Cleveland Park Beer, Liquor & Wine
Featuring a wide, international selection of fine wines, micro-brews and spirits
SUNSHINE,MoRE italian reds,plumP wineS - some, more lean ones, too!
five presidential primaries going on today, come by, get what you want here to enjoy at home tonight while watching
the returns , or while watching " The Voice ' , or wahtever else you
like, perhaps listening to some Mozart or some Prince, deciding what
purple outfit to wear tomorrow?
THINKING OF THE
organic wine on OUR shelves from austria like the MEINKLANG
biodynamic wine estate, austrian ' prosa ' 2014 osterreich dry rose,
$18.99 a bottle, with only 10.5% alcohol by volume, nice! On the Austrian-hungarian border, this is a DEMETER wine with some sparkle, too.
THE SUN'S OUT NOW, ...
Tomorrow
is both the birthday of Alan and Katarina and so I want to take this
moment to wish them both a really good day and night to celebrate their
birthdays! Cheers, I raise a glass to you.
I ALSO RAISE A GLASS to our dear friend and fellow former Cleveland
Park store/bar/restaurant manager Dave Hansen that is waiting for the
next liver as his has suffered and must soon be replaced. Dave, our
thoughts are with you our dear friend and fellow-hard-worker, dedicated
neighborhood Cleveland Park advocate, too. You are the best, we wish
you the very best, your service here while at PULPO was great, you
rewally added to our neighborhood, supporting it always, and we miss
you, and want the very best for you Dave!
THINKING OF rose wines and our ...
' BiIG THEME ' ROSE tasting coming up this Wednesday, May 4th, 2016. Free, everyone always welcome. Please mark your calendars now so you do not forget.
IT WILL BE FUN, it will be exciting, many rose dry wines, some
sparkling, too will be poured by four of our favorite reps that
represent really fine portfolios of trose wines :
1) Oscar Losama co-owner with his wife Olivia Bobart of Voila
Collection / Oslo Enterprise that specializes in French wine. Oscar
always comes by with samples, many of them, of his fine small estates
all around France for us to try. As a result we always buy an assortment
from Oscar, and are happy to do so as we have thus tasted the wines
and have some real idea of what we will be tasting. That is important.
From Oscar we will only our French wines, and they represent all
prices, all styles, all different colors and densities, too of rose dry
wines, prices as well. Thank you, merci Oscar, merci Olivia, can't
wait to taste the Provence, Costieres de Nimes, and southwest French
wines, too, like Saint-Chinian - the ' ever-popular ' La Vie En Rose ',
2015, $16.99, ... and more ...
2) Alan Cohen , Vice President, Owner of LVDH Imports that also
brings early here a selection of fine, mostly French, dry rose wines,
with the wonderful adition of the HOLLORAN Willamette Valley rose that
we tasted here with the owner himself, Bill Holloran , we presolf off
the bottle sample Bill had 14 bottles, not bad! Thanks Bill, thanks
Alan. From Alan one I look forward to is the ' Les Ligeriens ' Val de
Loire, Loire Valley Rose D'Anjou 2015, $11.99, because it is always a
touch off-dry and so nice to sip all by itself. Some of our customers
love this style, so we must have some each year.
3) James Kellaris of Roanoke Distributing will be pouring three
amazing French bubblies : two from France that includes a fine southwest
France MAS DE DAUMAS Frizzante sparkling , a GUILHEM dry rose 2015,
and an AIX en Provence dry 2015, too.
4) Erin Weaver our local rep for Lanterna Imports actually suggested
this idea to me for another rose tasting and I jumped on it once I
thought about it. It makes perfect sense, really works for us. This will
be wonderful. With Erin we will have Le Grand Courtage , a Grand Cuvee
Brut rose, $22.99 a bottle, that has a lovely focused, firm yet
generous pleasing taste. really quite special! Erin will also have one
French dry rose from Corbieres that was delightful, as well as some
Spanish roses, and also a Vinho Verde dry rose, too!
THanks Erin for suggesting this to me over the phone the other
night. This will be a great way of fully embracing spring and thinking,
too to the summer months that are already knocking on all our doors and
soon on our windows that will either be open to welcome the breezes or
closed to keep the humidity and heat out!
