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WE'VE BEEN BUSY getting ready here for ( in alpgabetical order ) :
CHRISTMAS
HANUKKAH
KWANZAA
May all your holidays be grand, festive, joyful, cheerful, and more!
WE APPRECIATE ALL that you have done for us over the
years, you all are the very very very best, and we appreciate your
patronage and work to keep it.
THIS EMAIL will be more relaxed than usual, as it is
our holiday time together and we need to make it fun and special, warm,
cozy, less-stressful, and totally en(JOY)able!
I HAVE WALKED the length of the store as is my custom and pulled many fine selections to recommend to you aall. Check them out, come see us, see what you think, hold them in your hands, turn them around, examine them personally and decide. Up close-and-personal, you and whatever you are interested in, that is the way!
IAN just came in a few minutes ago and asked me : " Do
you have any local ONE EIGHT brewery products? " I said immediately : "
Brewery?!? You mean distillery! ", and I continued : " And ' yes ' we
have the ONE EIGHT Distillery products here! " smiling as I said all
this. What fun.
AND I want to make a ' Shout Out ! " to Queen
Latifah, Shakim Compere and the rest of the Flavor Unit Family as their
names came up earlier as Robert took an order and I helped a lady with
her fine holiday bourbon needs! Love it, small world, we all need one
another, we all help one another!
TO ALL OF YOU WE SAY : Danke, Grazie, Kop Kun Klop (
Thai ), Dank U ( Dutch ), Smukria ( Aap Sab Ka , India ), Gracias,
Merci, thanks, thank you, ... abd THANKS in all the other languages of
the world : THANK YOU all very much!
SO : What's ' New & Exciting ?!? ' :
BEER - in the world of Santos :
1) Samichlaus ' Classic ' - The world's most
extraordinary beverage ' they claim : Malt liquor , bottled in 2015,
from SCHLOSS EGGENBERG Brewery, brewed once a year in December 5th, ...
something really special here to warm your heart and soul, ... On
Special for $22.99, a four-pack of 12-ounce bottles, ... perfect now.
2)Tangerine Quad Belgian style quadruple ale with
Tangerine Peel added, aged in Bourbon barrels, from AVERY Brewing Co. ,
On Special for $14.99 for a 10.1 alcohol by volume, 1 Pt. 6 flouid ouce
bottle - refreshing, nice, a palate cleanser!
HUMAN INTEREST UPDATE :
I just spoke to Kate and thought it was Sandy her
mother as they both sound similar on the phone, ... and at the end of
our conversation after expressing again our condolences at the loss of
Bill her father and Sandy's husband I said : " And is Kate back yet? "
And Kate responds immediately : " But I am kate! " Opps. Gulp. " I am
soooo sorry Kate, I thought I was speaking to Sandy. " Oh well, she told
me that everyone mistakes the two of them on the phone. Welcome home
Kate and Sandy!
3) Delirium Noel from the Belgian Family
Brewers, a cute 4-pack of holiday bottles for Christmas, On Special for
$21.99 a bottle, what a treat11.2Fl Oz bottles, Belgian ale from Huyghe,
...10% alcohol by volume...
IN SPIRITS From Jagir we have :
1) Borough Bourbon Kentucky Straight Bourbon
whiskey finished in French oak barrels, from REPUBLIC RESTORATIVES ,
District Of Columbia, On Special for $49.99 a bottle, so flavorful and
alive with fire, warmth and charm, love it! Medium weight...
2) KINSEY Whiskey Aged 7 Years, A Pennsylvania
Classic resurrected after years of neglect and freshened and brightened,
so lively and smooth, silky-bright, satiny - loved it. Carolyn Moffa
our local rep poured it here this past Saturday, a lovely treat from
Pennsylvania, On Special for $35.99, really recommended.
3) Pisco ' La Diablada ' , Amelia's Centennial
Blend, $38.99, silky, bright, satiny, sooooo delightfully refreshing and
smooth, I like it a whole lot. Melanie Asher that makes this with her
sister Elizabeth was just here last week in the store saying : " Feliz
Navidad. " Feliz Navidad Melanie!
4) " Los Parra;es ' Anniversarion SINGANI, On
Special for $25.99, regularl price is $35.99, I love this, again so
svelte and silky and toned, tanned, sublime, highly recommended, too
like the Pisco from Melanie. GREAT SALE here, buy some now while the
prices are so ridiculously low!
WINE From Chris & Tony : 3 Splurges :
1) Brut 2002 dry rose French Champagne from the
GREAT 2002 vintage and the GREAT PRODUCER JOSEPH PERRIER, this great
gift is On Special now for $142.99, less than a case available, come get
some now while you still can!
