Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Recent Glorious Events With Anthony Quinn & Michael Cavanagh Promoting The Very Fine SALTON HARMONIZA Brazilian Serra gaucha Wines / Tasting Them, Too On Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 : The Same Day As The Brazil-Germany Soccer World Cup Match ? Promoting Everything Grand That Is Brazil : & Even In A Soccer Game's Defeat Feeling Like We Came Out Smelling Like Roses & Proud Still For Brazil & All Our Efforts!! Vais Brazil, Vais Brasil!!!





Anthony Quinn Bloody hell : it's just a game! It does not define a country or it's people or anything else for that matter , and so I am picking up the pieces, picking myself up as I wanted Brazil to win the match yesterday and moving right along with even more focus, more direction and dedication and passion! I spoke with Kay Mallon yesterday when she stopped by the store to taste, and my message to her was simple and clear : BRING ME the wines of LIDIO CARRARO from Brazil's Serra Gaucha region to taste as I proudly showed her the Chardonnay on our shelves with the other wines of Brazil from SALTON and AURORA CELLARS, as I am currently out of the RIO/SOL dry red blend of Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon that we like to sell. SO : MAKE ROOM WORLD for more LIDIO CARRARO, RIO/SOL. AURORA CELLARS ( their Pinot Noir is a delight at only $11.99 ! ), and SALTON HARMONIZA, of course. These are the wines of Brazil that I am able to buy these days and share with the world : I cannot find MIOLO, CASA VALDUGA and DON GUERINO these day that, I thought were available through Southern Distributors? Cheers, stay-tuned for more later today ... TONY 7/9/2014






Michael Cavanagh and I have really enjoyed our success at bringing the wines of SALTON HARMONIZA vineyards in Serra Gaucha Brazil to the attention of many that shop at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits in Northwest, Washington D.C., 20008 right in our nations' capitol. It has been one step at a time, one victory at a time, one person tasting and sampling at a time, and one sale at a time. That's okay, that's what constant, vigilant, persistent, hard-work is all about : not giving up even when staring into total disbelief, disinterest, little help, very little support, certainly hardly any commentary from anybody with either damnation or praise, or even acknowledgment for any of our efforts.

That's okay, we are used to it. We have both spoken and reached out to many, we have asked for help, we have asked for support, we have encouraged any participation, we have invited it : and yet there has been little if any response. People too busy, too self-absorbed, not seeing I guess the value or even any interest in what our mission is and what we are doing.

We have asked others to share what we are doing with their friends and colleagues, some have , many have not, at least from anything that we can see or measure.

That's okay, SALTON has at least invested the money for us to use their sample bottles to taste their wines with our customers, and for that alone we are eternally grateful.  Mike and I have been both happy and thrilled to give our time, our expertise and our combined passions to make a real go of this. And we are, we have made great strides and we have done quite a good job I am happy to say. Lots more still has to be done, and there is plenty of time for others to come on board with us and help us get both the SALTON wines and the other wines of Brazil out there into the public's attention.





Even in this temporary defeat of losing a soccer game yesterday that will not dampen our enthusiasm for what we are doing here. Even with dampened spirits and dampened weather of last night we pushed forward and it was fun to taste and see the enthusiasm that we were able to get from many of our customers that still did not know Brazil made weine and that much of it was quite fine! And many of them bought bottles, across the board from the two espumante bottles, the three dry reds, the drier mostly Moscato, and the flavorful, rich, complex Chardonnay.

I will write more as time permits. Enjoy this for the moment " as is ', and stay-tuned for more'

I do want to say this is not about our efforts as much as it is about our belief in what we are doing and having a grand time together really getting both SALTON out there as well as Brazil and what it has to offer us all on so many wonderful levels and in so many incredible ways. Vais Brasil, vais Brazil!!






