Holiday Hours and New Year’s Vacation

Posted by josh on Dec 24, 2011 in Blog, General | 0 comments We’d hate for you to make a trip to the store, only to find it closed, so please read this carefully. For Christmas week-end, we will close at  5:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve and will be closed both Christmas Day and December 26. We will reopen at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, December 26. For New Year’s week-end, we will maintain regular hours, closing at 6:00 p.m. on New Year’s Eve.  The...
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Great Gift Ideas, Table Wine Style

Posted by josh on Dec 14, 2011 in Blog, General | 0 comments Are you all ready stressing about what to buy your oenophile friend or family member for Christmas? Stop fretting, as we’ve got a few great ideas for you.  We don’t stock much in the way of lavish wine accessories, but we do offer many options and we can be creative.  Take a look at some of our best gift ideas. 1. Personalized Wine Gifts – Buy them a themed case or even just a...
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Holiday Wine Buying Tips

Posted by josh on Dec 1, 2011 in Blog, General | 0 comments With this being the busiest selling time of the year for most wine merchants, it’s a guarantee that many wines will sell out on any given day, even though we think we are amply stocked.  We’d hate for you to stop by the store only to have your favorite wine empty on the shelf – follow these simple rules to make sure you’re drinking what you want to be drinking this...
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What’s Josh Drinking?

Posted by josh on Nov 7, 2011 in Blog, General | 0 comments I’ve been hard at work “testing the product” here at the Table Wine Command Center recently.  I spend countless hours each week researching various blogs and periodicals as well as communicating with my wine friends who live all over the country to make sure that we keep the store stocked with the finest wines offered in North Carolina.  Here are some that have perked my...
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Wine Buying Tips For Tough Economic Times

Posted by josh on Aug 11, 2011 in Blog, General | 0 comments The year was 1998, and I had just started working at a small wine shop in the mountains of Colorado while I was enjoying my post-college sabbatical, aka finding myself. It was the late 90’s, the economy was robust and people were buying expensive wines, expensive cigars and other expensive “stuff”. Fast forward to 2011 and the situation couldn’t be more different – the affluence of the...
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Wine Tasting Etiquette

Posted by josh on Jul 26, 2011 in Blog, Events, General | 0 comments This is my latest column in The Laurel of Asheville, and I hope that those who read it find humor in it.  In a nutshell, if you want to avoid looking like this guy at one of the many great free wine tastings in Asheville,  just follow these few simple rules. I’m a firm believer that one of the best ways to learn about wine is to taste it, and Asheville is rampant with free wine tastings...
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