The Rathskeller
BEER HALL MEETS MODERN
The Rathskeller is the German term for ‘council’s cellar,’ a room in the basement of a civil building. Formerly the mansion's basement housed the jail cell for Morristown. Now, the Rathskeller serves as an event space for weddings, corporate events, and celebrations of all kinds, as well as our own curated concerts and comedy shows. The basement is accessible through the parking garage underneath the mansion, using the stairs next to the Vail Bar, or by taking the elevator from the main or second floor.
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Owner/Managing Partner-Chris Cannon
Wine Director/Sommelier-Derrick VanDuzer
We have put together an extensive list of mostly small producers who put the same love into their craft as we have put into ours. We are almost always here to chat and answer any questions you might have. So have some fun and explore!!!
Sparkling Wine
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Eugene Carrel, Methode Traditionnelle Brut Rosé | NV {Alpine Sparkling Wine From A CRAZY Producer}
Carrel's unique Savoie Rosé is a blend of 80% Gamay and 20%Mondeuse. Both varieties are pressed immediately for under 3 hours to preserve freshness and obtain the desired pale red color. To attain the fullest expression of aromas and lively fruit, Olivier Carrel keeps the alcoholic fermentation at a low 16 degrees Centigrade for 15 days.
$17
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Cima da Conegliano, DOC Prosecco Extra Dry | NV {Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Prosecco}
Cima da Conegliano was founded in the seventies by Franco Da Ros, a pioneer of the Prosecco culture. Today, it is a family-run artisanal estate distinguished by exceptional attention to the very high quality products offered: each with their own characteristics and unique qualities. This Prosecco offers aromas of green and golden delicious apples.
$15
White Wine
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Geierslay, Vertigo Feinherb Riesling | 2023
Sugared pear and peaches with bright spearmint. Soft palate with a ripe lemony-lime finish. Winemaker Max Kilburg is bringing young, creative energy to transform his family's wines into expressing their premium Mosel vineyards utilizing minimal intervention + native yeasts.
$17
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la Cappuccina, Soave | 2022
This wine has always constituted the backbone of the estate’s range. Clean, crisp, stony and savoury-fruity, this is a well-balanced and food-friendly Italian white with an extra measure of depth and complexity.
$16
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Woodlands, Wilyabrup Valley Chardonnay | 2022
The Wilyabrup subregion of Margaret River is widely acclaimed by industry pundits as the source of Australia’s finest Chardonnay. Woodland’s consuming ambition is to create wines that emulate the great vineyards of the world.
$17
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Auntsfield, Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc | 2023 {Family Run Winery Stretching Back To 1873}
Powerful, tight and elegant. This wine displays intense ripe fruit flavours of passionfruit juice and white peach, with citrus notes of lime and mandarin pith. The palate has intense concentration and generous weight, balanced by an underlying minerality and tight structure to shape a wine with lively tension and textural balance.
$16
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Domaine Reine Juliette | Picpoul de Pinet | 2022 {Picpoul means "stings the lip"}
this white made of 100% Picpoul blanc planted to red clay soils along edge of the Bassin de Thau. The fruit is 100% destemmed and sorted, and then it is made from a blend of free run and pneumatic press juice. Fermentation in stainless steel settled with cold. Short aging in bottle prior to release.
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Rose Wine
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Rousseau Frères, Touraine Noble Joué | 2022
40% Pinot Meunier, 30% Pinot Gris, 30% Pinot Noir Established in the suburb of Tours, in Esvres, the Touraine Noble Joué’s. Soil in mainly clay-siliceous and sand-siliceous, with flint stone on thesurface. This area is located on a plateau above the Indre river. The grapes undergo direct pressing, to create the pale ‘vin gris’ a style. Noadded sulfur Temperature controlled fermentation occurs over the course of 3 weeks.The wine is aged in steel tanks for 4 months before being bottled in the Spring
$16
Red Wine
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Lovely Creatures, Western Cape Cabernet Sauvignon | 2022 {From The Famed Wine Maker Stephanie Wiid}
The third vintage of the Lovely Creatures Cabernet Sauvignon is, in Stephanie’s humble opinion, the best one yet! “Chuffed with how this Cab turned out… too good probably!” were her exact words. For the second vintage in a row, Steph continues to source fruit located on the awe-inspiring slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain in Stellenbosch. 455 Cases Made.
$17
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Forastero, Mendoza Malbec | 2021
The high elevation vineyards of the Uco Valley are what make this Malbec so special. Malbec struggles to maintain acidity in lower elevations but does fabulously in higher elevation spots where there is a large diurnal temperature shift (cold nights and sunny days). Forastero (Spanish for "stranger") is a dense and layered red wine, with loads of crushed plum, macerated blackberry and lovely tea and spice notes. Grapes are farmed from vines ranging 1,100 and 1,500 meters in elevation.
$16
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Shelter Winery, Baden Spätburgunder | 2021
Hans-Bert Espe and Silke Wolf are two Northerners who met while studying winemaking at Geisenheim and decided to found their own estate in 2003. They made their first wines in a bunker on an abandoned Canadian airfield (hence the name) and have since built themselves a winery based on the same design. They have vineyards with old vines in the villages of Kenzingen and Malterdingen, and produce some of the best wines of the region.
$17
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Candialle, Ciclope Rosso Toscano | 2013 {Well Aged Well Balanced Super Tuscan}
Josephin & Jarkko Peränen lead the team behind the Candialle winery. Their 42 hectares consist of olive trees, surrounding woodlands, and 12 hectares planted to vines. They plant cover crops like barley and wheat to protect the soils. These soils are called Galestra, a combination of limestone, clay, sandstone, and chalk, which gives their Sangiovese both a power and lightness.
$17
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Quinta Das Maias, Dao Vinho Tinto | 2017 {Certified Organic Super Complex Portuguese Red}
Quinta das Maias is a prime example of the passion with which newly-crafted wines from the Dão region are formed. Located 600 meters above sea level on a high plateau in the area, it's a gorgeous-looking wine farm owned by Luis Lourenço, a former mathematics teacher, who has taken a methodical approach to winemaking and controls all its processes.
$15
Dessert Wine
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Dandelion Vineyards, Legacy of Australia PX Sherry | 30 Year
You Like Wine Press? Here you go!! 2023 Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition - Top Dessert Wine, Double Gold Medal, Regional Class Champion, Class Champion The Real Review, Huon Hooke - 95 Points The Wine Advocate – 94 Points James Halliday Australian Wine Companion - 93 Points James Suckling – 92 Points 1
$16
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Acquesi, Valle delle Rose Brachetto D' Acqui | 2022
Very small grape production in Piemonte. Brachetto is a dessert wine and the perfect alternative to Moscato. It has a wonderful aroma of strawberry and raspberry with notes of flowers such as violets and orchids. It is frizzante, lightly sparkling.
$14
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Domaine du Mas Blanc, Banyuls Hors d'Age le Colloque | NV
From the benchmark producer of the appellation and most historic estate in Roussillon, ‘Le Colloque’ is made from old-vine Grenache noir aged in demi-muid. The wine is a blend of three vintages with reserve wine from the previous blend of vintages in a roughly 2/3 to 1/3 proportion. Balanced, poised and energetic, the specified vintages lend vibrancy and exuberance; the reserve wine depth and complexity.
$16