The Red Wagon Shoppe - Rochester Location

The Red Wagon Shoppe - Rochester Location One of Michigan's premier beverage destinations, since 1965.

Going down tomorrow! What’s So Great About Alsace?France’s Alsace region is a bit of an oddity. Having changed hands bet...
06/27/2025

Going down tomorrow! What’s So Great About Alsace?

France’s Alsace region is a bit of an oddity. Having changed hands between this country and Germany many times over the past couple hundred years has engrained a rich and unique tradition here, which invariably has created a rich food and wine culture as well. For this tasting we are going to explore a slew of wines from this beguiling area, and we are inviting you to come along with us!

Here is what the planned lineup is:

Kuentz-Bas Blanc 2023
Domaine Weinbach ‘Cuvee Theo’ Riesling 2021
Josmeyer ‘Fromenteau’ Pinot Gris 2019
Domaine Zind-Humbrecht Gewurztraminer 2019
Albert Boxler Pinot Noir 2021

No charge to attend and no need to RSVP; just swing on by!

Are you bored with Sauvignon Blanc, Albariño, and Dry Riesling? Well, even if the answer is no, and you just wanted to c...
06/24/2025

Are you bored with Sauvignon Blanc, Albariño, and Dry Riesling? Well, even if the answer is no, and you just wanted to change things up in your white wine stable, then I’d say it’s time to consider Dry Furmint.

Furmint is a specialty grape with most of the plantings largely concentrated in Hungary. There it is responsible as the backbone of one of the world’s most iconic sweet wines, Tokaji Aszù. But…that’s only part of its story, because it is also fermented dry, and the results can be magnificent, like the 2019 iteration from the famed Royal Tokaji company.

With the punishing heat and humidity this week, this wine is just what the doctor ordered. With super bright aromas of apricot, orange blossom, and lime zest, along with crunch apple and white peach flavors, this wine hums with fruit and energy. Easily, this could be confused for a great example of a Grosses Gewächs dry Riesling from the Pfalz or Nahe, but for a fraction of the price. Do not sleep on what could very well be one of your new favorite hot weather go to bottles. Now available.

Going down today, we have a mix of vibrant white wines that are tailor-made to help cut through the heat and humidity th...
06/21/2025

Going down today, we have a mix of vibrant white wines that are tailor-made to help cut through the heat and humidity this weekend.

We start off with an herbaceous and honeyed wine from France’s Savoie region; next we are on to a sleek and spicy Gruner Veltliner out of Austria’s famed Wachau; then we arrive to a Savigny-Les-Beaune Blanc that drinks like prized Meursault (also, it is the current wine of the week); and finally we finish with a lip-smacking, energetic Sauvignon Blanc from (France’s) Chablis country.

Wines will be open today from 11-2. No charge to attend and no need to RSVP; just swing on over!

Going down tomorrow! Hot Days, Cool WinesAfter many had mumbled about cooler than normal weather this spring, this weeke...
06/20/2025

Going down tomorrow!
Hot Days, Cool Wines

After many had mumbled about cooler than normal weather this spring, this weekend the thermometer is going to approach triples digits (I hope this is what you wanted! haha). As a way of beating the heat aside from staying in comfy the comfy climes of a house with the AC on high, I have selected a lineup of wines this Saturday that should be ideal to help tamp down the team some.

Here is what the planned lineup is:

Mary Taylor ‘Abymes’ Jacquere, Savoie 2022
Jager Steinfeder Gruner Veltliner, Wachau 2023
Domaine Pavelot Savigny-les-Beaune Blanc 2022
Bailly-Lapierre Sauvignon de St-Bris 2023

11a-2p. No charge to attend and no need to RSVP; just swing on by!

Just arrived. This stuff is the absolute truth! Get some while it’s still around.
06/20/2025

Just arrived. This stuff is the absolute truth! Get some while it’s still around.

The Pavelot family’s care in the vineyards (biodynamically farmed and certified by Ecocert) and adroitness in the cellar...
06/18/2025

The Pavelot family’s care in the vineyards (biodynamically farmed and certified by Ecocert) and adroitness in the cellar are well evidenced by the impeccable nature of their wines. Their reds tend to have a sleek, silky quality to them, abounding with cherry fruit and exotic flowers; while their whites maintain a racy, dynamic edge, with a leaner profile than one typically encounters further south in Meursault, for example.

When sampling the 2022 iteration of their white wine from the village of Savigny-les-Beaune, Meursault is precisely what I thought of, and a good example at that! When I learned of the price we’d be able to charge for a wine delivery this level of complexity and length, I was pretty floored. Ultimately, bringing this wine in was a no-brainer, and I am thrilled to introduce it to our guests today.

From the 1980s through the early 2000s, you couldn’t make a 100% Sangiovese Chianti, so many of Tuscany’s top producers ...
06/17/2025

From the 1980s through the early 2000s, you couldn’t make a 100% Sangiovese Chianti, so many of Tuscany’s top producers threw off the mantle of the DOCG in order to make the wine they wanted, labeled as a simple IGT Toscana. With Testamatta (meaning ‘crazy head’ in Italian), Graetz continues in this tradition, working a set of vineyards immediately south of Florence. To the task of making genre-defining Sangiovese, he brings the meticulous attention to detail he learned in his early life as a painter.

Now this is a wine I have worked with many times over my career and my appreciation of it has not wavered. The best way I can relate this to the uninitiated is to have one picture a plush, ripe-vintaged Brunello di Montalcino, and the 2020 Testamatta most certainly mirrors this. Now available.

Going down today, in prep for Father’s Day, we have a specially prepared Saturday Sippin stocked with some faves of our ...
06/14/2025

Going down today, in prep for Father’s Day, we have a specially prepared Saturday Sippin stocked with some faves of our resident sommelier, Mick.

Entitled “A Few of My Favorite Things..”, the lineup leads with a zesty white from northern Italy’s Lugana region; then on to a ridiculously good Bourgogne Blanc from one of the top producers in Chassagne; next is a deep, brooding sleeper of a Pinot Noir from the village of Comblanchien in the Cote de Nuits; and then we move over to one of Napa’s perennial top Merlots; before finishing with a powerful and concentrated Amarone.

Wine will be ready at 11 and we will run this until 2p. No charge to attend and no need to RSVP; just swing on by.

The room is all set for tonight’s Exploring Nebbiolo edition of our In 6 Glasses wine class series. Super stoked for thi...
06/12/2025

The room is all set for tonight’s Exploring Nebbiolo edition of our In 6 Glasses wine class series. Super stoked for this one.

The lineup is:
2022 Cascina Penna-Currado Langhe Nebbiolo
2020 Poderi Colla “Roncaglie” Barbaresco
2018 Fabio Oberto Barolo
2019 Paolo Scavino “Ravera” Barolo
2008 Produttori del Barbaresco “Paje” Riserva
2009 Luciano Sandrone ‘Le Vigne’ Barolo

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2940 S Rochester Road
Rochester Hills, MI
48307

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Thursday 9am - 8pm
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Sunday 12pm - 6pm

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