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

211 E. Franklin St. Raleigh, NC 27604 With construction of our second location about to begin, we have hung a banner above that door to h...

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Austria 2010, Second Stop: Michlits

One of the visitors asks Werner how many head of cattle he has. Werner says “350”. The visitor asks “Are they for beef or dairy?” Wern...

Austria 2010, First stop: Netzl

One thing I love about visiting small wineries is the fantastic hospitality. A great example is Christine Netzl making a batch of her famil...

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Austria & Germany: My Goals

Leaving for Austria and Germany today, I've been considering my goals for this trip. Certainly I'm looking forward to visiting the ...

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Tasting Notes

Customer Paul has asked about our note taking and how one might fashion notes of their own when tasting wine. Paul said, this would make an...

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Wine Hero

It's not everyday you get to say you met one of your heros, but I did last week at the store. I have spoken with Mr. Patrick Campbell o...

Sunday, August 2, 2009

BLT Awesomeness

Wine Authorities sells a selection of artisanal bacons, which we store in a chest freezer called "Pork Knox" (thanks to Randy for ...

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Who are the Floating Heads?

Grand Poobah Wine Swami and staff: Durham, NC, United States; Just trying to open people's eyes to the facts that: 1) brands are not wineries and most of the wine on the grocery store shelves are made in factories 2) artisan, honest wines can be just as inexpensive as factory produced 3) wine reviews are not fact, they are opinions 4) nearly all mass produced wines have as many ingredients as a Twinkie, while artisan wines are made with just grape juice and yeast 5) not all people who know tons about wine are snobs 6) the status quo for independent wine stores is not good enough in the face of the Big Box Stores

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