2) Champagne PIERRE MONCUIT 2005 Brut Millesime,
Grand Cru, Blanc de Blancs, RM : means recolant-manipulant, the highest
guage of quality, wow, stunning, from Le Mesnil sur Oger, Champagne,
France, $92.99 a bottle.
3) Grand Cuvee Des Lys, Champagne CANARD-DUCHENE, '
Charles VII ' Blanc de Blancs Brut, $72.99 : blew me away, wow, each
sip was and is magical! Love it,
AND : A Fourth :
1) Champagne PHILIPPE GONET Brut rose, from Le
Mesnil Sur Oger, $89.99, just tasted here by Chantal Gonet the owner,
signed. too as gifts for the holidays : lyrical, a vurtuosity of amazing
flavors that spread the range of highs and lows and entertain and
please so thoroughly!
TASTING TOMORROW :
COME TASTE with : 1) Sotiris Bafitis his
indigenous dry white Greek Magagouzia from ANTONOUPOLOS, $19..99, maybe
his prosecco as well?!
ALSO : Come taste with Aleks our Balkans Project owner, he will pour three :
1) Rhatsiteli 2015 dry white from Macedonia, from
STOBI, Thives, wonderful, love it, $19.99 a bottle, great with this
cold weather now.
2) KALMETT Albanian dry red, too, wonderful, love
it, earthy, pithy, perky, punchy, packed with flavors that evolve best
when paired with flavorful hearty meals!, $19.99 ...
3) TRAPA Teran dry red from Croatia, $36.49, when
you are seated and want to be uplifted and flown to touch both stars
and moon literally or only with your eyes if you prefer?!? Wonderful.
CHEERS, JOIN us, have to post this store email
now, out of time, the Calendar of Events is in last week's store email,
check it or our WEB PAGE or our FACEBOOK page, thanks again, happy
holidays ALL, TONY 12/20/2016
WHAT FOLLOWS BELOW ... is our old store email that I
wrote and published in 2010 I believe? Read and enjoy it if you have the
time, cheers, thanks for everything, you all are the very best ever!
TONY 12/20/201
RECEIVING WINE/PLUM WINE /MALBECS GALORE...
'N MORE ALL DAY TODAY as we get ready for the
last week before Christmas as you all get off work and begin to panic
and do some of your last-minute shopping for all those " MUST-HAVES "
that will set the moment and the mood for everything to be as perfect as
they can be with as many of your family members as happy as they can
possibly be! It's fun, it's frenetic and all is a constant motion of
activity with highs and lows and very few in-betweens as people rush in
with requests for wines from Lebanon, for example : Jane just returned
and forgot to bring a bottle back with her so I sold her a bottle of the
CHATEAU MUSAR dry white for $32 a bottle. A well-dressed gentleman
named David just came by and needed or wanted a bottle of LOUIS LATOUR
Beaune red and when he told me beef was on the menu I steered him
towards some of our " new " CHATEAU TREBIAC 2005 dry red Graves 2005 (
$17.99, from a great year, too ) as well as some PEIRANO ESTATE Lodi,
California Cabernet Sauvignon ( $16.49 ) instead.
THEN THERE WAS THE AMBASSADOR that came by, Giles
for his three cases of the LAN dry Rioja Spanish red which his wife
loves and which is incredibly short supply as the Wine Spectator
magazine just put on their 100 Best Wines Of 2010 issue. We saved it all
for him as he has been a huge supporter of this wine now for years! We
had another gentleman wearing a yamaka that needed two nice bottles for
$50 each, one for his boss that is French and another person, too. He
bought a bottle of the dry red burgundy Nuits-Sainte-Georges 1er Cru "
Aux Thorey " 2006 On Special for $49.99 ( regularly $69.99 ) from Robert
Kacher along with a bottle of the Amarone Della Valpolicella LA
GIARETTA Classico 2006 ($49.99 ). He liked it when I told him that I had
sat at the table with the owner and his wife and budding ten-year old
girl artist for three hours tasting their wines, eating their bread and
food and finally looking at this ten-year-old daughter's art that I
quite liked. It was a grand way for me a fellow artist to enjoy a
moment.
THERE WAS ALSO ANOTHER GENTLEMAN who loves the
TERRA ANDINA Carmenere Chile ( $9.99 ) that had to special order for him
to deliver tomorrow along with two bottles of champagne : the PASCAL
DOQUET ( recoltant-manipulant ) Blanc de blancs Chardonnay ( On Special
for $39.99 , reg: $59.99 ) which we still have a few bottles; and the
R.H. COUTIER Grand Cru from Ambonnay, Champagne ( $49.99 ). He wanted
some variety and these are different enough to please him I feel quite
sure.
