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The world is attracted to Mezcal because so much of it is made by hand using pre-industrial methods. And the flavors and aromas tend to reflect the biodiversity of the communities where the spirits are made. And … so many more things. One of those things, though, is the source material used to make the spirits: the agave. There are more than 158 recognized species of agave in Mexico. And that’s just species — each of those species has numerous varietals. And each of those varieties creates different flavors. Join SACRED founder Lou Bank for a tasting of five agave spirits made by the same mezcalero, using the same methods and the same tools, to better understand what different agaves bring to different bottles.

Can’t wait to see you for another Mezcal Class!

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Photo depiction of Emanuel Ramos, of Miahuatlan, Oaxaca.

As the hostas and bulbs come up, so do the new pink wines from 2023. Join us for a night of brand-spanking new roses from around the world.

Kobal Bajta Sparkling Pet Nat Rose

Villa Wolf Rose of Pinot Noir

Belasco de Baquedano Rose of Malbec “Llama”

Rose Blood d'Estoublon Provence

Teutonic Rose of Pinot

Tablas Creek Patelin de Tablas Rose

We had a last-minute chance to sneak in a bonus tasting!

Join us for an absolutely free tasting of 5 Spanish wines. Here’s what’s on deck:

2022 Quinta da Muradella Monterrei Blanco “Candea”

2020 Alegre Valganon Rioja Blanco

2021 Alegre Valganon Rioja Tinto

2021 Bodegas Olivares “Altos de la Hoya” Monastrell Jumilla

2021 Alvaro Palacios Priorat “Les Terrasses”

6-8pm. Free. No reservations needed.

Nestled amongst rolling hills in San Miguel, CA (Paso Robles-way) lies a new winery called High Camp. Husband and wife duo Spencer and Megan are making unique and delicious wines with excellent style and deftnest. We will be tasting a range of their wines tonight, so pop in and get familiar with a new CA winery.

Chardonnay San Luis Obispo

Estate Rose of Grenache

Pinot Noir San Luis Obispo

Reserve Pinot Noir San Luis Obispo

Estate Reserve Red

Petite Sirah/Petit Verdot

We’re celebrating Women’s History Month by featuring women-run and -owned wineries all month. Join us for a culminating tasting night of women-made wines from around the world.

Lucien Albrecht Brut Rose

Livio Felluga Friulano

Duas Quintas Ramos Pinto

Fattoria Pupille Morellino di Scansano

Piatelli Malbec/Tannat

$18/person. No reservations needed.

Irish coffee (noon-4pm), whiskey specials, Guinness & Murphy’s. We’ll have it all and more all day long. Slainte!

As spring quickly approaches, we’d like to whisk you off to Greece for a night. Sip through some fun and fresh natural wines from Greece with MKE’s natural wine distributor, Chromatic.

Denthis Moschofilero

Garalis Terra Ambera

Garalis Limnio

Stilianou Great Mother Amber - Vidiano

Stilianou Great Mother Red - Mandilari

$17/person. No reservation needed.

Starting in March we will be closed on Sundays instead of Mondays…so come by Monday for bottles and drams! We’ll have a specialty cocktail and $6 shot-and-a-beer specials all day.

Also, on Mondays, save 10% on retail bottles of wine featured on our glass pour menu.

Cheers to Mondays!

This week we take a close look at some absolutely fantastic wineries making dynamic and superbly drinkable wines from Rioja and beyond. Spain has long held to traditional, yet rustic winemaking styles; regions and varietals help shape the way wines are made and how they translate to us in the glass. With new fervour for organic and minimal intervention approaches gaining favour among emerging winemakers, new life is being breathed into the profile of classic regions.

Come sip with us and discover new Spain in a bottle…

Salvatge Brut Nature

Vine Roots Garnacha Blanca

Los Corrales Maturana Blanca

Vine Roots Graciano

Los Corrales Maturana Tinta

Los Corrales Maturana Tinta Amphora

$18/person. No reservations needed!

Thelma Carol Wine presents Bubbles Fest Deux - year two of this special February event celebrating all things sparkling wine!

