 Welcome to the Chapel Hill Wine Company website. In my stores, you’ll find thousands of choices, but this website is devoted to offering you the best – the best values, the best deals, the best wines. What it boils down to is this – I have spent six years building what I think is the best bricks and mortar wine business in the area. We move a ton of wine and get what we want. Now it’s time to use that leverage to get even better wines and even better pricing. These deals are hot, so choices will change DAILY! Make sure you bookmark us on your browser or add to your RSS feed! Now, let's get on with the juice! Todd Wielar, owner |
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 Necessity is the mother of innovation, and in this case led us here at the Wine Co. to one of 2008's great discoveries: Top-notch Spanish Roses for a song!
Every year we look forward to the Southern spring and summertime. Hot as blazes, yes, and having to double-layer sunscreen just to get to the car is kind of a pain, but it's rose time! Even us macho wine guys--and really, what could scream machismo more than fine wine aesthetics?--get to set our inhibitions aside and drink pink.
By the pool, at the beach, on the porch, at the office (what, doesn't everybody drink on the job?), this time of year it's always the right time for some dry rose.
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 I had come up with a long explanation behind this week’s case, relating how I initially worked with statistics for a public policy research group when I graduated college. You know what? It was boring then, and it really isn’t a whole lot more exciting 15 years later… so I’ll spare you. (You’re welcome!)
The bottom line is I recently spent some time slicing and dicing my sales history, looking for trends that would help me forecast what you are looking for. Anyway, one of the more interesting figures from my recent project was the continued growth in Spanish wines. Unlike some other popular wine regions, Spain has successfully avoided being pigeonholed as a one-grape wonder. (ie, Australia / Shiraz and Argentina / Malbec). Apparently, thousands of years as a disparate group of regions and people have paid off in modern society! This diversity is why I keep coming back to their wines – I never stop finding something new and exciting. I guess you feel the same – sales of Spanish wines are up nearly 20% over the past 12 months.
So I hear you… I’d better go out and find some more Spanish wines!
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Andrew Will ‘Sorella’ 2006$58.99 net 95 pts Wine Spectator / 94 pts Wine Advocate “Tight, focused and distinctive, this sharp-edged Washington red shows ripe current, spice, tobacco and coffee flavors that sneak up on you. They start slow, but swirl through the mildly grippy tannins into a long expressive finish, making for a beautifully compact and complex wine. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. 1,326 cases made.” WS |
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$53.99 net 94 pts Wine Advocate / 90 pts Wine Spectator "The 2006 Le Serre Nuove, the estate’s second wine from Ornellaia, will challenge many of the top bottlings in this vintage for years to come. The 2006 is a rich, sumptuous wine bursting with ripe dark fruit, smoke, tobacco, grilled herbs, new leather, minerals and tar. The wine possesses superb density and explosive, utterly irresistible personality. |
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Tomato Festival!
Always one of our most anticipated wine dinners… the Eighth Annual Acme Tomato Festival is just around the corner. July 9th – July 12th, Acme will celebrate all things tomato with a good 600 lbs of the best local, sliced, diced, fried, baked, braised, and grilled selection of heirloom tomatoes that you will find anywhere. And I mean anywhere.
This year we’ve arranged a very special dinner with celebrated Italian winemaker Franco Massolino from the famed Massolino house in Serralunga d’Alba of Barolo fame. We will be drinking his amazing wines with a healthy dose of the best local tomatoes tossed with Acme magic. It will be quite a night. Thursday, July 9th. 6:30 pm. Reservations are required. Price is $65 per person (plus tax and gratuity). This will sell out quickly.
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Sale $44.99 net – compare online at $49-$60 93 pts Wine Advocate / 93 pts Int’l Wine Cellar - In all the buzz over 2007 Rhones, there are bound to be a few lost souls. Wines that didn’t arrive until the first of the 2007s were upon us and are now languishing in the distirbutor’s and importer’s warehouses. What a shame. It’s sad to be forgotten.
But I feel better when prices are slashed! Domaine Charvin always produces one of the silkiest wines from Chateauneuf du Pape, often being compared to a Grand Cru Burgundy. |
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Sale $99.99 net 96 pts Wine Advocate - There are 6,500 cases of the superb 2006 Dominus (91% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Petit Verdot). Its dark plum/purple color is accompanied by aromas and flavors of truffles, forest floor, black cherries, black currants, and Asian spices. One of the finest wines of the vintage, it is complete, full-bodied, and seamlessly built |
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K Vintners Tasting  Friday, June 26th. 5-7 pm. Chapel Hill. FREE! Remember, if the parking lot is jammed, you can park across Homestead in the old Duke Energy lot. We will pop open some of the latest releases from K Vintners. K Vintners is a winery we have been working with for a while, but they have really begun to up the ante with the quality of their products. The recent Wine Advocate reviewed their 2005 Syrahs and blends very highly, rating them 92-97 pts. |
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