There’s a place, in the city where I live, I can walk in, grab a COLD Kikusui Yellow can out of a glass door cooler with a sign on the
top that reads “Sake”?
Inconceivable; the same cooler is also stocked with a
variety of other sakes ranging in style and price but, this is getting
unimaginable there’s not just one but two different bottles of Dassai?! The affordable and knee-knockingly elegant “39”
and the extremely rare- current “holy grail” of sakes the “23” both in stock,
COLD, and ready for purchase!
Pinch me dammit.
Or better yet, go visit the Raleigh Wine Shop for yourself. Share my dream. It’s right down in the heart of Glenwood
South, it’s everything that's awesome about local businesses run by passionate, knowledgeable, and funny/friendly people.
James Voltz and Seth Hoffman will be there to greet you and help
you find what you're looking for, they also offer courses in fine wine education,
and couldn't be nicer gentlemen.
Tis the season, for great food and wine so next time you
need a bottle to make a good impression at your holiday party or perhaps to make a perfect gift stop by
The Raleigh Wine Shop.
But take this advice above all else…
Just
walk in, turn right, open the cooler, and grab a bottle- a COLD bottle of “Otterfest
23”. There are few perfect things in
this world, things that actually overcome and live up to the mountains of hype people
build up in front of them for others to scale.
“Otterfest 23” is a perfect object.
It belongs in the classic Woody Allen monologue from Manhattan; “Why Is Life Worth Living?”:
“Well, why is life worth living? That's a very good
question. Uhm, well, there are certain things I-I guess that make it
worthwhile. Uh, like what? Okay. Uhm, for me, ah, ooh, I would say - what,
Groucho Marx, to name one thing. Uh, uhmm, and Willie Mays, and uhm, uh, the
Second Movement of the Jupiter Symphony. And uhm, Louis Armstrong recording
Potatohead Blues. Uhm, Swedish movies, naturally, Sentimental Education by
Flaubert, uh, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra. Uhm, those incredible apples and
pears by Cézanne. Uh, the crabs at Sam Wo's. Uhm, Tracy's face...”
“Otterfest 23” is Tracy’s face when it comes to sake…
The Raleigh Wine Shop, has become an excellent reason
for a passionate sake drinker’s life to be very much worth living right here
in the capital city of my home state, North Carolina...
The Raleigh Wine Shop
126 Glenwood Avenue
Raleigh, NC 27603
919.803.5473
info@theraleighwineshop.com
-Brad Russell
