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March Wine Tasting Events

Andy Woolgar of Elephant's Corner Wines returns to Nautical Wheelers, bringing with him a taste of South African wines!  Join Nautical Wheelers and Andy on Friday, March 4th in New Bern from 5-7pm and on Saturday, March 5th in Oriental at 2 & 3pm. Those of you who have met and tasted with Andy in the past, can attest that his passion, knowledge and appreciation of South African wines is infectious!  Andy will be focusing on appropriate food pairings with the wines that we will be tasting.  For those of you joining Andy for the first time, you will not be disappointed!  Here's a sneak peek of the wines you can look forward to enjoying: White Squirrel. SAUVIGNON BLANC, Coastal...

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Wine Tasting with Chris Izzo

As the summer heat continues to go up, we were excited to have the opportunity to host another wine tasting. This past weekend, July 16th and 17th, we were honored to have Chris Izzo from Johnson Brothers Mutual Wine Distributors come to both of our stores. We had tons of familiar faces join our tasting and a few new ones that we were happy to introduce to our Nautical Wheelers community. Chris was able to bring six different wines for us to try. The six were... Avissi Sparkling Rose from Veneto, Italy Ziata Sauvignon Blanc from Napa Valley, CA McBride Sisters Chardonnay from California San Polo Rubio Toscana from Tuscany, Italy Bodegas Muriel Reserva from Rioja, Spain Girard Cabernet Sauvignon 2018...

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Uncorked Wine Tasting June 25th & 26th with Elephants Corner South African Wines

Wine Tastings are not all glamor and and stemware. It took a lot of work to make these 9000 bottles of South African Wine that arrived in North Carolina and then bring them all the way to Nautical Wheelers in New Bern and Oriental for Wine Tastings on June 25 and 26th with Andy Woolgar of Elephants Corner Wines Andy has tasted with us before and returns to Oriental and New Bern and introduces South African wines from Elephants Corner Wines . These wines are new to the USA, the first shipment arrived earlier this year and sold out before Andy could bring them to Eastern NC, yes the wine is that good. We were happy so many could join us and...

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