CHEERS ALL, JOIN US for our ROSE Big-Theme Tasting on Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 from 5:30-8:30PM, free, you all are welcome to join us.
ALL WE ASK is that you call and give us your names of the number of
people coming to taste these delightful rose wines, or send me an
email telling me how many you will be in your party :
tonythewineguy@gmail.com.
BUT HEY, I HAD A BEER I REALLY LIKED LAST NIGHT! It was the CALVERT
Brewery , Rye something or other and it blew me away and I just told
Santos and he is ordering some to come this Thursday, and so I will stay mumm on this till next Tuesday
and do a full-waxing-poetic then! It will sell for $11.99 a 6-pack of
12-ounce bottles! Be prepared to be wowwed! And it has less than 6%
alcohol by volume, smooth as can be, loved the velvet lining inside and
out.
ALSO IN BEER From Santos we have :
1) A Brett Saison ' Century Ale ' from ALLAGASH Brewing
Company, $13.99 a 12.7Fl. Oz bottle,, 375ml, with 8.2% alcohol by
volume, a real treat from ALLAGASH Brewing, some real flavor here.
2) Strawberry Schwarzcake , a German-style black lager brewed
with strawberries, from the WILD WOLF Brewing Company, Nellysford, VA.
2958, On Special for $5.99 a bottle, with 5% alcohol by volume, ...
come try some real soon!
3) Raspberry Stout from HARDYWOOD, On Special for $10.99, '
Reserve Series ', from Richmond, Virginia, an Agriberry , Cultivate ...
wow, cheers, what fun!
LIQUEUR, LIQUOR From Jagir :
1) THe ' Original " Honey Liqueur from IRISH MIST , with honey
and natural aromatic spices, too , $28.99 a bottle, with 35% alcohol
by volume.
2) Original Liqueur Cream from McGUIRE'S , made with imported
Irish whiskey, On Special for $12.99 a bottle, what an amazing deal,
come try some, this should become your summer Irish cream drink , yes!
3) Untitled Whiskey No. 2 3/28/16 Batch 2 , from ONE EIGHT,
$66.99, with 46% alcohol by volume, come taste this, what a treat,
support D.C., support small business, support great talent, initiative
and quality, too!
4) Peach flavored vodka from DEEP EDDY in Austin, Texas,
$16.99, with 35% alcohol by volume, this is the latest flavor that we
have added here to the DEEP EDDY line, come check it out and see if you
like it as much as the others.
5) London Dry Gin from BULLDOG , $23.99, is a class-act, and
almost classic here now. We love it, remember when Lauren Jones used to
come here and taste it with you all. Thanks Lauren, you started or
maintained something special here as I believe Jody Jackman also used to
represent it here? With 40% alcohol by volume, : " A Brazen Breed,
Perfectly Balanced With Natural Poppy, Dragon Eye, and Hints of Crisp
Citrus .... " I liked it, really fresh, lively , smooth, great value,
too.
TWO LIQUOR, LIQUEUR, BRANDY Tastings Tomorrow :
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 ( 5-8PM ) :
1) CATOCTIN CREEK Distillery here locally in Purcelleville,
Virginia will be here tasting the two Rye whiskies, and the brandy, like
the Roundstone Rye Single Barrel whiskey, distilled from 100% Rye,
$41.99 a bottle, what a treat, it will be grand to get Chad back here
tasting with you all! Join us, always free. Everyone always more than
welcome here.
2) WE have our Irish rep fresh from Ireland here to taste two
from GLENDALOUGH, the 7-Year-Old and the ' Double Barrel, both some of
the best Irish whisky ever, the ' Double-Barrel ' , $39.99, with 42%
alcohol by volume, is made in small batches and aged for three and a
half years in Bourbon barrels and then another six months in Oloroso
sherry casks! Wonderful, I tried them both recently : both top-flight.
WINE From Chris & Tony :
1) 2015 CHATEAU LA TOUR DE BERAUD, $14.99, from France's
Costieres de Nimes with 13.5% alcohol by volume is a real gem and Oscar
Losama will taste this if there is any left on our Big-Theme ROSE
Wine-Tasting on Wednesday, May 4th, 2016, free, join us, it is a fine bottle, tasty, refreshing, and alluring, too!
