La garagista | Vinu Jancu | Vermont La Crescent | 12,5 alc./vol. | $36.99 / 750ml
It is our great pleasure to announce the latest release of craveable wine from La garagista… Vinu Jancu.
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La garagista: n. one who makes wine in a garage; one who works in a garage; one who uses all parts of a garage.
Vinu Jancu
Vinu Jancu is an old Sicilian name for white wines made in an orange wine manner. This style has a deep nobility with a long history in the Eurasian production areas of Armenia & Georgia, but also found in Italy, Sicily, and other alpine areas of Europe. The white wine grapes are treated like red grapes: the juice ferments on the grape skins and remain sur lie long afterward, taking on more color (hence the orange), tannin, texture, and aromatics.
This Vinu Jancu is made from La Crescent, a descendant of Muscat de Hambourg, and grown on the hills and valleys of Vermont. Hand-picked and hand-sorted, this honest, unfiltered wine was crushed traditionally and fermented on native yeast at our cantina, and remained sur lie for the winter in glass demijohns.
– Deirdre Heekin & Caleb Barber / Visit us at lagaragista.com
It’s that wonderful time of the year when we delve into the depths of our beer cave, and unearth beers from the depths of our hoard to stun your senses!
First off, the BIGGEST RELEASE OF THE YEAR IS 9:00 AM SATURDAY, JULY 22nd. NOT Sunday.
07/21 10:00 AM – Friday Highlights – Vintage Stouts, Lawson’s (WHEN DELIVERY IS COMPLETE – We can’t sell beer we don’t have!) Finest Liquids, Sour Beer, Fresh IPA
07/22 SAT 9:00 AM – BIGGEST RELEASE OF THE YEAR!! Details coming VERY soon! You don’t want to miss out.
07/23 SUN – Details coming soon
FRIDAY, JULY 21st DETAILS:
07/21 Lawson’s Finest Release: When the truck arrives, it is usually out for sale by 10a
Sip of Sunshine – 2 packs per person – In Stock 🙂
Hopzilla Double IPA Bottles – Sold Out 🙂
07/21 Fresh VT Beer Release: 10a
The Alchemist Heady Topper – 1 pack per person
Make The Cut | Squeeze The Day – Homebrew champion Fruit sour 4 pack cans – NEW
14th Star Vermonter Weiss | Berliner Weiss – NEW
Burlington Beer Co. | Peasant King DIPA
Frost Beer Works | Mistral
Lost Nation | Smoked Helles – NEW
07/21 Friday 10a Release – Select One BOTTLE:
2017 Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS)
2016 Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS)
Lawson’s Finest Liquids & Otter Creek | Double or Nothing
Siren | Caribbean Chocolate Cake
Firestone Walker | Parabola
07/21 Friday Special Release:
Les Trois Mousquetaires | Porter Baltique – Special Edition Brandy & Bourbon Barrel Aged
Founders | Lizard of Koz – Blueberry Bourbon Barrel Stout
Almanac | Farmer’s Reserve Cru – 2015 Vintage
The Bruery | White Chocolate Boubon Barrel & Vanilla
We are filled with glee to have our prestigious wine cave inventory online!
Other websites offer shenanigans and auctions, we simply offer our in stock, amazing climate controlled wine portfolio ready to take home or give as gifts!
Check it out and try not to drool too much on your device 🙂
Jazz Odyssey | Teutonic Wine Company | Willamette Valley White Blend | $13.99
The Official Wine of the Winooski Jazz Festival –
The Winooski Jazz Festival is here which brings along aural delights… be sure to take care of your other senses with the official festival wine… Jazz Odyssey from Teutonic Wine Company!
Jazz Odyssey is a field blend of Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Chardonnay and from the Wasson Vineyard in the Willamette Valley. This zippy refreshing wine is semi-sweet, hits of carmelized green apple, peach nectar and honey comb with refreshing acid.
Experience the Jazz Odyssey and see where it takes you.
12% Alcohol by volume
About Teutonic Wine Company:
It all started in 2002 when Barnaby was the wine buyer at Papa Haydn Restaurant in Portland’s southeast location. German wine importer Ewald Moseler, showed him 14 different Rieslings from Germany’s famed Mosel wine region. Barnaby bought all 14 and started one of the largest German wine lists in Portland. That same night he told his wife, Olga that he needed to learn how to make wines that are as expressive to terroir (expression of the place the grapes are grown) as these Rieslings.
Without a clue as to how to start or find investors for financial backing, we (Barnaby and Olga) started on a long journey into one of Oregon’s most difficult industries- the wine business. As our luck would have it, a friend of ours offered her fallow farm land in Alsea, Ore., to start a vineyard. So in 2005, along with a handful of good friends, we put 2000 vines into the ground, mostly Pinot Noir and some Pinot Meunier and Pinot Blanc. As we were learning how to manage the vineyard, Barnaby left his restaurant career and started as a rookie at a shared winery facility in Carlton.
