It's been great to work with Andrew Stove over the past year or so that works through Siema Imports while he is a sommelier at Washington D.C.'s Oye restaurant and now helps, too at the Sax restaurant that opened recently with much fan-fare for the bubblies they serve as well as the correct or politically-incorrect artwork spread throughout the restaurant as well? being an artist I notice this type of thing and like to mention and to record it just as I have with the picture above of Mark Congdon's metal, shiny ice bucket above that holds the bottles from Andrew as well as his own with the wines of wine-maker/ owner Michael Shaps' own wines, those of WINEWORKS and the red and white burgundies that he poured like the white Meursault and the 2005 Vosne Romanee.
Andrew poured the wines from his collection of what I term the " lesser-known U.S. States " wines of Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho and Michigan ( STRONGHOLD, SAWTOOTH, l.WAWBY and more ) that he poured on this double-billed event with he and Michael Shaps. It was quite the weekend event at our store in the Washington D.C. neighborhood of Cleveland Park N.W. at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008 Tel:202-363-4265 sales@clevelandparkwine.com, anthony.quinn@clevelandparkwine.com http://www.clevelandparkwine.com/ , also now on Facebook at : Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits and on Twitter at : cpwinespirits, too ) late last year. It was a grand event and we introduced and sold many " new and exciting " wines to our customers.
Andrew and I came up with the idea and we reached out to Mark Congdon to call Michael Shaps that agreed to do the tasting at our store. We all really enjoyed ourselves and the wines all really showed well. It has been a great collaborative effort for all of us for this past year and is strong and growing well into 2011 here on Sunday, May 29th, on Memorial Day weekend. We still have some of all of these wines.
Later today I will go with my family to Wolf Trap on our annual visit to hear the President's Band sing patriotic songs and play them, too as well as tell many stories and anecdotes. We will drink our wine and eat our food out on the grass by the stage and then move over to the hill by the stage and have an incredible display of wonderful fireworks go off just 200 yards above our heads or so and listen to a medley of songs by the artists that will play this summer at Wolf Trap. This will be a great way to celebrate the lives and efforts of those alive and dead that have served in the armed forces to keep us protected and safe from harm in ever-growing trying world times. Thanks to them all : we are humbled and proud of their courageous efforts.
Drink some of these wonderful wines in the ice bucket above this weekend. Come to our store in search of them or ask your local wine retailers to find them for you. You will not be disappointed. Rather, you will be elevated, invigorated, pleased, teased, charmed and overall fall into their intriguing spells. Cheers and Happy Memorial Day to one and to all.
Thanks Andrew, Michael, Mark and the import houses of J.W. Sieg and Siema for all your assistance over the years and especially now. We appreciate it all very much and could not do what we do and offer what we do without your invaluable assistance, time and energy and expertise and belief in us. TONY
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