Fancy Pants Wine: Fancy Pants Friday

It's Fancy Pant Friday 

TODAY (Friday, January 27th)
From 4PM – 7.30PM, buy 1 – 11 bottles priced at $29.99 or above and get a 10% discount.
Buy 12 or more, it’s 15%.

You can also order on-line: just put Happy Hour in the comments box
and we’ll put the discount through manually.

Featured Wine: MAGNUM MADNESS!!

Big bottles! Magnums! 1.5 Liters (That’s 2 regular size bottles, for the mathematically challenged.) We (obviously) believe the more wine the merrier. So we’ve put together a great selection of magnums to entice you to share this belief.  And with our MAGNUM MADNESS sale taking place throughout January, you now have no reason not to throw pick up a bottle – or three.

Here’s the scoop:

Buy 1 magnum*, get a 10% discount
Buy 2, get a 15% discount
Buy 3, get a 20% discount

Mix and matching is allowed. To see what's on hand, go to our WINES page, type 'MAGNUM' in the producer/vintage/region field, and hit the search button.

Featured Wine: Wine You Never Knew You Needed: Rhone Valley Gamay

Domaine Romaneaux-Destezat “La Souteronne” 2010: We love this wine. It  has the bright, vibrant red fruits typical of the Gamay grape, but on the finish, there’s a kick of black pepper more typical of the Rhone Valley. It’s complex, a little geeky, and highly drinkable – a mix that we find irresistible. Click through to learn more.

Price: $24.99

Fancy Pants Wine: A Really Good Bottle of Champagne

Spirits : We've Got Booze!!

Distilled spirits. Liquor. Hard alcohol...Whatever you call it, we have it. At least a bit of it.

Given the size of the shop, it shouldn't be a huge surprise that our spirits selection is very, very well edited. But we've managed to sneak in some quirky cool finds, as well as the basics. You can't yet view spirits through our regular wines search page, but click here to see a partial list of what's on offer.

Photo credit: Tripp under Creative Commons Attribution license

Featured Wine: REVERSE DETOX KIT

You’ve fasted. You’ve cleansed. You’ve completed your detox regime. It’s time to move beyond your New Year’s resolutions and make your way back into the real world – where food must be chewed and liquids are not the main course. The Frankly Wines Reverse Detox Kit makes this a bit easier.

3 Pack: Naughty and Nice 2-Pack

3 Pack: Hot and Not 2-Pack

3 Pack: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION SUGGESTION: Get to Know a Grape

Old World/New World 2-Pack – Bordeaux Blend: Bordeaux vs a Bordeaux blend from South Africa. Which one will win? We bet both.

Pack includes:

Featured Wine: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: Try Something New - Wine Clubs!

Stuck in a wine rut? Get yourself out of it with one of our Wine Clubs. We have options…lots of them.

There’s our monthly Sampler, available in two different budget options. Or go for maximum impact with our Bubbling Over sparkling clubs. All are available in 3-, 6-, and 12-month options.

You can also pay as you go: our clubs are available on a month-by-month basis. Just sign up and we’ll keep sending you wine (and charging you for it, we’re not THAT generous) until you tell us to stop.

Click here for details. (Ignore the wonky formatting.)

3 Pack: Cocktail Kit

All boxed up and ready to go, our Cocktail Kits could be the perfect gift for your favorite budding mixologist, bar chef, or whatever they want to be called these days. Each kit includes the fixings for one of Nick's crazy cocktail concoctions + a recipe card.

Choose from:

Not-So-Classic Not-Champagne Cocktail Kit: $65
Old Tom Negroni Kit: $80
Dark & Stumbly Kit: $70

Spirits : GIFT IDEA: Bar in a Box

Since we now have our spirits license, we’ve put together your basic bar needs in one bag. Each set includes 1 bottle each: vodka, rum, scotch, gin, tequila, bourbon and as a FREE bonus,* a bottle of Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth.

42 Below Vodka (80 Proof) (New Zealand)
Denizen Light Rum (80 Proof) (Trinidad & Tobago)
Grant's Blended Scotch Whisky (80 Proof) (Banffshire, Scotland)
Brokers Premium London Dry Gin (94 Proof) (England)
Espolon Silver Tequila (80 Proof) (Mexico)
Bulleit Frontier Whiskey (90 Proof) (Kentucky, USA)
Noilly Prat Original French Dry White Vermouth 375ml (France)

Price: $150 (including tax)

*OK, it’s not really a FREE bottle of vermouth because that would not be legal. But the discount on this line up is nearly equal to the price of the vermouth. So just tell yourself it’s a FREE bottle, and you’ll be happier than if we tell you you’re getting a 3% discount (which is still a good deal, because we almost never discount our spirits.)

Fancy Pants Wine: Something Not So New & Different (but still good!)

It’s true. I admit it. I often find myself yammering on about the new, the different, the latest, greatest, coolest wine you never knew you needed. But sometimes, you just want to stand by the tried and true. Like a nice, rich, creamy California Chardonnay. Well, among the rows of Jura wines and dry muscats and Chateau Musar, we do indeed have a new California Chardonnay that deserves to be highlighted:

La Fenetre Bien Nacido Vineyard 2008 (Santa Maria Valley, California)

Price: $44.99 Click through to learn more.

Spirits : WHISKEY

Kiuchi No Shizuku Distilled Hitachino White Ale (86 Proof) (Japan) - 200 ml:

Distilled craft beers are the newest cool kids on the whiskey block. Which makes sense, since before distillation, whiskey starts out as basically an unhopped beer. However, committing to a bottle of the newest cool kid on the whiskey can be prohibitively expensive. The solution? – A 200ml bottle of a distilled craft beer that costs only a few dollars more than 12 oz of the undistilled version. For those unfamiliar with Hitachino Nest White Ale, it is a fantastic German-style weissbier from Japan. This shipped in quantity to Germany, where it is distilled and infused with orange peel and coriander – the perfect accompaniment to any weissbier. How does it taste? Exactly like a distilled weissbier should. Why are you still reading this and not trying it yourself? Buy one for yourself and one as a stocking stuffer for your favorite beer or spirits geek while youre at it! The bottles are adorable too.

Price: $18.37