YOWZA! TASTING BONANZA! AT! WINE SOURCE!
Wednesday May 13th a day time tasting with Redwood Empire Master Blender, Lauren Patz 1PM-3PM 🥃
Thursday, May 14th—Cher! Help Us All! We’ve got F O U R tastings between 4PM-7PM Whiskey x 2 Old Line & SilverThorne🥃 Rosé Wines by Z wines 🍷 and Monument Brewery 🍻
Friday, May 15th 4PM-6PM 🧑🧑🧒🧒Family Friendly🧑🧒🧒
Wine Team Member, Jorel puts on a fun tasting!
Saturday, May 16th, 2PM-4PM
Wine Team Member, Abigail puts on a fun tasting! 🍷
Thursday, May 21st, 5PM -7PM
Flavored Fun Vodka from Rocktown Distillery
Friday, May 22nd, 4PM-7PM Double Trouble!
Judgement of Paris Wines 🍷
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Mexican Spirits by Viamundi 🍹
Saturday, May 23rd, 4PM-6PM
Violet’s Paradise by Brenae Royal 🍷
Wednesday, May 27th, 4PM-6PM
Gray Wolf Spirits—DMV Local Distillery!
Thursday May 28th 4PM-7PM
Massanois Wines 🍷
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G4 Tequilas 🌺
Friday, May 29th, 4PM-7PM
Old Line Spirits—Baltimore Loval Distillery! 🥃
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If you enjoyed (or missed 🥲) our Mint Juleps last Saturday, ✨Join us tomorrow, Saturday, May 9th—starting at 2pm we’ll feature a cocktail at our bar 🥃 ((Yes! We have a bar)) This weeks libation is a riff on a Black Manhattan! 💥Come learn what that means! Sip! Enjoy! $6 🫧
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🦋🦋BUTTERFLY WEEK MAY 3rd -MAY 10th🦋🦋
Families should be together on Mother’s Day! 💐
Wine Source is one of many Baltimore businesses participating in Butterfly Week to show our solidarity and support our immigrant community.
What’s Butterfly Week? 🦋
Butterfly Week, is a week-long (May 3rd - May 10th) fundraiser in honor of Mother’s Day to raise money for the Butterfly Fund.
What’s the Butterfly Fund?🦋
The Butterfly Fund is a verified autonomous fundraising initiative specifically for local impacted immigrant families & individuals in Baltimore. This fund allows for easy direct donations to families’ fundraisers.
Look for items with a Butterfly 🦋 like Dolly Parton’s Butterfly Chardonnay and Checkerspot’s beer Butterfly Kisses to participate! A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Butterfly fund 🦋
Worker Owner Model Paul!
Our next collaboration with @oldwestminsterwinery is in the works! We were thrilled to get to sit down with their immensely talented winemaker, @lisahintonn , and sommelier & sales manager extraordinaire @yobro_itsjoe to select the blend for our first ever white wine collaboration. We couldn't be more happy with the result and can hardly wait for it to release! The wine needs to rest a little longer before bottling, so stay tuned for more details to come.
Photos & words by Wine Team Member, Andrew!
TASTINGS AT THE SOURCE!
Thursday, April 16th, 4PM-7PM
A surprise line up of wines from Well Crafted Beverage’s book! 🍷
Friday, April 17th, 5PM-7PM
Two Italian wine producers with Jason from Break Thru Bev pouring!🍷
Scarpetta, born from a passion for creating wines from Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giuli and honors the culture of good food, good, wine, & good conversation.
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Benvenusa, all of their producers farm less than 10 hectares of vineyards, harvest by hand, and are driven by an earnest desire to make serious, compelling wines.
Saturday, April 18th, 2PM-4PM
Our Wine Team pours Dan Z’s Rosé wine selections! 🍷
Thursday, April 23rd, 5PM-7PM
Surprise spirits from High Road’s book🥃
Friday, April 24th, 5PM-7PM
Château de Saint Cosme is the leading estate of Gigondas and produces the appellation’s benchmark wines. Wine has been produced on the site of Saint Cosme since Roman times, evident by the ancient Gallo-Roman vats carved into the limestone below the château. Andy of Winebow pouring! 🍷
Saturday, April 25th, 2PM-4PM
Our Wine Team pours Gloria’s Orange wine selections 🍷
Thursday, April 30th, DOUBLE TASTING!
