Well, cheers.
It is of course New Year's Eve.
Not everyone will have a glass
of champagne at midnight.
In fact, more and more people are
joining the dry January movement,
even on New Year's Eve where
they just give up alcohol for
the first month of the New Year.
Or people, a lot of people just don't
drink and they just want to still go to
these gatherings and have a great time.
So we have the owner of
Cedar Lake Wine company,
Rodney Brown here.
And I was just looking at all the
varieties and you said that this
sector of your store has been growing
and growing and also getting more.
More better and better,
as you mentioned, right.
This has started
about 2019. We saw an uptick,
you know, in January.
That was really the first year that
we heard the term dry January.
And every year it's kind of grown.
And the things that we're able
to get now are much better
than they ever used to be.
There's very good options that if people
didn't know they didn't have alcohol,
they would never know.
Yeah. And then, then of course,
then they just feel more comfortable
at the parties and have gatherers.
And if you're having a party,
make sure you have some of
these varieties. Available.
OK, so let's start out with these
really pretty bottles here.
What is this?
These are brand new and they're
from Australia and they're actually
tea based and botanical infused.
Sparkling. Ohh. Wow. No alcohol
from Australia. Did you mention?
Yeah. OK, I'm gonna try this one.
This is like the Rose one, huh?
Well, it's actually,
if you look at the label,
it's actually Raspberry,
I think that one.
Raspberry chamomile.
Alt, they're pretty intense flavors.
It looks really pretty, looks super pretty.
Oh, it tastes really, really good.
Well, that's great.
I like that a lot. I like that
with folks who are looking
for no alcohol options.
There's also a lot of times
they get embarrassed and they
feel that they don't have an
option if they go to a party.
So it's nice to have these.
Yeah, absolutely. What's this one?
That is actually brand new
German sparkling. Riesling.
OK. And this is kind of fun
because it's got the traditional
champagne cork. And yeah,
I haven't seen that before.
That's a great idea.
These are all brand new for us
in the last couple of weeks.
But with this you get get
these celebratory pop,
there you go. What a good plan.
I like that. Ohh, that's so neat.
Alright, well let's the bubbles go away.
I'll try it in a minute.
Let's go through these that you have.
So what what's this category
here? Those are proseccos and
that the brand of that is groovy.
They make a rose and a black Prosecco.
They also make this Nitro stout and a beer.
OK, we'll go to the wine.
And just a moment, these are
gorgeous. Tell me about these.
Those are little Spanish and one
Italian sparkling rose and Chardonnay
and then a Spanish white varietal.
Well this kind of nice
to have the the singles.
You because then that just kind of is
easier for people who are going to
be just going ahead and trying that.
OK, now Bobby drinks non alcoholic beer.
He hasn't been drinking for a
number of months now and so he
really is a connoisseur of it.
And you have a number of them here.
You said he'd really like this one, right?
That's the poliner radler.
Radler is a lemon wheat beer, OK,
and nice and crisp and clean.
The the craft beer in a category is
probably the best that it's ever been.
Oh my God. So you mentioned that these
folks make this. What's this one?
That is a Nitro mocha stout.
Ohh. Wow. So it's got the little
Nitro capsule in the can, OK.
And it puts a nice frothy head on the beer.
Ohh, we have to try that.
We just have to open that one
up and tell me about this one.
That's actually from our
friends over at Summit.
That's brand new this fall.
That's there. A
option. OK, that's cool.
And you know we have mentioned this one.
I actually tried this.
This is local, right, and fresh.
Yeah. Tell us about this last one
here. So that's the bootleg mixer from
our folks at Summer Lakes and that's
another local company that we've dealt
with now since the fall of 2019.
This is one of our best selling products.
What's really nice about this is,
is you can have that for your
guests and you can make it with
alcohol or you can make it without.
Oh, that's good. There we go.
You know what I love this bootleg
mix and it is in the refrigerator
there at your at your place.
And so, yeah, you normally put what,
vodka or gin and right, vodka, gin, tequila.
Well, I think people just love the
bootleg as well the all the mint and yeah,
ohh, that's really good.
Yeah, I like that one.
Well, I'll let you try this one.
I'll try the champagne.
Sure. Cheers to 2023. Sure.
Thank you for coming on our show
and helping us so much with so many
different categories of what you
have at your store right around
the corner here in Golden Valley.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Absolutely.