The Savory Grape Charity Fall Wine Festival
 We are excited to announce the
4th Annual Savory Grape Charity Fall Wine Festival
to benefit the RI Community Action Association, a statewide nonprofit that helps economically disadvantaged and working families with essentials such as shelter, healthcare and food.
We hope you'll join us at this pre-holiday, always sold-out event to taste many sought-after wines of limited distribution and availability from vineyards around the world. You'll enjoy live music by Karn Duo and a fine selection of heavy hors d'oeuvres. Silent auctions and raffles will be held. The event is Friday, November 12, 7-10 PM at the Crowne Plaza, 801 Greenwich Ave., in Warwick.
Tickets are $55 per person and $50 for wine club members.To purchase tickets, please click here or call us at 401-886-9463. Last year, the festival rasied $14,000. Our goal this year is $20,000.
We thank Adler, Pollock & Sheehan for its generous donation to this event.
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The Savory Grape Takes Home
Three Rhode Island Awards
Just recently, The Savory Grape won three statewide awards - the Providence Business News Top 40 Under 40 and two "Best Of RI" awards by RI Monthly Magazine - Best Wine Shop West Bay (Reader's Poll) and Best Old Favorite, New Location (Editor's Poll). We thank you for the continued support and patronage during the last 4+ years.
Granatiero Wins Women inBusiness Award by Providence Business News
Jessica Granatiero was one of 10 honorees this year to win the Women in Business awards by Providence Business News. The full feature article can be read here.
 The Savory Grape One of 250 Selected to
Attend
Oregon Pinot Camp
The Savory Grape Wine Shop owner Jessica Granatiero was chosen as the only Rhode Island delegate to ever attend the exclusive wine industry Oregon Pinot Camp (OPC), a 3-day hands on event working with Oregon’s winemakers and vineyard owners.OPC, in its 11th year, has extended coveted invitations to campers from 47 states and internationally. Granatiero is one of only 250 people internationally and the only one from RI selected to attend this year's camp.
 The Savory Grape in the Wall Street Journal and Providence Business News. Proprietor Jessica Granatiero was recently featured as a Woman in Business in RI's Providence Business News. TSG has received great media accolades, receiving Best Wine Shop award from RI Monthly for 2009, 08, 07 and 06, was featured in the Wall Street Journal twice in June and July 2009 and was written about by Providence Journal's Food Editor Gail Ciampa.
AWARDS
"Voted Best Wine Shop in Rhode Island's West Bay"
~2010 RI Monthly's Reader's Poll
"Voted Best Old Favorite, New Location "
~2010 RI Monthly's Editor's Poll
"Voted Best Wine Shop in Rhode Island's West Bay"
~2009 RI Monthly's Reader's Poll
"Voted Best Wine Shop in Rhode Island's West Bay"
~2008 RI Monthly's Reader's Poll
"Voted Best Wine Shop in Rhode Island's West Bay"
~2007 RI Monthly's Reader's Poll
"Voted Best New Wine Shop in Rhode Island"
~2006 RI Monthly's Editor's Poll
"Voted Best Wine Newsletter in Rhode Island" 
~2006 RI Monthly's Editor's Poll |
PRESS
Wall Street Journal, June 2009/Link to article
In 2009, then Wall Street Journal Wine Writers Dorothy Gaiter & John Brecher featured The Savory Grape in two articles. Click here to be taken to the WSJ site for the article Getting Help with Wine Choices and for our expert recommendations on purchasing wines on a budget. Then a follow up article on What's Up with Arinto appeared a few weeks later. Click here for the article.
~ Wall Street Journal
Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, January 2009/ Link to Review
The Savory Grape raises more than $9,000 at its 2nd Annual Fall Wine Tasting Festival for the RI Community Action Association.
~ RI Scene, RI Monthly Magazine
Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, December 2008/Link to article
“The kitchen counter is terrible for keeping wine longer than a few days, max,”says Jessica Granatiero. “[Temperature] variations play havoc."
~ Creating a Wine Cellar, RI Monthly Magazine
Providence Journal, November 2008/ Link to Review
“When [The Savory Grape] set up shop on Main Street, they embraced everything that set them apart from everyday liquor stores. Making wine accessible with weekly tastings, a weekly e-mail newsletter with a subscriber base of 2,000, and an under $11 table with many $7 and $8 bottle best buys for those who want to experiment in an affordable way.”
~ Gail Ciampa, Providence Journal Food Editor
SO Rhode Island Magazine, July 2008/ Link to Guest Editorial
Jessica Granatiero wrote a guest editorial for the July issue of SO Rhode Island magazine.
Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, January 2008/ Link to Review
The Savory Grape raised more than $7,000 at its First Annual Fall Wine Tasting Festival for the RI Community Food Bank.
~ RI Scene, Rhode Island Monthly Magazine
Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, March 2007/ Link to Review
Wine shops that will deliver whatever you want straight to your door (or dock).
~ Wine & Dine, Rhode Island Monthly Magazine
Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, December 2006/ Link to Review
Six stores with a deep inventory and smart staff.
~ Karen Deutsch, Rhode Island Monthly Magazine Writer
WinePeeks TV, October 2006/ Link to Footage
The Savory Grape was showcased on Wine Peeks TV, which is based on footage from a NBC airing. Chicago's NBC visited The Savory Grape in October 2006 during its wine and food tour of various places in NYC and Rhode Island. Link to footage.
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