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Wine Wall Street
Our Early Winter Wine Sale is now in progress – November 10-25. Hard to believe it’s been six months since the Spring Sale – where did that time go???
For the next two weeks, you can save 15% on any combination of 12 or more bottles 750 ML size bottles, or 10% on 6-11 bottles. With the upcoming holidays and aforementioned upcoming winter, this is the perfect time to stock your cellar (or shelves).
Main Street Market carries over 1500 labels, in a wide range of prices, countries and varietals. Try some new wines – or stock up on tried and true favorites.
Bogle Essential Red
Bogle is a very well-known wine label and has been a consistent source of good and reasonably priced wines for many years. They just came out with a new blend (blends are all the rage now) – Bogle Essential Red. It’s regular retail price is a bargain at $11.99 – but Main Street Market has 23 bottles left at this intro price of $9.99 – limit 2 bottles per customer!
Those 23 bottles will probably be gone very soon!
Main Street Market's Wine Department
It is spring! And the eagerly awaited Main Street Market Early Spring Wine Sale starts Saturday May 5! For the next 15 days, wine lovers can stock up on their favorites and save some money.
If you buy 12 or more bottles, you will get a 15% discount. The purchase of 6-11 bottles gets you 10% off. We encourage you to mix and match, but of course, you can choose whatever you want!
From Main Street Market’s Sam Northrop:
When is a beer more than a beer? When it’s a Samuel Adams Utopias® brew. Here’s what CaptainsBeerBlog has to say about Utopias®:
Sam Adams Utopias isn’t really a beer…it’s an experience.
Offered in extraordinarily limited quantities once every two years (there were only 53 barrels produced for this year’s version), Utopias is considered to be one of the tougher beers out there to get your hands on, and for good reason, taking into account the intensely laborious, time-consuming process Boston Beer Co.’s brewers take to produce this innovative brew. In its fifth release, Utopias has traditionally contended with such beers as Dogfish Head’s 120 Minute IPA as the most alcoholic beer on planet earth*, coming in at a mere 27% ABV. But the strength of the beer, while certainly unique and more reminiscent to what you’d find in a fine liquer, is not all that sets it apart in my mind.
Main Street Market is excited to announce that we have ONE container of this limited edition fine brew available for sale at our Egg Harbor store. Let me tempt you with some of the details:
Sweet fire, with a rich malt and wood complexity. 
Truly the epitome of brewing’s two thousand year evolution, Samuel Adams Utopias® offers a flavor not just unlike any other beer but unlike any other beverage in the world. The 2011 release is a blend of batches, some having been aged up to 16 years in the barrel room of our Boston Brewery, in a variety of woods. We aged a portion of the beer in hand-selected, single-use bourbon casks from the award-winning Buffalo Trace Distillery. The latest batch also spent time in Portuguese muscatel finishing casks, as well as sherry, brandy and Cognac casks. This flavorful, slightly fruity brew has a sweet, malty flavor that is reminiscent of a deep, rich vintage port, fine cognac or aged sherry.
Flavor: A unique flavor of vintage port, old sherry and fine cognac. Layers of dark fruit, wood and vanilla.

Color: Ruby black
Original Gravity: 40° Plato
Alcohol by Vol/Wt: 27% ABV – 21.31%ABW
Calories per recommended 2 oz serving: 107
Malt Varieties: Two-row pale Harrington and Metcalfe, Caramel 60, Munich
Hop Variety: Hallertau Mittelfruh, Spalt and Tettnager
Yeast Strain: Two Samuel Adams yeasts
Availability: Limited release First Brewed: 2002
Main Street Market has ONE bottle of the 2011 brew available for sale – $500
Interested? Call Main Street Market at 920-868-2120 and ask for Sam. Or email kaaren@doorcountygrocery.com
Wine Wall Street
Last week I told you about the many wine tastings we’ve been to this month. It may sound glamorous, but it really was a lot of work! My notes were definitely more legible in the first hour or two – but I’ve been to enough of these – I know how to be selective. Like I said, somebody has to do it!
The tastings are a precursor to our Annual Spring Wine Sale. We have two “Big Sales” a year – spring and fall. After a long hard winter, it is now time to stock up for the summer season ahead. We always give 10% off any 12 bottles; for our sales, we give you 15% off any 12+bottles and 10% any 6-11 bottles. Wine gets better with a little age, so stocking up is an advantage! Besides, it’s nice to have some good wines on hand for any impromptu gatherings you may have in the next few months.
We encourage you to try some of the new wines we’ve added. It is not unusual to go back to familiar brands, but there is so much good wine in the world – try something new! We’ve tasted just about every wine we sell at one time or another; we can offer advice or recommend our favorites. I think it is much more interesting to serve a variety of wines for dinner or parties – it gives you an opportunity to experiment with foods and different varietals.
So – get a cart and fill it with bottles! We will box it up for you and take it to your car. There is good wine at every price – and at 15% off – you can splurge a little!
