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The Local: Wine & Beer, The Local: Wine & Beer, 961 US Route 2, Middlesex, VT (2025)

07/31/2025

We’ve all come a long way from thinking of pink wines as “Kool Aid with a kick” back in the day! The world has become very enamored by the charm of rose wine. Beautiful to look at with its range of pale to bold color, its rich heritage & diverse styles, rose has exploded in popularity with no signs of slowing down. Pink wine has certainly captivated global palettes recently.

Rose wines can be crafted from a wide range of red grape varieties, & unlike red wines where the grape skins are left in contact with the juice for an extended period, or white wines where the grape skins are quickly separated (unless they’re making orange wine!) -– rose wines strike a perfect balance creating the best of both worlds!

Stop by this Friday, August 1st from 4:30-6:30 at The Local & Saturday, August 2nd from 10:30-3 at , when we’ll kick off August with an array of truly eclectic rose wines from different countries, different varietals, different vinification methods, but all with palette popping flavors! Think & Drink Pink!

-- Jack

07/31/2025

Something new again? Already? Yes!

It’s the SATURDAY SANDWICH from & !

We’ll be offering up some sandwiches from MBD (NBD!) every week for pick up anytime after 11:30am on Saturday. These are by PRE-ORDER ONLY and that pre-order window closes at noon on Friday. I’ll do my best to get this email order form out every Tuesday so you have plenty of time to pick your sandwich.

Then just mosey into the shop on Saturday after 11:30am, grab your already paid for, freshly made, hyper delicious sandwich, and get on with your day! Or grab a bottle of wine to go with it. Or hang out on the porch & have a draft beer from Hill Farmstead. So many options & they are all the best!

So go ahead and place that order today. And just reply to this email if you have any questions! Links are in the bio!

I hope you guys all enjoy this new option!

-- Sam

07/31/2025

I don't do "sales" here at The Local because we just take our cost from our distributors, add our standard markup so I can pay the rent & my team, and, boom, that's the price you pay.

However, sometimes, for very boring reasons, our distributors put things on sale. And sometimes those sale prices are absolutely INSANE. And that allows me to pass along these COMPLETELY CRAZY PRICES to all of you!

So today I am presenting not one, not two, not three, BUT FOUR DIFFERENT BOTTLES AT JUST LUDICROUS PRICING! We have Italian magnums that normally sell for $150 each in the shop now for JUST $45! We have my favorite Italian Chardonnay marked down from $45 to $23/btl! And, THIS ONE IS JUST FLAT OUT CERTIFIABLE, we have a California sparkling Chenin Blanc sliced down from $30 to JUST TWELVE DOLLARS A BOTTLE!

There are only two magnums each & I'm keeping them in the back so just ask if they are still available. There are around 6 bottles of the Chardonnay and like 25 bottles of the Chenin. So order online now or swing by the shop soon!

-- Sam

07/24/2025

Whenever people sign up to receive emails from the shop, I send them a discount code as a thank you because BELIEVE ME I know we all get too many junk emails from nonsense brands about things we don’t care about. And I’m trying my hardest for this to not be that, but I also think giving people 20% off an online purchase is a nice incentive to stick with me.

So if you are just following the shop here, but don't get emails, go ahead and sign up & you'll receive that discount code. That's fun & free. But there is another benefit too...

A THING YOU MAY NOT KNOW -- if you go to my website (thelocalvt.com...and link in bio, obvs) & create an account with your email address, you should be able to see a record of everything you’ve ever ordered from the shop. It’s way easier than taking pictures of labels then scrolling through hundreds of photos of your family, dog, vacation, etc. in front of me in the shop trying to find that label photo. Ask me how I know...

So sign up today, create that account and get 20% off your first online order which will be ready to pick up in the shop whenever you’re ready to swing by the shop or shipped right to your door if you're lucky enough to live in a state I'm allowed to ship to!

Thanks again!

-- Sam

07/24/2025

“La vie est trop courte pour boire du mauvais vin.”
Life is too short to drink bad wine
-- French Proverb

“Dove regna il vino non regna il silenzio.”
Where wine reigns, silence does not.
-- Italian Proverb

France & Italy have a rich and storied history in wine making. As such, they are regarded by many as the world’s premier producers. Italy produces more wine than any other country with France a close second. Their unique terroir defines the personality of their wines along with climate & geography being crucial in shaping their distinctive styles.

Wines from France are traditional & controlled with great balance and an earthiness reflecting their terroirs. Wines from Italy tend to be more vibrant, fruit forward, & designed for food, given their predominantly dry & sunny climate producing riper fruit. Italian reds also have that distinctive signature “bite” that identifies the wine as quintessential Italy. There’s no question that these two countries both make unique, complex, and totally delicious wines.

Join us this Friday, July 25th from 4:30-6:30 at The Local, or Saturday, July 26th from 10:30-3 at 5th Quarter, when we’ll celebrate these iconic countries with some truly amazing red blends from legendary regions like Bordeaux & the Piedmont and hidden gems from Corsica & the Alto Adige. We have 5 wines with a total of 15 different varietals being used. It is all about the blends!

