A Beautiful Weekend Starts Now: Double Rewards, Happy Juneteenth, Wine Tasting & Happy Father's Day!

It's Friday, Juneteenth, 2026.

We wish a very happy day to all who celebrate! To contribute what we can to the festivities, we're offering Double Rewards all day long today. Swing by, stock up, and pick out a gift for the dads in your life while you're at it.

Tonight's tasting in the shop, 5–7PM, is all Wine Traditions with Leigh Ranucci. The 10% discount on wines poured during the tasting still applies, even with the double points. We're practically giving this stuff away (don't tell our bookkeeper).

Upcoming Tastings

Saturday, June 27th, 4–6PM: Joey from Pawtucket-based distillery Red-Eyed Spirits will be sampling some Amaro and Akvavit. These are compellingly tasty, and you may have already encountered them at select bars and restaurants.

Thursday, July 9th, 5–7PM:Liquid Fables, from Beacon, NY, will be in the shop with their ready-to-drink "from the farm to the can" cocktails.

And a reminder that we won something — but we don't know what it is yet.

A Little Bit of New Arrivals

Sakonnet Chanbrusco 2024, $21.99 — 100% Chancellor from Little Compton, RI. A delicious, undisgorged, fizzy red. A dash of brett on the nose gives way to deep, joyous, spicy fruit. Drink it chilled. Two of us helped pick Pinot Noir last fall, so we're hoping to see that wine soon too.

Stein x 2 — We are longtime Stein fans (and Vom Boden fanatics, tbh), so it should be no surprise that we have the 2025 Stein rosé, still and secco. It's true, the prices keep inching up. We can't help it — we voted for the competent, smart, not-certifiably-nuts one. But it's Double Rewards Day!

How about a little bit of white Burgundy? In one big bottle? Domaine de la Soufrandiere Saint Véran la Combes Desroches 2024 — 750ml ($58.99) and 1.5L ($124). There's only one magnum, so if you have your eye on it, do not delay!

And then there's this lounging quartet:

• Champagne Bérêche — only 3 bottles, price held steady at $89.99
• A very grapefruity Sauvignon Blanc, Occhipinti SP68 Bianco 2025, $35.99 — salty, honeysuckle, lemon-cream, barely skin-contact
• Cerbaiona Grammatica 2023, $34.99 — made from the same grapes and vineyards as the top-tier Cerbaiona wines. Only free-run wine goes into Cerbaiona's Brunello, Rosso di Montalcino, Collalto, and Santinovo bottlings; the pressings from those wines end up in Grammatica — in other words, making the finest wines requires selecting other wines from the same vineyards, made with the same care.

Ok, notes are below. Cheers to decent humans! Curses, hexes, worst-wishes, etc, upon the rest. You know the drill.

Friday Wine Tasting, 5–7PM: Wine Traditions

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Domaine Philémon Gaillac Perlé Nature 2024 — $18.99

The Gaillac vineyards extend over 73 communes along the Tarn river in the Occitanie region of southwest France, spanning limestone plateaus, hillside vineyards, and alluvial plains. Summers are hot and dry, with most rain falling between September and April.

Domaine Philémon sits in the northeast of the Gaillac appellation, on the Vère River in the small village of Villeneuve-sur-Vère. The Vieules family has farmed here since 1804; today Mathieu Vieules grows wheat, sunflowers, and grapes in equal measure, entirely organically (certified since 2013), and is a member of Nature et Progrès. Twenty hectares of vines, mostly over 55 years old, sit on the Cordes plateau's south-facing, calcareous slopes — planted to the traditional Gaillac whites (Loin de l'Oeil, Mauzac, Muscadelle) and reds (Braucol, Duras, Jurançon Noir).

Gaillac Perlé Nature has been made here since the 1950s. This bottling is 100% Loin de l'Oeil, with freshness coming from naturally retained CO2 rather than any addition — Mathieu adds nothing beyond a touch of SO2 (under 15mg/L) at bottling. Concentrated, with petrol, mineral, and citrus notes.

Domaine des Terrisses Gaillac Rosé 2025 — $15.99

This 40-hectare estate has belonged to the Cazottes family since 1750, on the "Premières Côtes" hillsides facing the Tarn river. Mostly traditional varieties (Mauzac, Len de l'Oeil, Braucol, Duras), with some Syrah and Sauvignon Blanc.

The rosé blends roughly 60% Syrah, 20% Braucol, and 20% Duras, combining direct-press "pressurage" (for the early-harvested Syrah) with "saignée" maceration for the red varieties. Each ferments separately at low temperature, then settles for four months before blending. The result has lovely color, savory regional character, and the structure to improve for at least a year.

Saint Ser Prestige Côtes de Provence Blanc 2023 — $32.99

From Puyloubier, in the Sainte-Victoire sub-appellation (officially recognized in 2005), where the Sainte-Victoire mountains create a cooler, drier microclimate than the surrounding Côtes de Provence.

Domaine de Saint-Ser sits at 400 meters — the highest vineyards in the appellation — south-facing beneath limestone cliffs. Jacqueline Guichot bought the property in 2006 and rebuilt it from the ground up; it's been certified organic and biodynamic since 2017. Her winemaking favors minimal intervention over trend-chasing, exploring how different techniques express terroir.

Raisins Suspendus Embruns Rouge 2023 — $32.99

Savoie • Bugey • Hautes-Alpes

Savoie's winemaking history stretches back to before the Roman occupation of Gaul. In the Gard, Angela Weidner and Maxime Aerts founded Terres du Gaugalin in 2018, farming organically from the start.

Raisins Suspendus is their second project, in the Hautes-Alpes near Savoie, where they began restoring vineyards in 2020. The 1.5 hectares sit on 800–1000 meter hillsides above the Durance, on limestone, marl, and glacial alluvium — century-old vines of numerous, often-unidentified alpine varieties.

Embruns de Cimes is a light, mineral, fruity red from schist soils — a blend of 32 old varieties (70–100 years old) at extremely high altitude (900m average), with very low yields (12hl/ha). Half direct-pressed, half whole-cluster, with a one-week stainless steel maceration to preserve minerality and acidity. Just 11% ABV.