2) 2015 Professor Black Sauvignon Blanc from WARWICK in South
Africa, with 13% alcohol by volume, from the Coastal Region, made by
Mike Radcliff, I like selling this strong, bolder, dry and tasty
expression of Sauvignon Blanc, quite the treat, great when you grill
outside, some shrimp, some veggies, some goat's cheese , some hummus,
whatever, a joy to drink, thanks Mike!
3) Viognier 2014 from RIDGEBACK,$19.49 a bottle, produced and
matured at Langerwacht Farm, Paarl, South Africa, 13.5% alcohol by
volume, quite the mouth-feel, grip, flavor, and wonderful lingering
intensity, too here in the still version, also available in the
sparkling one, we have both!
4) ' Zeepaard ' Western Australia, from WEST CAPE HOWE, 2012
Shiraz, $11.99, a fine, fine, really nice dry and tasty Shiraz red from
our friend Gavin Berry the winemaker there!
5) Primitivo Gioia Del Colle ' Allegoria ' from Marianna Annio
from her family's PIETRAVENTOSA winery, On Special for $19.99 a
bottle, regularly $21.99, 2013, with 13.5% alcohol by volume, this is
lovely, polished, bright, still young, will improve a lot over the next
6-12 months, I like it, almost like some carbonic maceration in the
taste at first, it blows off after awhile, so crisp and lively from the
get-go, but settles and rounds out and becomes downright expansive in a
wonderful story-telling way after in the glass or open for an hour's
time!
6) Riesling 2013 from South Africa's SPIOENKOP region, On
Special for $24.99, regularly $32.99 : this is an amazing dry, complex,
mineral-faceted, citrus-bedecked, dazzling and full and profound dry
Riesling to enjoy with any meal that needs a white that will keep and
hold it's own with many strong flavors and textures. YES!
SAVE BIG HERE tomorrow, Wednesday,
ALways SAVE UP to 20% OFF the marked sticker prices on still and
sparkling wines, three ways, ( Veuve Clicquot and Moet not included ),
come SAVE, come taste, come learn, come luxuriate in the glow of spirits
and wines that we offer here seven days a week, in beers, too, ciders
as well.
WEEK'S TASTINGS :
Friday, April 29th, 2016 ( 5-8PM
) : We have Razvan here of his wone company here to pour his special
wines of Romania from the MOSER to the with the Fateasca Neagra and the
Babeasca Neagra for the reds, and the Sarba for the white, and the GLIA
Feteasca Neagra, too, not to mention the organic wines made with the
Babeasca Neagra grapes, we will see when Razvan calls me tomorrow, we like them all!
Saturday, April 30th, 2016 ( 2-6PM
) : We have Theresa Morrison here right now to talk about our tasting!
What timing!!! And we have four great wines to taste with you all, two
Malbecs, one from Argentina ( 1) VIAMONTE Malbec Reserva, On Special
for $22.99, regularly $32.99 - onlt 23 bottles available! from
Mendoza, Lujan de Cajo , smooth as a newborn baby's skin, velvet soft,
delicious ... , and the YORKVILLE CELLARS Malbec, $29.99from Yorkville
Highlands Mendocino, organic, made by Deborah and Edward Wallo,
growers, owners , that is also sooooo smooth, a bit leaner, not quite
as full and generous, but generous , too : love them both : and I
rarely say this about Malbec. Come taste and see what you think?
ALSO : Theresa will pour the DE MEYE rose dry Shiraz 2015, that is
bright, focused and a delight to sip, it will make you hungry as you
start your second glass, and the COMPASS Sauvignon Blanc from Sonoma,
made by Jonathan Dreyer, this, too is a lovely wine to sip at our week's
end, and we - you - us - ALL of us will be more than ready to sip our
worries and stresses down to a maneagable level! Yes! Whate fu, free,
join us, it only costs you when you let your guard down and actually but
one or more or three or four!
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, you are all gold, the very best, love you! Come see us!
