they often spend just as much, if not more time, thinking about the wine that goes inside. It doesn’t always hold up that way, but it does more often than not.

This year, we had one absolutely epic find…Chateau Le Grace Dieu…and the story about how the winery came to be is almost as epic as the wine itself.

This wine?!?!

Single vineyard, 5 acre parcel of Merlot. It's raised in 100% new French oak, and not from a single cooper. They select barrels from multiple tonnelleries each vintage, matching the oak's grain and toast level to the character of that specific year. That is a Grand Cru Classé practice being applied to a five-acre plot by a family of farmers.

The estate calls it une cuvée confidentielle. I love secret wines 😂

You can read the entire estate story by clicking the link in the profile or going here: https://mailchi.mp/winestore-online/hauttroquart-aug2026-105235

I know what I'm drinking tonight!

TGIF!

🟠 Bubbles and Dolly Parton 🟠 Wunsch & Mann Cremant Sparkling Release Price: $30.00 (HERE)winestore. Price: $19.99 (net)S...
08/26/2026

🟠 Bubbles and Dolly Parton 🟠

Wunsch & Mann Cremant Sparkling
Release Price: $30.00 (HERE)
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$1 from every bottle is going to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library on top of our $500 donation!

We're breaking out some bubbles today to celebrate the amazing life of the one and only Dolly Parton.

In an era of celebrities and business folk flaunting wealth, mega yachts, Gulfstreams, and private clubs, Dolly flaunted something else entirely: kindness. Giving Back. Remembering exactly where you come from and taking care of the people that are still there.

She was born in a cabin on Locust Ridge, Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children. Her father, who could neither read nor write, paid the doctor who delivered her with a sack of cornmeal.

There are plenty of roundups on Dolly and the woman that she was, the impact she had and her life story floating all over the internet. One charity in particular that she was most fond of was her Imagination Library, based in her home county and at the start provided a free book, mailed to a child's home, every single month from birth until age five. No forms needed to fill out. No strings attached. Just books showing up for kids in their mailbox.

Today the program has donated over 300 MILLION books to children all over the world, including right here in North Carolina and Georgia.

So this week we are raising a glass to her and we're making a donation of $500 to the Imagination Library today in memory of Dolly Parton. We would encourage you to donate if you can, even $5, to help celebrate a life well lived. You can donate here. We will also be donating $1 from each bottle sold today to the library as well. The thirstier you are, the more books we get to give.

Her family's statement called it "a rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see."

Raise one tonight. Remember what Dolly said, "Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."

😳 Deal of the Year? Oh, it is $9.99 😳 2024 Six Stones Pinot Noir Release Price: $20.00winestore. Price: $9.99 (net)SAVE ...
08/25/2026

😳 Deal of the Year? Oh, it is $9.99 😳

2024 Six Stones Pinot Noir
Release Price: $20.00
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Believe me...or don't believe me...but this may be the deal of the year, and I'm not sure it's gonna be even close.

For starters, real Oregon Pinot Noir for $9.99 basically does not exist. A cursory search of google will confirm this for you.

This begs the question though - why are we seeing it for $9.99. Is something wrong with it? A little long in the tooth? Flavors are off? We ask those questions all the time when we see deals this good pop up.

One taste of Six Stones Pinot Noir and all I can tell you, this wine is darn near perfect. It's better than some $40 Pinot Noirs we have in the store right now.

The main issue, as it is with all the best deals, is that inventory is finite. We have 280 cases at this price and then that is it. (To put that into context you all bought 423 cases of Snowvale last week at $9.99...so expect this to be gone in a hot minute).

Six Stones is a label from Foris Vineyards, and Foris is a name serious Oregon drinkers know. Ted Ge**er went south in 1971, armed with 30 years of weather data, and bought his first 15 acres near an abandoned mining town called Holland, in the hills above Cave Junction. He planted vines in 1974. At the time, he was every bit the pioneer down south that Lett, Erath, Adelsheim, and Ponzi were up in the Willamette Valley. Those guys became household names, but Ge**er just kept farming.

Fifty years later, Foris is still family owned, still farming the same land: 400 acres in a pristine alpine valley at the base of the Siskiyou Mountains, in the Illinois Valley, the coolest and most coastal corner of the Rogue Valley AVA. Warm days, genuinely cold mountain nights, and Pinot that comes out pure, silky, and vibrant. Ge**er was also one of the first believers in Dijon clones, and his propagation program supplied cuttings to top California wineries. The man quietly shaped more of West Coast Pinot than most people will ever know.

