Thursday, December 31, 2009

It's time for BUBBLY!

This is one of our absolute favorite sparklers! Get one for tonight's toast, or choose one of a dozen others here at The Wine Studio!

Open til 6 pm!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, ASHEVILLE!!

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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Free Sparkling Wine Tasting, noon-6pm! Here's the line-up:

Come on down to The Wine Studio and get ready to ring in a New Year with 5 of our favorite sparklers!

Dibon Cava, Penedes, Spain - $12

Luna Argenta Prosecco, Veneto, Italy - $12

Sant'Evasio Moscato d'Asti, Piemonte, Italy - $15

Sant'Evasio Brachetto d'Asti, Piemonte, Italy - $17

Perrier-Jouet Champagne, France - $44

(And read on to discover what makes our tastings the most unique!)

The Wine Studio offers free tastings each Saturday from 12-6pm.  While we always announce the theme, the wines themselves are usually tasted blindly, to allow participants to taste and judge the wines on their own merit - and to eliminate the often unconscious bias of “oh, I like that label” or “I don’t like {insert grape name here}”.  It is our goal to create a learning experience with each tasting and to equip you with tools you can use to best describe what you like (and perhaps more importantly, what you don’t like!).  This means we use maps to talk about where the grapes are grown, how the wine is made and the inspiring stories behind its production.  We also have aroma wheels handy so we can begin to describe what we perceive.  The better we can communicate our experience, the more likely we are to find wines we thoroughly enjoy! 

 

So come on down and check us out...we're always happy to pour for you!

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Thursday, December 24, 2009

The Wine Studio is OPEN today from 11-5pm! Need an extra bottle of wine for the dinner table? A last minute gift or stocking stuffer?

Here are some more great reasons to visit!

1. It's the last day to get our teardrop decanter for only 8 bones! Unleaded and dishwasher safe! (normally $10)

2. Chimay giftpacks!

3. Stocking Stuffers! Including the coolest pulltap corkscrews around, wintry pewter bottle stoppers, picnic corkscrews (only a buck fifty and everyone needs one in their glove box!), champagne recorkers and more!

4. Randall Grahm's super cool, hot off the presses, AUTOGRAPHED new book "Been Doon So Long"!

5. The Wine Bible and The World Atlas of Wine!

6. Auld Asheville Vintage Ale - Celebrate Highland Brewing's 15th Anniversary!

We will be closed tomorrow, but will open back up on Saturday, 11-8, with our FREE Wine Tasting running from 12-6. Our theme this week is Sparkling Wines to help ring in the New Year!

Happy Holidays, Asheville!!!

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