Join us on the 17th of February for a decadent evening of bubbles and bites, featuring 20 pours of sparkling wine from around the world - from Prosecco to Francicorta to Cava, and yes of course, there will be Champagne.

Save your Valentine’s Day plans for the 17th…this will be the winter event to attend!

$70/person includes all pours and lite bites. Online advance tickets are required can can be purchased via Humanatix HERE. 5pm to 8pm.

Full lineup:

Krone Rosé Cuvée Brut 2019

Portlandia Brut Sparkling White

Nicole Chanrion Brut Effervescence

Canella Prosecco Brut DOC "Lido"

Iron Horse Wedding Cuvee 2018

Champagne Gamet Blanc de Noir "Rive Droite"

Champagne Le Brun Servenay Extra Brut "Melodie en C" Grand Cru

Ruggeri Prosecco di Valdobbiadene Superiore Giustino B. Extra Dry 2021

Pinot Pop Brut

Tre Monti Frizzante

Domaine d'Orfeuilles Touraine Rose Brut

Hattingley Valley Classic Reserve

Champagne Michel Mailliard Mont Vergon Premier Cru Brut 2006

Il Colle Prosecco Brut DOCG

Tenuta del Buonamico Gran Cure Particolare Brut Rose

Biutiful Cava

Champagne Marx-Coutelas 2019 Les Barils

Champagne Caillez Lemaire Eclats

Champagne Allez Lemaire Brut Rose

Ya Pensiero Lambrusco

On the heels of our Burns Night Single Malt Scotch tasting, we are returning to our native shores for a sampling of rye whiskies from RY3!

On deck:

100 Proof

Rum Finish

Cigar Series

Madeira Finish

$18/person. No reservations needed!

Join us for a night of foot-stomping live traditional music by Pivari, Milwaukee's premier Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian folk group. The bar will be serving a killer lineup of delicious wines from the Balkans supplied by Triglav Wines.

Advance tickets are $15 via Humanitix here. $20 at the door (quantities limited and determined by advance sales).

Živjeli!

‘O thou, my Muse! guid auld Scotch drink!’

We’re toasting the great Scottish poet, Rabbie Burns, with a special single malt tasting tonight! Join us for a night of poetry, whisky, and more whisky! Plus, handmade shortbread prepared by Chef Melissa Tantillo.

Bruichladdich Islay Barley

Arran Sherry Finish

Ardnamurchan Cask Strength

Glenallachie 4yr Peated

$24/ person. No reservations needed. Slainte!

It’s time for our annual Champagne tasting, just in time to sip and buy for the holidays. This year we are very proud to have the champagne portfolio of Cage Imports on hand, as well as its owner, Garth Hodgdon. Garth is something of a Champagne vanguardist and we are honoured to have his experience, palate, and products at our disposal for this tasting.

Also in attendance will be Jeff Eastman of The Cat’s Particulars, the Milwaukee-based distributor of Garth’s bubbles.

With two highly skilled wine professionals and a bevy of transcendent sparklers at our fingertips, this will be a tasting you will NOT want to miss.

Lineup:

Champagne Labbe, Brut Tradition

Champagne Labbe, Brut Rose

Champagne Marx-Coutelas, Tradition

Champagne Marx-Coutelas, 2019 “Les Barils”

Champagne Caillez Lemaire, “Eclats” Extra-Brut

$22/person. No reservations required.

Introducing Cage Imports with
Garth Hodgdon - Owner of Cage Imports

After more than a decade long sommelier career that included stops as Head Sommelier at Bouchon Bistro, three and a half years as a sommelier at The French Laundry and a year at Per Se in New York, Garth Hodgdon was hired by Champagne Krug as their National Ambassador. For the next five years he traveled the country hosting tastings, dinners and educating the next generation of Champagne lovers. He has spread the word across all 50 states and has been a featured panelist at food and wine festivals across the country including Aspen, Pebble Beach, Hawaii, Los Angeles, TexSom, SommCon and Charleston. Garth has been named "Best New Sommelier" by Wine & Spirits, placed second in the Chaîne de Rotisseurs Young Sommelier Competition, passed the Advanced Exam with the Court of Master Sommeliers, been featured in many national and international publications and spent about 45 seconds onscreen in the documentary "SOMM."