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MIchael Cavanagh is back here on Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 from 5-8PM to try again the wines of Brazil from SALTON , and we will have a blast and make lots of noise for Brazil and everything-good-BRAZIL here then, no charge, join us, I have invited the Ambassador of Brazil to join us here, too ... TONY 7/5/2014
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MIchael Cavanagh is back here on Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 from 5-8PM to try again the wines of Brazil from SALTON , and we will have a blast and make lots of noise for Brazil and everything-good-BRAZIL here then, no charge, join us, I have invited the Ambassador of Brazil to join us here, too ... TONY 7/5/2014
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Cleveland Park Wine & Spirits Obregado Wines of Brasil, Stephan , Geir , Ana Sofia, Marsha Mari, Daniel Marquez, Luiz Cezar, Genevieve Yazzie-Etsitty, Borgan Bresler e Roberta Baggio Pedreira, you should all come, be a part of this, bring some of your favorite wines of Brasil, even if we cannot buy or sell them yet to our customers, we can still have them taste them and buy them when they do become available here in the United States for us to buy and sell and share with others. You are all always welcome here to our store Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits : you and your family and friends and business associates are always welcome here and we together will taste and sell many fine wines from Brasil many fine beers and also cachacas and whatever else we can get and share. And that is all the fine wine even the reds made from the Bordo grape deserve a place here on our shelves as there are still many people that shop with us that like a fruitier red and a fruitier white. You need to embrace that you have your own wines, your own grapes and your own styles that suit the various foods that you cook. Let's all make lot's of noise for what makes them Brazilian and not international. We have enough international, from Brasil we want uniquely fine and Brazilian! Cheers! Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn Obregado, too : Sonia Denicol, Madame Dos Vinho Adri and so more that promote and recommend the fine wines of Brasil that I am in contact with like Jandir and Vinicius, Ana Paula, Fernanda Zattera, Ruis, Bruno, Clovis Boscato, Roberto Valduga, Jaqueline, Michele, Milto of the Hotel Victoria Dall'Onder that gave me my first taste of the SALTON espumante when I arrived there late at night in the wine town of Bento Goncalves in late June 2012 , Jones Valduga, Gustavo the oenologue at MIOLO, Barbara, Francine or is it Franceen, Elisa, too ... and so many more of you, I cannot remember all your names just now ... TONY Happy Monday, July 7th, 2014 : TOMORROW we taste from 5-8PM, @ Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits in Washington D.C. 20008 : THE Happenin' neighborhood and place to be for ALL THINGS BRASIL , if you are not in Brasil that is!!!!!





Obregado, too : Sonia Denicol, Madame Dos Vinho Adri and so more that promote and recommend the fine wines of Brasil that I am in contact with like Jandir and Vinicius, Ana Paula, Fernanda Zattera, Ruis, Bruno, Clovis Boscato, Roberto Valduga, Jaqueline, Michele, Milto of the Hotel Victoria Dall'Onder that gave me my first taste of the SALTON espumante when I arrived there late at night in the wine toen of Bento Goncalves in late June 2012 , Jones Valduga, Gustavo the oenologue at MIOLO, Barbara, Francine or is it Franceen, Elisa, too ... and so many more of you, I cannot remember all your names just now ... TONY Happy Monday, July 7th, 2014 : TOMORROW we taste from 5-8PM, @ Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits in Washington D.C. 20008 : THE Happenin' neighborhood and place to be for ALL THINGS BRASIL , if you are not in Brasil that is!!!!!
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  • Anthony Quinn Invite your friends that are local. We will have the game going so that they can keep track of the score! TONY
  • Jandir Passos Great Job Tony ! You are fantastic !!
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  • Anthony Quinn Thank you Robert, Vinicius and Jandir, yesterday was a marathon at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits to get ready to watch the match, the the store email out, make lots of noise for Brasil and all that is great and good and fine about it and to work closely with Mike Cavanagh as we both have to sell the fine wines of SALTON Harmoniza Vineyards from Serra Gaucha, southern Brazil not far from Uruguay and Argentina in fact, inland from the coastal town of Porto Allegre and in the beautiful valley of Vale Dos Vinehedos and the town that clings to the sweeping upwards mountains there that fill with nightly and early morning fogs : Bento Goncalves ... My focus, that of Mike's never flagged, we were concentrated and doing everything to make last night, Tuesday July 8th, 2014 a grand success, and damned if we did not! Even in the face of events that shocked, surprised and astounded many, putting doubt and anger and frustration - and deep sadness smack in our eyes - we got many to come taste even with the horribly bad weather drenching us and thundering and lightning us, with a double rainbow later our temporary prize, we had people taste, enjoy, marvel at, discovery and smirk as they initially heard the words : " wines of Brazil ", knowing Brazil's recent soccer fate, they stopped and the did taste, many bought, many were very pleased and impressed, and that was comforting to many shocked with the recent soccer news. Thanks, obregado Mike : we work together very well as a team! TONY 7/9/2014


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  • Sonia Denicol Tony, we have to thank you for doing this great job there at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits. Thank you so much!!!
  • Bralvin It is my great honor and pleasure to do this Sonia! Wish I could work with you here some time? Maybe in the future. I still want very much to return to Brasil, just have to work out the details! TONY When I do get to Brasil I want to come see you first, of course and to work together with you there ... cheers, ... bom dia ...

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