Wine Authorities - Estate Grown Blog
Grand Poobah Wine Swami is the creator and owner of Wine Authorities, a "gem of a" retail wine shop. Here the staff shares their thoughts on the world of wine and spread the gospel of estate-grown, family-owned wines from around the world. Please, stop drinking corporate made plonk.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Opening our second location in Raleigh
Raleigh, NC 27604
With construction of our second location about to begin, we have hung a banner above that door to help folks find where we'll be settling in. It's next to the future home of Market Restaurant. Two doors down is Yellow Dog Bread Company, and around the side will be Person Street Neighborhood Bar. Next to us is the Raleigh City Farm, and we're two blocks from the old Krispy Kreme downtown.
To get familiar with our new Mordecai/Oakwood neighborhood we've been studying up on its history. Check out this great story about the unusual pronunciation of Mordecai:
http://raleighpublicrecord.org/opinion/2012/11/19/mordecai-raleighs-founding-neighborhood-with-a-funny-name/
It's Mor-duh-key, not Mor-duh-kai!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Austria 2010, Second Stop: Michlits
Austria 2010, First stop: Netzl
The whole family lives on the estate, Franz & Christine the parents in one part, young newlyweds Christina and her husband in another, and Christina’s younger sister Annemarie in another part. All are connected but have separate entrances. The wines here are well-made and modern (especially the reds), leaning more towards Californian in style. Their less expensive Carnuntina line is unoaked, friendly, accessible and great value (we’ve been selling their “Roseanna” Zweigelt Rosé whch is part of the Carnuntina line), while the upper level wines are rich, noticeably oaked and showy with intense flavor and little semblance to our image of classic, typical European wines. For more about this estate, visit Salamanzar's great post from 2009 here.
- Grand Poobah Wine Swami