First come, first served.

🚨 3rd time in 20 years and it is go time... 2022 Ladron del Palacio Release Price: $50.00SALE Price: $19.99 (net)SAVE 60...
08/21/2026

🚨 3rd time in 20 years and it is go time...

2022 Ladron del Palacio
Release Price: $50.00
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Lowest Online Price in the US!

SALE ends Sunday August 23rd, 2026

Not every offer this week could be $9.99 per bottle 😂 (how many businesses do you hear that from these days!)

This is only the 3rd time we have been able to sell this wine at $19.99 per bottle, and every time we are able to I load up. It is one of my favorite wines in the store, and it may well be my favorite package in the store!
The deal lasts through Sunday, or until we run out of product - whichever comes first.

This will be fun to watch, as this is a little bit of a "if you know, you know" kinda wine. So I imagine for a group of wine buyers this is gonna be like if Porsche suddenly put the 911 Turbo on sale for the price of a Camry. 😂

What makes this stuff so special?

This Spanish powerhouse comes from nearly century-old garnacha vines, yielding some of the lowest tonnage yields I have ever heard of, and is aged in 100% new Taransaud French Oak (think the Ferrari of the barrel world).

Let me put the yields in perspective for you.

Take Le Musigny - one of the most hallowed Grand Cru sites in all of Burgundy, where bottles start around $300 and can run into the thousands. In a good year, Musigny yields about 3,500 liters of wine per hectare.

The ancient Garnacha vines that go into Ladron? They yield just 700 liters per hectare.

That means every 2.5 acres of vines at this site only produces 933 bottles of wine. These are Burgundy Grand Cru yields from Spanish old vines. In Napa, producers would charge $500 for this bottle based on scarcity alone and call it a bargain.

The first time we tasted it we were floored - first by the color (nearly opaque), then by the flavor profile (think the wine equivalent of the movie Roadhouse - powerful, structured, unforgettable), and finally by the price we were offered.

It only further reinforced what we already knew: some of the most outstanding values in all of winedom continue to come out of Spain.

🔥 Our best selling wine at $9.99 per bottle! 🔥 2023 Snowvale Cabernet Sauvignon Release Price: $20.00winestore. Price: $...
08/19/2026

🔥 Our best selling wine at $9.99 per bottle! 🔥

2023 Snowvale Cabernet Sauvignon
Release Price: $20.00
winestore. Price: $9.99 (net)
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Lowest Online Price in the USA!

SALE runs Tuesday August 18th - Sunday August 23rd, 2026

*Curbside Pickup Always Available*

Once a year, at the end of August, we put our best selling wine of all time on sale for $9.99 per bottle. This year was a little different as we also put Snowvale on sale at $9.99 in June to celebrate our 20th Anniversary.

So, for only the 13th time EVER, this week is your chance to secure some Snowvale Cabernet at $9.99.

Next time at $9.99? August 2027!!

For the better part of a decade now, Snowvale Cabernet has dominated the sales charts - and the wine shows no signs of slowing down. It may be the best Cabernet value on the market right now.

Wine legends Baron Ziegler and Rob Fischer are masters of their craft, and the 2022 Snowvale is a perfect example of why what they do is so special.

This 100% Cabernet Sauvignon represents a pretty unreal value. As we've told you before, there are even stores in NC selling this wine for $31! (Picture below). I was also told of a restaurant in Charlotte charging $20 for kids buttered noodles. The world seemingly has lost its mind...but not us.

In an ocean full of uninspiring Cabernet at this price point, Snowvale just works. Tuesday night Tacos? Boom. Wednesday night burgers. Done. Saturday night Netflix. But of course. (anyone watching anything that is must see? I need a new show!

So let the mayhem begin! One week only at $9.99 - until next year!

Happy Tuesday all!

🚨 The best under $20 Pinot Noir we have ever offered? 🚨 2024 Virely-Rougeot Bourgogne Release Price: $30.00SALE Price: $...
08/13/2026

🚨 The best under $20 Pinot Noir we have ever offered? 🚨

2024 Virely-Rougeot Bourgogne
Release Price: $30.00
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I feel like the fact we found these people is almost divine intervention. They were in a booth the size of a small coat closet at the world's second largest wine trade show, mostly meeting with their restaurant and retail clients in Paris. They were kind enough to let us taste some wines three years ago (even though they had none to sell at the time) and we were absolutely floored by the quality.