4PM-7PM: Social Hour, ready-to-drink canned cocktails with Tom, the founder, pouring! 🍹
5PM-7PM: Hognose Distillery, Maryland locals, release their new spirit flavor modeled after the Baltimore Classic Lemon Stick 🍋
Always Free, Always Fun!!!
Hola! I’m Gloria and this is one of my favorite meals to take home from The Wine Source.
On Wednesday nights, I play in a competitive pinball league at Holy Frijoles so I like to load up on carbs beforehand 🥖 🍝 I took home the Bird Seed loaf from Ovenbird to dip in the Ya Albi Evoo 🫒 And yesss I absolutely bought this olive oil for the bottle—sue me!
I wanted to use a more substantial bread—the Bird Seed Loaf is made with Rye/Bread Flour, Oats, Flax, Sesame, and Sunflower seeds—i found it paired nicely with the unfiltered, cold-pressed olive oil.
The oil is so good on its own, I could drink it! 🍸
Because I’m a flavor glutton, I added spices to the olive oil and I’m so glad I did because they bloomed beautifully in this oil (& shined in my saucer by Baltimore local Milkweed Ceramics!) 🦋
Since this meal, I’ve had a few friends over and having this olive oil on hand as a quick snack dipper has proven this bottle to be worthy of its price tag💸💸
My boyfriend and I loaded up on bread while the pasta water boiled. One of our earliest dates, before I worked at Wine Source, we made a tomato sauce from scratch (Thanks Viv for that forever recipe!) and used this same Poschiavo Spaghetti by Molino e Pastifico. We both loved the nutty character and freshness of these long (16in.) noodles and keep coming back to it when we crave pasta.
Once boiling, I salted the pot and added the spaghetti. 15 minutes later, I drained the water, but left a little bit of pasta water to mix with the Michaels of Brooklyn Vodka sauce. Michaels of Brooklyn has been around since 1964 and to this day they small batch all of their sauces inside the original kitchen. Although there’s already parmesan in the sauce, 🧀 I grated more to sprinkle on top, plus black pepper and some more of that Ya Albi olive oil. Everything came together in ~30mins! 🍝
We ate in front of an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm—but I had to mute because Larry David was rapid firing the F Bomb 💣
Find in our Gourmet Section!
Ovenbird Bakery Bird Seed Loaf: $9.99
Ya Albi EVOO: $69.99
Poschiavo Spaghetti: $14.99
Michaels of Brooklyn Vodka Sauce: $11.99
Parmigiano Reggiano: $24.99/lb (cut to order!)
🦩 FLAMINGO FEST VENDOR SPOTLIGHT 🦩 @thewinesource is Baltimore's top destination for fine wine, beer, spirits, and specialty foods. As an independently-owned shop twenty years in the making, their unwavering commitment to quality, selection, and customer service has made them a favorite in the Hampden area and beyond. Their team is dedicated to providing a curated selection and expert advice while remaining a welcoming, neighborhood spot.
Visit their booth at Flamingo Fest on April 16 to sample some staff picks from their vast selection! Tap the link in bio to RSVP for free. 🦩🪩
🌟 RSVP does not guarantee admittance. Guest list will be confirmed one week in advance. All guests must be 21+ with an updated Yelp profile to attend.
📍The Wine Source
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YES, WE ARE OPEN TOMORROW SUNDAY APRIL 5TH! STOP BY ANY TIME BETWEEN 9AM-8PM FOR ALL YOUR BEVERAGE AND SNACK WANTS NEEDS DREAMS DESIRES LOVE AND HAPPINESS 💗🐰☀️🌷💗🐰☀️🌷💗🐰☀️🌷💗🐰☀️🌷💗🐰☀️🌷💗🐰☀️🌷💗🐰☀️🌷💗🐰
Happy World Cheese Day!!!
Showcasing the True Emmentaler!
Pasteurized cow’s milk, 31.99lb
The name “Emmentaler” originally designated a cheese from the Emmental region of Switzerland, but more commonly known as “Swiss.” Cheese from the Emmental dates back to the thirteenth century, but was first mentioned by name in 1542 around the same time commercial cheese making emerged. The most copied cheese in the world, fake Emmentaler was produced by Germany, France, Italy, Finland, and Russia starting in 1914, finally received its protected denomination of origin in 2004.
Modeled by our cheesemonger James
Words by fellow cheesemonger Dylan
