Missy just reading my Charleston(SC) Magazine & insert for the soon to be wine & food festival next weekend...ad for The Palm, a new rose' by Whispering Angel got a 1/2 page ad. Palm fronds on the label & neck ring. You know who owns the brand ?Whispering Angel is widely available in Austin, Texas! Thank, God!!! :up:
Bouchard Beaujolais Nouveau have enjoyed on SBH, occassionally can find in our part of SC at the right time ! and last couple years has been Joseph Drouhin bn even better !
Thanks Jeanette but I don’t need a French dictionary to buy wine. It’s whatever tastes good. Except for some roses it normally is not a French wine.
IMO Total wine is much better than all of them (disclaimer - I don't know Suburban). I use it as my price checker because I know their prices are really good and the store is like the size of a home depot. You can fit the entire Varmax store in Total Wines California red section alone. I don't usually need help at wine stores but there is a particular guy with glasses at total wine that I find good. He knows his Bordeaux's which is something I do have questions on. I never heard about them owning 51% of the wines they sell and find that very hard to believe based on the number of wines they sell, but if that is even close to true it must be the cheap wines. They have a great selection of higher end wines and of popular wines and in general their prices blow Varmax and others away. If you are from the area and like high end wine get on Rye Brook Wines mailing list. Store is small and nothing special and about as expensive as Varmax, but you can order online and go pick up wines that they run specials on and find some great deals. The specials can at times show up on wine searcher as the lowest in the Country and certainly the area.