-- Jack

07/24/2025

I discovered the free Friday & Sunday concerts back at because of . Everything Red Hen makes is great, so when I heard from a friend of a friend that they ran a wood fired pizza oven back at Camp Meade on Friday evenings, I knew I needed to get there & get some pizza.

That pizza was great, as expected, but what I didn't expect was to find an amazing community of people all hanging out back there on the green. Sure, some of them came for the music. Others came for the food & drink. But a lot of them just came because Camp Meade is such a wonderful place to pass the time.

My son was three when we first started attending Camp Meade events and it was amazing to have a large, but enclosed space where he could play on the playground, meet new friends, and my wife & I could keep an eye on him, but also let him explore. And now that he's older, it's become a space where we know he'll always find a friend & we'll run into friends & neighbors too.

Anywho, I love Camp Meade & what it provides for everyone -- one of those "third spaces" where people can just gather & run into friends & catch up & sure, buy a drink or two from my bar & listen to some great tunes. And I hope to see you back there soon!

-- Sam

07/17/2025

Besides being like, "hey, join the Wine Club," I'm realizing I don't often post about what our Wine Club members are actually receiving each month. So here's that post plus a VERY SPECIAL OFFER!

This month our Wine Club members are receiving a 100% Weissburgunder (aka Pinot Blanc) from Carnuntum, Austria, my personal favorite Sancerre (100% Sauvignon Blanc), Derek's new favorite rosé, plus a heck of a value & very chillable Tempranillo from Castilla, Spain. Demi Wine Club members receive both the Sancerre & the rosé. That's a $115 & $62 retail value respectively that they get for just $100 & $50.

And I can't always do this due to availability, but if you'd like to take advantage of that value, just message me here & I'll get some bottles set aside for you too. It's like being in the Wine Club except you get to pick & choose your months (happy face) but you don't get the everyday 5% & 10% discounts (sad face). Yay for wine!

-- Sam

07/17/2025

It's been very hot outside. I don't like it. But I'm all about silver linings, so here's one -- hot weather makes cold beers taste even better. And lagers are the best cold beers for hot days. That's just, as the kids say (I think), facts. 100 emoji. Anywho, these we have like a billion lagers in the shop right now and these are some of my favorites. Plus we have new ones arriving today (I hope!) from , , and ! That's cool, I mean, cold.

-- Sam

07/17/2025

We love tasting wine. Our excitement & curiosity for learning about & appreciating wine & passing our enthusiasm to you is so gratifying for us! We so appreciate your adventurous spirit & willingness to try the spectrum of wines that we’re anxious for you to try! The team here at The Local decided to pick some of our recent personal favorites without any particular criteria -- just pick a wine that we like!

Not surprisingly, the collective selection we chose is so emblematic of what The Local is all about. There are iconic winemakers, old wine making techniques enjoying a contemporary revival, obscure indigenous grapes along with iconic varietals, under the radar regions & legendary viticultural areas.

Join us this Friday, July 18th from 4:30-6:30 at The Local & Saturday, July 19th from 10:30-3 at , to sample some of the team’s summer favorites! Hopefully some of them will become your favorites too!

-- Jack

07/09/2025

In these next three weeks, the 112th edition of the Tour de France will be spinning its way throughout France. 184 world class cyclists from 23 teams will compete in this grueling superhuman event!

The Tour is also a celebration of France’s unique terroir. Each region that the race passes through is steeped in history, beautiful landscape, culinary culture, & wine!

The course for this year’s tour runs counter clockwise around France, so we’ll follow the peloton in the same direction & feature wines from the Loire, Languedoc, Minervois, Provence, & the Savoie -- a few of the regions that this elite peddlepalooza passes through!

So join us this Friday, July 11th from 4:30-6:30 at The Local & 10:30-3 on July 12th at 5th Quarter in Waitsfield for a very leisurely cruise through some of France’s iconic wine regions!

-- Jack

07/09/2025

ON SALE SATURDAY, JULY 12th @ NOON!

How do you take what is already a great evening in The Tasting Room & make it truly special?

We've hosted in The Tasting Room twice before, and each time the conversation about the cheese making process, learning about how pairings were chosen, then exploring how the wines & cheeses interact have been crowd favorites. But this year we've called in a ringer to select & present the pairings -- Vermont's own Master Sommelier !

If you don't know David, here's a brief bit of background -- besides being one of only 279 Master Sommeliers in the world, he's also a Juilliard trained opera singer & now operates his own vineyard here in Vermont making wines under the label. More importantly, he also has two extremely cute sheep dogs*.

Mark your calendars so you don't miss out on this perfect pairing! On Sale Saturday, July 12th @ noon! And a few tickets are still available now for Wine Club Members (join today!)!

-- Sam

*Sorry, but the dogs won't be attending.

07/09/2025

It's been so much fun seeing you all enjoying drinks on the porch over the last couple of weeks! Thanks to everyone who's come out to give it a shot! This weekend, we have an updated draft list (Hill Farmstead & The Veil!!!) plus some live bluegrass from 3-5ish on Saturday! Come hang out! It's the easiest thing to do.

And for those of you trying to figure out when Porch Drinks are available, that's on me. Here's an easy way to know -- if the shop is open, porch drinks are available!

-- Sam

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