Wine of the Week Archive
2010
2/16-3/01 Feudo Arancio, Grillo Sicilia, 2008, $6.96, reg. $9.99
2/09-2/22 Rabbit Ridge "Le Lapin," Multiplicity" Red, NV, $5.96, reg. 7.99
2/02-2/15 Tierra Buena, Rueda, 2008, $7.96, reg. $9.99
1/26-2/08 Bodegas Castaño, "Solanera" 2005, $9.96, reg. $16.99 Gone! Sold Out.
1/19-2/01 Laurent Miquel, Chardonnay-Viognier, 2008, $6.96, reg. $9.99
1/12-1/25 Codirosso, Chianti 2008, $5.96, reg. $7.99
1/05-1/18 Four Sisters, Sauvignon Blanc 2008, $8.96, reg. $12.99
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Kilroy Was Is Here
Rocland Wines is a custom crush winery in Nuriootpa, Barossa Valley, Australia. They’ve produced fabulously successful wines for others like the highly reviewed “Layer Cake” and “Boarding Pass.” Now owner Franz Rocca has named his own wine Kilroy because he is “all about making your mark in the world.” You see, in WWII US soldiers drew “Kilroy was here” graffiti wherever they traveled. Australian wine guru James Halliday describes Kilroy as “full-on Barossa Valley Style, with considerable intensity and length to the array of black fruits, a touch of dark chocolate and oak.”
On Sale for $9.96 through 2/21/11
Regularly $19.99
Open for tasting at both stores
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Wine Accessories
Other than which wine to serve with a particular dish, the most common questions we are asked are how to open bottles, how long will opened wine last and what to do about red wine stains. Here are our answers, each answer a practical way to solve the problem.
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Winemakers & Wineries
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Champagne!
All that sparkles is not Champagne. Just as all tissue is not Kleenex, all “champagne” is not Champagne. Legally, and perhaps morally, only sparkling wines from the Champagne region of France can be called Champagne. But “champagne” has become a generic word in the popular mind like Xerox or Coke. Call Spain’s sparklers “cava,” Austria and Germany’s “sekt,” Italy’s “spumante,” and France’s (outside Champagne) “cremant.” The word has geographical significance (Champagne is a place, after all),
“denoting a specific mélange of environmental factors (soil, climate-even its air smells different!) that makes the wine it yields unique. Champagne or other sparkling wines are a festive way to open holiday ceremonies. Spirits brighten, tongues loosen, stomachs start to growl. Champagne can be visually intoxicating…The bead rises in a swirling, swaying, sensually elegant ballet.” -importer Kermit Lynch, Inspiring Thirst
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