Kick off your Yuletide season with our inaugural Irish Coffee Festival! We’re opening an hour early to host cookies and a you-call-it Irish Coffee Bar.

The first Irish Coffees were made by Chef Joe Sheridan at the restaurant of Foyne’s airport in Limerick, Ireland, when a flight was forced to return due to poor weather. The passengers were made comfortable by Joe’s piping hot coffee spiked with Irish whiskey; the drink was further developed at the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco, where it donned its signature dollop of whipped cream.

Menu (subject to change):

The Sheridan - Fresh coffee, Writer’s Tears, freshly whipped cream, Demerara sugar

The Nutty Professor - Fresh coffee, Writer’s Tears, Amaretto/Frangelico/black walnut blend, freshly whipped cream

The Baja - Fresh coffee, anejo tequila, Mexican hot-chocolate syrup, inferno bitters, whipped cream, orange tequila mist

The Peppermint Paddy - Iced coffee, peppermint-stick infused Writer’s Tears, whipped cream, frozen Rumple Minz shooter

No charge for entry, drink prices range from $12-16.

Amari, aperitivi, liqueurs, and spirits! This will be a full-blown tasting extravaganza with small-production importer, Oliver McCrum and Milwaukee’s natural wine distributor, Chromatic Wine.

$16/person. No reservations needed!

Join us a for a special tasting of Pinot Noirs from Wayfarer Vineyards. This will be an intimate library (2013 & 2014 vintages) tasting of high-end single vineyard offerings from one of the finest Pinot producers in California.

Tickets are $50 and are available here. When you bundle (here) a ticket for our Noir Soir Tasting on Nov 4, you save $20 on this Followup.

Join us for our last large scale tasting of the year, Noir Soir. Pinot Noir, the elegant, finessed, Queen of cooler climates is the star of the evening.

This will be a gorgeous offering, featuring 18 different Pinot pours from around the world; from Burgundy to Australia to Oregon, and beyond.

Tickets are $80/person, available here. Entry includes small bites and 18 pours at 3 tasting stations.

Full list coming soon…

Join us for a delightfully tasty tasting with Luc Cowley, winemaker for Auntsfield. I have no reservations in sharing that Auntsfield is my favourite New Zealand Sauvignon blanc, and I feel that after a single sip you’ll concur. But the winery offers more than just top notch SB…

Full lineup coming soon!

Tonight we explore some of the most interesting and delicious quality bottlings from Greece. Things are changing for Greek wine; they have been for some time, and thankfully our access to these amazing wines in the midwest is more robust than ever. Familiarize yourself with the grapes, the regions, and the profiles as we taste and learn.

Domaine Glinavos Protos Inos Zitsa

Troupis Rose “Thunder” 1L

Domaine Zafeirakis Limniona

Domaine Glinavos Vlahiko

Tatsis Goumenissa

$17/person. No reservations needed.

Create your very own charcuterie board with Charcuter-Me here at Thelma Carol!

During this hands-on workshop, we will guide you step-by-step on how to create a charcuterie board, chat about what pairs well with the cheeses, give tips and tricks, and save time for question/answer sessions throughout the event. Your ticket includes everything to make your very own board, as well as a greeting glass.

By the end of the event you will have created a beautiful board to show off, and you will learn a life skill that will transform you into the best host!

$70/person. Tickets here.

Join us for a very special tasting of French wines and Cognacs with importer Michael Corso. This is the first of many Special Series Tastings designed to add a few more opportunities to taste as we near the holiday season.

Gautier Vouvray sec

Domaine de Chamfort Rose

Le Grand Ballon Gamay

Domaine de Chamfort Vacqueyras

Gautier Vouvray sec

Chinon Clos du Sautes

Cognac A.E. Dor VS, VSOP, XO, Napoleon

$16/person. No reservations needed.