Category: Featured Wine

Early Fall Wine Recommendations

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La Foulee des ZinZins

La Foulée des ZinZins – A great wine for cool evenings, but not quite conceding to cold. The Foulée des ZinZins is an energetic, elegant, fun expression of 100% Grenache from 30-70 year old vines in the Cote du Rhone region. Because it is 100% Grenache, it does not qualify for the Cotes du Rhone AOC. Husband and wife team, Agnes and Philippe Badea, farm their four hectares of vines organically, with biodynamic practices. After years of working for other wineries, they started this project in 2010, despite family and friends calling them “zinzin” (goofy, crazy, crackpot).

Spring Is Here – Some Wines To Try

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Windham Wines Tasting

The hummers are back, rhododendrons and azaleas are in bloom, Walker Farm has opened and the Brattleboro Farmers’ Market is underway. Perhaps most importantly to those of us here for it, mud season 2019 has ended. Spring has reluctantly, but finally, arrived in southern Vermont.At Windham Wines, that means that our collection of wines is shifting to more whites and rosés than reds. The rosé rack offers many choices, at least twenty at last count, from France, Austria, the US, Italy and Argentina so far. New rosés arrive regularly. This week, we expect another few from France, the US and one from Lebanon. Please come in to begin exploring for your favorite rosé for summer 2019.

Windham Wines Newsletter: Wines for Spring 2018

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Spring Wines

As you can see from the images above, spring has finally sprung. Two weeks ago, with a day around 80 and another in the low 70s, the trees got the message and sent out little green buds which last week unfurled. We have reasserted the “green” in the Green Mountain state. And, . . . the hummers are back! Did anyone say rosé? We did. Speaking of weather and rosés, we have our final tasting of the fall-winter-spring 2017-2018 tasting season on June 2nd– rosés.

Easter Wine Recommendations

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Spring Daffodils

Stop in to Windham Wines for all your Easter wine needs.  Need help choosing a wine to go with your Easter dinner?  Here are a few recommendations that our tasting team really liked. Avinyo, Petillant Vi D’Agulla, $14.99 practicing organic Lightly sparkling, light bodied and low alcohol (but dry), provide a perfect glass to begin […]

Wine Clubs now available

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Responding to customer requests, Windham Wines is now offering wine clubs for the wine curious. For $60 per installment, those who join would receive 2-3 bottles every other month starting in February. We provide notes giving you the stories of people and place as well as suggesting food pairings. We offer two clubs, one for […]

Wine Clubs, New Wines and More Tastings at Windham Wines

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Hillside Vineyard

At Windham Wines and at home, we are celebrating having made it through the longest month of the year– January. It is longer than any other month, isn’t it? It is, at least, darkest. We have turned that corner. Winter is officially more than half over (though not really in Vermont) and importantly, days are […]

Mas des Chimères, “Oeillade,” Vin de Pays, Coteaux de Salagou, 2015– $15.99 (organic)

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Our customers have discovered Cinsault. Two of the most popular red wines that leave the shop in consistent volume are this wine, the Mas de Chimeres, “Oeillade,” and the L’Argentier, Cinsault. We love them both. The Mas de Chimeres is another independent, family-owned small domain. The mas is worked full-time by just 4 people– the […]