Which brings me to today's wine, and a dirty little secret about Burgundy.

Appellation boundaries in Burgundy are drawn by committees, not by soil. The vines don't know where the lines are. And this Bourgogne Pinot Noir is the best example of that I can show you: the parcel it comes from sits at the very edge of the Pommard village appellation. The domaine's own technical sheet says it plainly: produced exclusively at the limit of Pommard Village. A few feet one way, the wine gets to say Pommard on the label and charge accordingly. A few feet the other way, it's "just" Bourgogne.

Same limestone soils. Same family. Same cellar.

And here's the part I love: they make this wine exactly the way they make their Premier Crus. Hand harvested (their words: for total respect of the grapes). Fermented for about fifteen days in wooden vats. Then into oak barrels through the winter until malolactic fermentation finishes. This is not the phoned-in entry level wine of the range. It's 1.87 hectares, about four and a half acres, of estate vines getting the exact same treatment as vineyards that sell for multiples of the price.

I know this was a lot to read, but I have all the "feels" for these wines. Wineries are a lot like fashion houses: some things just end up costing more because people are able to market them in the right way, to the right people, not necessarily because of any tender lovin' care. Here you're getting honestly the most TLC I've ever seen put into some wines, at a price to quality ratio that is simply outrageous by Burgundy standard

🔥 THE rosé of summer 2026...??? 🔥 2025 Bleu Blanc Thau Rosé Release Price: $15.00SALE Price: $7.99 (net)SAVE 47% Order O...
08/12/2026

🔥 THE rosé of summer 2026...??? 🔥

2025 Bleu Blanc Thau Rosé
Release Price: $15.00
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One thing I have been thinking about lately is expensive rosé. It feels like it is everywhere right now.

Rosé was never meant to be expensive.

Think about what makes a wine cost a lot of money: new oak barrels, extended aging in the cellar, capital tied up for years before even one bottle can be sold.

Rosé requires none of these things. The wine gets a few hours of skin contact for color, ferments in stainless steel, and is bottled usually within 2-3 months of harvest.

Then 15 years ago Whispering Angel jumped on to the scene and the marketing folks got involved. Whispering Angel now has a rosé in their lineup that sells for over $100 a bottle. The Hamptons runs out of it every summer, and somehow a wine that costs less to make than just about anything else in the product lineup, is carrying a price tag that would make a Burgundy blush.

I say all of this, to say this...it doesn't have to be this way. Bleu Blanc Thau rosé is a PERFECT example.

Three years ago, we learned that the winery behind white wine value superstar Bleu Blanc Thau also made a rosé, so we of course had to try it. So we did...and it was amazing (these guys are good).

Then we found out the price...and it is as if the rosé gods wanted to take us back to the OG provencal rosé: a wine that is inexpensive, endlessly quaffable, and pairs perfectly with everything, or nothing at all.

What are the details?

The south of France has been home to a sea of vines for centuries, though its heyday was the late 19th century after the newly built railroad allowed shipments to fill the carafes of Parisian cafes. Cotes de Thau is gaining notoriety for its rosé wines grown beneath the former volcano of Agde, with a mix of garrigue, sand, nearby sea and lagoons. The Bleu Blanc Thau Rosé is a blend of Cinsault and Merlot made in a crisp, clean, even racy style of pink wine.

So if rosé is your thing (and in the summer it is definitely my thing), you'll want to jump on this bandwagon.

👀 $9.99 and it has become the 2nd best selling Chardonnay in the store in just 12 months... 🎉 2025 Darley Chardonnay Rel...
08/11/2026

👀 $9.99 and it has become the 2nd best selling Chardonnay in the store in just 12 months... 🎉

2025 Darley Chardonnay
Release Price: $20.00
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Reminder we open at 9am Thursday - Saturday

SALE ends Sunday August 16th, 2026

This Chardonnay in just 12 short months has become the #2 Chardonnay in terms of sales at the entire company.

And it is showing no signs of slowing down! Sales are up a mind numbing 236% in 2026 👀

What in the world is going on here?

By now most all of you know about how epic Darley Proprietary Red is...as it has become one of the best selling red wines in our store over the last several years.

