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VRAC Wine Your New Favorite Everyday Red and White!

vrac-wine-franceWe are delighted to share with you the flavor and affordability of VRAC wine!

Drink like a (French) local!

Lively and easy drinking, VRAC wine punches well above its weight in giving you a comfortable wine to complement your meal or snag as a host gift.

C’est magnifique!

VRAC follows a centuries old European tradition where villagers buy their wine in bulk ‘en VRAC’ from the local winery.  It comes directly from the winemaker’s barrels, insuring that they are drinking their favorite wine at the most affordable price. Now you can enjoy the VRAC experience for yourself!

vrac-chardonnay-wine-franceVRAC Macon Chardonnay

Appellation Mâcon Protégée

2014  |  12.5% ABV

$13.99  |  750ml

The wines of the Mâconnais region of France are nobody’s idea of a new discovery.  They have always been a reliable source for fresh, crisp, inexpensive whites, and they have remained so.

The wines that used to define the Mâconnais are just a part of a much wider range of styles today, though a large part. This ungainly region in southern Burgundy, where chardonnay is the white grape just as in the Côte d’Or, now produces far more interesting wines than those simple bistro guzzlers.

For almost 20 years, a growing number of Mâconnais producers have been approaching their viticulture and winemaking with a seriousness of purpose once reserved for more-exalted regions. At the same time, celebrated Burgundy producers like Dominique Lafon of Comtes Lafon, the renowned Meursault estate, and Anne-Claude Leflaive of Domaine Leflaive, another top white Burgundy producer, sensed the untapped potential of the region and invested in it. And they are now making excellent Mâconnais wines.

vrac-red-wine-franceVRAC Vin de France Red Wine

2014  |  14% ABV

$9.99  |  750ml

Fruity, light and fresh, an easy wine made in a traditional French countryside style.

As a matter of fact, the term “en vrac” means bring your own bottle. In many French villages locals will bring bottles or jugs to a nearby winery and fill them up with an easy drinking wine to use as their house wine.

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President’s Day Hours

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Happy Presidents Day!

We are as ‘normal’ as we ever are – hours are:

Wine / Beer / Liquor Retail:  10a-9p

Redemption Center:  10a-5:45p

 

The Presidents Day tradition first began in 1800, the year after Washington died. People mourning the late leader celebrated his birthday, and in 1879 the holiday became official. It became a federal event in 1885 and was the first observance.   But the day wasn’t just for Washington for too long — by the 1960s, Congress was requesting the government add Lincoln to the annual festivities. Today, people use it to remember all of the U.S. commander-in-chiefs.

  • Lincoln’s national historical park has a building with 56 steps — one for each year he lived before being assassinated.
  • Warren G. Harding had size 14 feet.
  • Martin Van Buren is responsible for the popular use of the term “OK.”
  • Theodore Roosevelt had a ring with some of Lincoln’s hair inside it.
  • Washington didn’t want to be paid a salary for his work as president.
  • The first president to live part of his term in the White House was John Adams.
  • James Buchanan is the only president to not have a wife. Grover Cleveland started off at the White House single but got married in office.
  • Lincoln was the first president to have a beard.
  • Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an airplane.
  • The infection that killed Zachary Taylor began after he ate a bunch of cherries.
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Les Trois Mousquetaires Grande Cuvée Porter Baltique Bourbon and Brandy Barrel Aged

Warm up this weekend with a big, smooth, deep and delicious beer!les-trois-mousquetaires-grande-cuvee-porter-baltique-barrel-aged*** C’est manifique! ***

Our friends at Les Trois Mousquetaires sent us some of their brandy and bourbon barrel aged baltic porter this week and we are delighted to share it with you while we can.

Les Trois Mousquetaires baltic porter has won multiple gold medals at the World Beer Cup over the years so this barrel aged version is extra special, extra rare, and extra delicious!

100 Points Overall  |  100 Points Style
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  • FLAVORS
    Dark chocolate / Woody / Bourbon / Brandy / Nuts
  • NOTES
    Robust dark lager inspired by Porters from around the Baltic Sea region. This beer is luxuriously round with a mild bitterness. The malts contribute flavors of coffee, chocolate, and vanilla. The use of cherry-wood smoked malt provides a subtle hint of smoke.
  • PAIRINGS
    Smokehouse meats / Chocolate / Pralines /Strong cheese
  • MALT
    85% Québec Malts.  Pilsner, Munich, Cara 60/160, Wheat, Oat, Carafa, Smoked malt
  • HOPS
    Perle, Centennial, Cascade, Cascade du Québec
  • O.G.
    24,7°P
  • F.G.
    6,7°P
  • ALV./VOL
    10,5%
  • SRM
    45
  • BITTERNESS (IBU)
    27
  • AGING
    3-5 Year(s)
  • SIZE
    750ml
  • PRICE
    $18.49
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Lawson’s Mosaic IPA | Sip of Sunshine | Super Session #2

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Lawson’s glorious Mosaic IPA is here accompanied by Sip of Sunshine & Super Session #2!

Mosaic IPA | 1 per person | $8.99/btl

Lawson’s Mosaic IPA – Brewed with copious additions of Mosaic, this single-hop American IPA features juicy tropical flavors of mango and grapefruit combined with herbal and earthy pine character.

Sip of Sunshine IPA Cans | 2 packs per person | $13.79/4pk

Super Session Cans | 12 cans per person | $21.99/12pk $10.99/6pk

Limits are per person of consumption age,
prices do not include VT tax/deposit.

 

 

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Otter Creek Steampipe

otter-creek-steampipeOtter Creek Steampipe California Common has rolled on in… hop on the bus and snag this smooth, easy drinking, VT beer!

6% ABV  |  55 IBU’s

$10.99/6pk | $16.59/12pk

From Otter Creek:

    We burned the rulebooks, and when the smoke cleared we created this counter-culture interpretation of a California Common that’s dosed with juicy hop flavors.  Now available on draught and in 12oz. bottles. 

From Beer Advocate:

California Common / Steam Beer
Description:
     The California Common, or Steam Beer, is a unique 100% American style lager. It’s usually brewed with a special strain of lager yeast that works better at warmer temperatures. This method dates back to the late 1800’s in California when refrigeration was a great luxury. The brewers back then had to improvise to cool the beer down, so shallow fermenters were used. So in a way the lager yeast was trained to ferment quicker at warmer temperatures. Today’s examples are light amber to tawny in color, medium bodied with a malty character. Mildly fruity with an assertive hop bitterness.

    Anchor Brewing Co. trademarked the term “Steam Beer” and as such all other beers must be legally referred to as “California Common.”

     Average alcohol by volume (abv) range: 4.0-6.0%