Barnaby and Olga working the 2013 harvest.
We produced our first commercial vintage in 2008 which included our Estate Pinot Noir from the Alsea vineyard and Pinot Meunier made with fruit from a U-pick vineyard called Borgo Pass. From there, we increased our production by purchasing fruit from other vineyards around the Willamette Valley. We always look for colder sites, higher elevation and dry-farmed vines that are ideally 30 years or older. Today, Teutonic Wine Company produces roughly 6,000 cases of wine per year, all varieties that are typical to the Germany’s Mosel region. These include Riesling, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Chasselas, Gewürztramer, Silvaner, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, Rosé and a variety of white blends. All the wines we make, with the exception of one blend, are single vineyard wines.
Because we love the wines from the Mosel Valley so much, we began traveling there every summer and met some local producers who make superb Rieslings. Barnaby, being tenacious as he is, asked many questions and was able to learn and emulate many of their techniques for making Riesling. Even though Oregon’s soil type(s) is nothing close to ones in the Mosel Valley, our wines are similar in style. When we pour our wines for our German winemaker friends, they nod their heads and smile. That right there tells us we’re doing something right!
We have a small but dedicated team at Teutonic. Alex Neely (green shirt) is our Assistant Winemaker who not only helps in the cellar, but also works the vineyards and the tasting room several days a week. Gus Wahlstrom (far right) has been with us for more than four years. He started out doing the over-night shift during harvest, pressing off one load of fruit after the other. Now he also works in the tasting room, winery and in the vineyards on a regular basis.
One of the highlights of working in the beverage industry is not just being able to share enjoyable libation with customers, but to also meet the people behind the label.
Raptor Ridge winery has a wonderful trifecta of great wine, marvelous people, and good causes they support.
We are proud to carry their refreshing, well balanced Pinot Gris. Not too rich or light, it’s just right and will appeal to a wide swath of white wine drinkers. Think not as light as Pinot Grigio, not as heavy or oaky as Chardonnay, and not as acidic as most Sauvignon Blanc. At $16.99, this wine pairs perfectly with grilled swordfish, lemon chicken, light pasta dishes, and fish taco’s.
Next time you’re in looking for a white wine you probably haven’t had, give Raptor Ridge a try and delight not just your 5 senses… but your sense of supporting a responsible winery doing good things for the community and environment.
2015 Pinot Gris | Willamette Valley
Editor’s Choice | 92 Points Wine Enthusiast
A pretty light gold hue, this wine shines brightly from the first sniff to the last sip. It’s clean and dense, with notes of bee pollen and lemon oil, flavors of apple and pear, and a touch of vanilla cookie. – Paul Gregutt
We founded Raptor Ridge in 1995 to share in the joy of wine-growing, a calling that brings us purpose through a close connection with the land, our community and the industry. Named for our location on a ridge in the Chehalem Mountains AVA, Raptor Ridge is a haven for our native raptors and winery guests. We treat our guests to a revitalizing experience complete with vine side tastings, chef inspired pairings, and yoga retreats in a tranquil setting with a view of four mountaintops. We specialize in hand-grown single vineyard Pinot Noir sourced from a rich tapestry of select Willamette Valley sites plus our own estate, Tuscowallame. We create intriguing wines by blending intuition honed over 20 vintages with the methodical approach of maintaining hundreds of separate lots. The result is an array of vineyard-specific barrels, providing diversity and nuance to the final cellar-crafted cuvées.
– Scott & Annie Shull
2015 Raptor Ridge Pinot Gris
The 2015 Raptor Ridge Pinot Gris was fermented and matured in stainless steel. We strive to maintain a balance of fruit and acidity, while presenting the luscious texture and aromas that the fruit offers. The 2015 vintage includes fruit from Hawk’s View, Dion and Olenik Vineyards (Chehalem Mountains AVA), Bellevue Cross (McMinnville AVA,) and Rudolfo Vineyard, in Wren, Oregon.
A portion of the proceeds from every bottle sold supports iSalud!, a non-profit healthcare program for vineyard workers and their families.
¡Salud! was created by a group of Oregon winery owners and Tuality Healthcare physicians to address the hurdles faced by vineyard workers who cannot meet their basic healthcare needs. Their knowledge of basic health education is poor, and they are overwhelmed by the maze of complex and confusing resources available in the medical system. ¡Salud!’s mission is to fill this gap.
Snuggle up to Maine Beer Co. Lunch Friday, March 31st at 6p during our Make The Cut public voting and Founders KBS release! 1 bottle to the first 10 people in line – get it while you can!
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