ANOTHER GENTLEMAN JUST WAS HERE WITH A BOTTLE of
the Veuve Clicquot in his hand and he needed another $3o bottle for a
gift and I told him about the fabulous 2007 ( great vintage ) of the La
Rosine Syrah ( from Michel & Stephane OGIER ) northern Rhone Cornas
fame. It's On Special for $29.99 and represents a great wine to drink
with a meal or age for another several years when it will be truly
magnificent.
THIS HAS BEEN THE WAY THE DAY HAS GONE ALONG ... a
lady at the Kennedy Warren needing to stock up with some magnums of our
Picpoul de Pinet dry white from France's southwest region, as well as
some of the MANOIR DU CARRA Beaujolais Nouveau for $9.99, some Italian
Piemonte Pinot Noir from MONTE DEGLI ANGELI 2009 ( $9.99 ) from the
Monferrato region - a ridiculously-low price for this wine! What a value
...
JUST SOLD SOME RED DUBONNET( $11.99 ) to be
enjoyed " on the rocks " and some EVAN WILLIAMS bourbon ( On Special for
$12.99 ) to be mixed with some apple cider to make a fun, local
concoction for the holidays ...
A LOVELY LADY FROM LONDON is returning to pick up
some of our " new " 2005 CHATEAU TREBIAC dry red Bordeaux from the
Graves region of France ( $17.99 ) because I do not have any more of the
2004 Italian Tuscan Syrah that U ran a special for at $15.99 a bottle.
She shared it with Graham one of our favorite customers and it ruined
for them the wine that they ordered afterward at Dino restaurant she
told me. Sorry that I am sold-out! Oh well .... she will like the 2005
dry red Graves from 2005 which is a great vintage in Bordeaux.
THE HOLIDAYS ARE FUN, FUN, FUN... when I got here I addressed a letter to my brother and then rushed across to our Cleveland Park Post Office to send it along with two other X'Mas letters to my family as well as a package. I stood in line and waited patiently for about twenty or so minutes and got everything accomplished nicely and bumped into a good customer as I way paying ... nice ...
IT'S A FAVORITE, said one of our regular female
customers as she clutched a bottle of the Veuve Clicquot and the minute I
heard her say that I said no more as that was what she wanted and I
wanted her to leave with what would make her happy and not an
experimental bottle this time. Sometimes it's important to back off and
not try and talk people out of what they came for. Bruce Springsteen is
singing a Christmas song now " Santa Claus is coming to town ... " he's
singing with a growl like the old Joe Cocker songs ... nice, I rather
like it..
SOMEONE JUST ASKED ME FOR A MODEST Pinot Grigio and I showed him the STELLA That we sell from the Veneto region I believe of Italy for $9 I believe and said that it packs extra flavor and taste and for that price really offers a whole lot for so little money. He took a bottle with him to the register...
THEN THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN LOOKING for Belgium's
the Palm beer and he bought two six packs with a couple of bottles of
the LOOSE END GSM ( On Special for $13.99 ) as well as the HOPE Hunter
Valley Shiraz $13.49 , " Pink Awareness "Breast- Cancer Hunter Valley
Australian dry red - and two bottles of the LA CABOTTE " Colline " Cotes
Du Rhone 2009 ( $16.99 ) to go along with some lentil soup and them
heartier fare after the soup - all flavorful and distinct. Oh, the
heartier fare is some venison! Cheers, it's been this was all day long
here on Monday, December 20th, 2010 as I type and try and stock the
shelves and type this email which I will end up sending tomorrow around
noon I believe to you all ...
I JUST HAD A YOUNG COUPLE come through asking for
something that sounded like Mascarella and so I said : " Masciarelli ? "
and showed them the bottle of the Montepulciano D'Abruzzo ( $13.49 ) .
He took it and looked at it, studied it. The dark-haired foreigner then
said : " " Bigger ? " to which the young blond said : " A larger bottle "
and so I walked them over to the magnum section and showed them a
bottle of the Saint Antonio Montepulciano D'Abruzzo that we sell at
$13.99 a bottle. He said : " I drink a whole bottle " with a weak smile.
I handed them the bottle and they walked away and the young American
blond said : Thank you " as they headed towards the register.
I FORGOT THAT JENNIFER that used to be in the
business and the bartender at Bardeo came in with a friend wanting to
buy a good Pinot Noir from Oregon. We hashed it out the three of us for
quite awhile and finally settles on the PONZI Vineyards Pinot Noir 2007 (
$38.49 ) from the Willamette Valley. This has tradition and is classic
and should do the job more than admirably.
WE HAD TWO REQUESTS within a half an hour for a
vanilla liqueur and that surprised both Ravi and me as we have had very
few of those in quite awhile...
THIS MORNING, TUESDAY LEON came here in search of
a blackberry liqueur to put on his fresh blackberries and so DEKUYPER.