Turns out they have a Chardonnay program, previously available to restaurants only, and said Chardonnay is DELICIOUS.

Based on early feedback, I think most of you had the same reaction I had the first time I tasted this wine.

My reaction? Just shut it down.

Nobody even needs to try and make Chardonnay to compete with this stuff, especially when it is on sale for $9.99 per bottle 😂.

I get a smile on my face these days when I meet producers who are really trying to push the boundaries of how excellent wine under $15 can taste, and how awesome wine packaging in that same category can look.

Darley has been stretching those boundaries on the red wine front for some time. It only seems natural that their whites will push the boundaries even further.

Beautiful package, beautiful wine, beautiful price...what else do we need here?

I know what I'm drinking tonight!

🎇 The most underrated grape in the world...??? 🎇 2024 Wunsch & Mann Pinot Blanc Release Price: $20.00SALE Price: $12.99 ...
08/06/2026

🎇 The most underrated grape in the world...??? 🎇

2024 Wunsch & Mann Pinot Blanc
Release Price: $20.00
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Hear me out.

Let me make the case for the most underrated white wine grape in the world.

Pinot Blanc gets no respect. It has no famous appellation of its own, no cult producer, no Instagram moment. In Alsace it's the workhorse: the wine the growers actually drink at lunch, the base of most Crémant, the bottle on the table at every winstub in Colmar. Nobody writes about it because nobody has figured out how to make it expensive.

That is the beauty of this wonderful grape.

Here's what Pinot Blanc actually gives you. Dry. A little white peach. A little almond and white flower. Real texture in the middle, more body than Sauvignon Blanc but nothing like the weight of an oaked Chardonnay. No oak at all, in fact. It's the wine you open when you don't want to think, and then it turns out to be better than you expected. It goes with everything: chicken, pork, shellfish, cheese boards, a Thursday.

Why this wine in particular?

Well, we found these guys at the largest wine trade show in France, and really stumbled on to them when we saw the packaging at a random marketing station. We then sought them out and after one taste...we were hooked.

This lovely bottle is the exact opposite of a wine that needs an occasion.

A great Alsace Pinot Blanc is one of the most useful bottles you can have in the house. It is bone dry but never austere. It has enough body to stand up to real food and enough acid to keep you coming back to the glass. It is not trying to impress anyone, which is precisely why it works.

Serve it cold. Pour it for people who say they don't like white wine. Watch the fireworks 😎.

I know what I am drinking tonight!

🇺🇸 Highland Falls Beverages - Lowest Price We Have Ever Offered! 🇺🇸 Highland Falls Beverage Co Highland Harmony Release ...
08/05/2026

🇺🇸 Highland Falls Beverages - Lowest Price We Have Ever Offered! 🇺🇸

Highland Falls Beverage Co

Highland Harmony
Release Price: $19.99
SALE Price: $14.99 (net)
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Back Porch Bliss
Release Price: $19.99
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SALE price ends Sunday August 9th, 2026

When Highland Falls Beverage Company gives us the go ahead to mark down two of their items to the lowest price we have ever been able to sell them for, we jump at the chance!!

It never ceases to amaze me how many different age groups are embracing Highland Falls THC Beverages.

Highland Falls sent us a recent comment from their inbox attached to this post.

I mean it is ALL age groups that are loving these drinks! It is a really fun category to watch grow and develop.

Why are these drinks seemingly on a sales spaceship to the moon?

In just a few short months these drinks have gone from "What are these?" to a complete frenzy.

Highland Falls’ Delta‑9 THC beverages have converted even our most skeptical tasters. I was suspect of this market for a long time, but after trying this lineup, we've gone all in.

Their two on sale today are their two "entry level" products - at 2.5mg. That is the equivalent of about one glass of wine.

Back Porch Bliss, their version of an Arnold Palmer, is by far my favorite of the entire bunch.

All of their products are gluten‑free, alcohol‑free, and vegan - and low calorie to boot! The Highland Harmony is only 35 calories per can!

On Sale through Sunday!

Address

19400 Jetton Road Suite 204
Cornelius, NC
28031

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 8pm
Tuesday 11am - 8pm
Wednesday 11am - 8pm
Thursday 11am - 8pm
Friday 11am - 8pm
Saturday 11am - 8pm
Sunday 1pm - 6pm

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+17048925662

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