He also bought some of the MANOIR DU CARRA Beaujolais Nouveau 2010 (
$9.99 ) that is showing really well still ( we still have some in stock
for you all ). Leon also bought some of the popular APERITIVO COCCHI
AMERICANO ($16.99 ) that has a whole lot written about it recently. He
also purchased some of the LANDY Cognac VS ( $21.99 ) to give as gifts
to people in his building. Thanks Leon for all your business over the
years, you're the best!
WE JUST RECEIVED SOME MOSCATO, everyone wants
Moscato these days and so for value and taste and all that flavor of
apricots, peaches , nectarines we have the UMBERTO FIORI Moscato D'Asti
( $11.99 ) from the Piemonte region of Italy where it so famous : and
$11.99 is a great deal at this price. We bought extra so that we will
have plenty we hope to meet all of your needs.
SO : THAT'S HOW IT WENT and will continue to go
through New Year's I am sure. That's okay : this is the way it should be
and it makes everything so much fun and exciting and a true pleasure
for us all to be here and be able to help you and make your holidays all
that much more special and meaningful, war, cozy and filled with cheer
...
I WALKED MY TERRIER DOG AGAIN this morning and
was delighted to look up again through the woods and see the bright orb
of sunshine shining brightly down on the two of us. Funny, I was looking
up at the sun and my dog was sniffing all around at the ground : we
must have been a sight : me with eyes closed and a big smile on my face
as I tried to absorb the sunshine saying to myself : " heal Sidney that
has cancer, and make all my family healthy and keep us sound of mind and
alive ... " with my dog nosing around through the dried leaves and the
branches, occasionally hearing something and tugging as if another
animal was close like a deer or red fox ... I felt good about the
brightness and the warmth of the sunshine and I know that this small act
of mine how ludicrous it must seem will be positive and helpful.
OUR WEEK'S TASTINGS :
WEDNESDAY, December 22nd, 2010 : ( 5-8PM ) : We
have our new Frederick Wildman rep Nancy coming to taste some of the
CROONER GRUNER VELTLINER ( $11.99 ) to taste it along with Paul Jaboulet
dry red Cotes Du Rhone Parallel 45 I believe.
FRIDAY, December 24th, 2010 ( 5-8PM ) : We are
on the phone right now with Estebe from Spain that will be here to try
two Spanish reds made mostly with the Tempranillo grape From Toro, as
well as a sparkling " new " cava to us as well as the MANIA dry white
Spanish 2009 Verdejo from Rueda. It's brand-spanking new and we are
excited to have it. This will be a great tasting with Estebe and I think
you will all enjoy his energy, youth and enthusiasm. He's charming and
it will be great to have him back again tasting here with you all.
SATURDAY, December 25th, 2010 : HAPPY HOLIDAYS
and HAPPY TASTING AT YOUR HOMES! Thanks for all your business, we toast
you all here. May your holidays be merry and filled with mirth cheer and
good will.
WEDNESDAY, December 29th, 2010 ( 5-8PM ) We have sommelier and importer Andrew Stover back to taste bubblies and fun wines made in the U.S. with you all to help get ready for the holidays and the New Year! Andrew is quite the character and filled with knowledge, information, insight, perspective and enthusiasm about all of the United States and all the wines that are available to us here if we can only find them to enjoy with family and friends.
FRIDAY, December 31st, 2010 ( 5-8 PM ) : We
have Chris of Cobblestone Imports here to taste some of his excellent
bubbly selections. We will decide on those in the next day or so. So
call us at : 202-363-4265 for updates. It's a bit crazy so we are
piecing things together as we go and are pretty excited about it all.
THANKS AGAIN, for the Millionth Time for all your
support and belief in us and the Cleveland Park neighborhood and
community. It's great to be a part of all of this, really it is.
I AM SORRY NOT TO HAVE WRITTEN MORE ON HANUKKAH
and all that it means and the eight days of giving : that was my mistake
and I apologize for this, really I do. I hope that everyone enjoyed
Hanukkah as we are about to celebrate Christmas and Kwanzaa and New
Year's , of course! CHEERS!!!
SHOP NOW! COME BY BEFORE THIS Weekend's Snow!
It's coming, our weekend will be white and beautiful and it may be
slippery and icy and I recommend you buy now as it may be difficult with
the snow. Anyway, it's nicer to sit back and be sipping and relaxing
while the snow falls.
SO CALL US, WE WILL DELIVER here and outside the store, we always try our best.
SANTOS, RAVI, CHRIS, VED, SOFREDO, NELSON and TONY
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
TWO Anthony Quinn-Written Cleveland Park Wine & Spirits' Tuesday Weekly Store Emails On Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Too : Celebrate, Enjoy, Let Us Help You, Taste Greek & Balkan Wines Here Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 5-8PM< Free Wine-Tasting, Join Us!
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