I JUST CAME into work on a bably blue skies and puffy white clouds, brrrrr, brisk highway this Tuesday morning!
WE ARE STILL CELEBRATING here Female Appreciation month at
Cleveland Park Wines and Spirits. Glad to do this : something positive
that I think we can all unite over, no matter what political party we
support.
WE HAVE TWO ' Big-Events ' This Week :
TOMORROW, Wednesday,January 25th, 2017 : 5:30-8:30PM, Free-Tastings both -
CANS & BOTTLES Of ...
BEER Big-Theme Tasting
Tomorrow! 1/25 5:30-8:30PM
With John, Shane, Polly, Santos
FREE - JOIN US :
Santos has invited three groups to come pour their beer
selections, that will mean as many as 20 beers for you all to try here
and see how they compare with your tastebuds, side-by-side.
John will pour the 4 from THREE NOTCHD Brewing company, all of
them in cans, All $10.99 a 6-pack, 1) 40 Mile IPA ... 2) Hydrolian Red
... 3) Jesse's Girl American Ale, ... and the ... 4) The Ghost APA
American Amber Ale , and last : ... 5) Ace's High American Pale Ale ...
YES!!!
Try them all on for size, fit and feel!
You be the judges.
You will meet John, ...
Shane, too ... pouring the :
Devil's Backbone Brewery selections ..,
Shane works at the brewery, and will be pouring the
Vienna lager,
the Eight-Point lager,
and the Striped Base Pale Ale, too )
AND Molly of NEW BELGIUM Brewery will be pouring four, they will
all have some favorites as well as some ' new and exciting, seasonal '
beers, too. Molly will taste the ' new ' Tarttastic ', as well as the '
Bohemian style Pilsner '.
I am leaving most of this to be a real surprise for you all.
You will come and taste and see what you all think, a serendipitous,
spontaneous ale/ beer tasting, ...
the very FIRST BIG-THEME Beer-Tasting here!
JOIN US, let's start a new and exciting tradition here!
ALSO : We have Richard, one of the two principles at MOSHIN
VINEYARDS coming to pour a selection of five of their excellent Russian
River Valley & Dry Creek Valley California wines :
TWO under the WESTSIDE CROSSING label, both from the Russian River Valley, Sonoma County appelations :
1) Chardonnay 2015. $27.49, with 14.1% alcohol is distinct, very vibrant and a lively taste to please many.
2) Pinot Noir 2014, $27.49, with 14.1% alcohol is also a
really well-balanced, focused taste to please and to satisfy many that
like a more refined, elegant Pinot Noir taste.
THREE From MOSHIN :
ONE Dry White -
1) 2014 Sauvignon Blanc from the ' Larrick Vineyard ' Dry
Creek Valley, Sonoma County, On Special for $32.99 a bottle. Some extra
mouth-feel, some more range from the high to the low registers of taste,
extra hang-time and finish in the mid palate and the delightful final
ahhhh swallow! Always have really liked the Sauv. Blanc!
TWO Dry Reds -
1) 2012 Vineyards 2012 Pinot Noir Estate ( Estate Grown
& Bottled ), $49.49 a bottle , with the 20% off the price is $39.59 -
get a bottle signed as a special gift ) - a very special Pinot Noir
that is fruit-forward, treu to the soil, the weather, the vagaries of
the 2012 vintage that was excellent, this is so lovely and satiny on the
palate, and soaks seemlessly into one's palate, too!
2) 2012 Zinfandel ' Carreras Vineyard ' Dry Creek Valley,
Sonoma County, $39.99, with 14.9% alcohol. A fuller, more round and
filling flurry and flash and flush, slush, mmmmmmm, great accents of
spice and mineral that prick and poke and stoke our internals fires into
a reverie of pleasures that give us the ride of our lives to a
delightful finish to meal and good-tidings, conversations, love and
more.
WHAT I THINK about these MOSHIN Vineyard wines as a whole is
that they are always distinct, filled with tremendous character,
personality , charm, and where strengths and flaws work together to
produce the purest, most true and tasty and original flavors that a
vintage with weather and soil, water, or lack of it, hail, or lack of
it, sunshine or lack of it all produce grapes that are barely touched by
human hands, thus producing one of the purest wine liquid expressions
possible. Bravo!
FEELING QUITE INSPIRED this morning, so much positive energy came
to the Washington DC metropolitan region as well as to many other cities
in the U.S., as well as in the world. It was great to be able to
witness so much of this energy and feeling good because everyone came
together this weekend to show their faces, use their voices, and show
solidarity.
... AND an update on last week ...
ON WEDNESDAY we had our monthly Big-Theme Wine-Tasting with plenty
of excitement still over Martin Luther King's birthday celebration and
the upcoming Inaugural weekend events.
SOME PEOPLE WERE leaving town, others were arriving and cutomers of
ours like Karen and Mary Kay were either picking them up or gettting
ready for their visiting guests. Too much to keep track of, it was
overwhelming!
WEDNESDAY EVENING here with six female wine pros and one female
wine distiller, local form D.C.'s Ivy City Jos. A. MAGNUS, each pouring
four of their favorites : 28 in all, we had 100 or more people join us
and celebrate all the women in our lives and all that they have given us
and added to the tapestries of our lives. So much positive cheer and
lively spirits, joy, warmth, appreciation, thanks, feeling like a true
community!
AND TO SEE ' WAKE UP LITTLE SUZIE'S window display of wrutten
comments to President Barrack Obama was truly inspiring. So many of you
stopped and looked and read many of these messages. I loved watching as I
took pictuures to record this historic, meaningful moment of our
history, city, neighborhood.
OF COURSE OUR DOORS were open here at Cleveland Park Wine and
Spirits to welcome you and be like a second home to you all. We hope we
were and that you felt we were, that was our objective.
PINK, the many shades of pink were the dominant colors of the
weekend, here in Cleveland Park, and even later on Saturday evening when
I went to a fantastic dinner on 14th street, N.W. at " Doi Moi " with
wine owner, maker Christian Stahl of his owne STAHL Franken, German
winery, and Chris Bartha.
PINK here and there was all around, people, walking back and
forth, some coming in to buy here at the store, some coming to have
dinner. Inspiring all, and Chef Sasha came out many times to taste many
of his dishes with us. He is an incredible chef that comes from the
Ukraine, I highly recommend you try his various dishes. They, too like
the women and men that came to Washington D.C. to be seen and heard and
counted, alive, ... both they and the food were bright, diverse,
animated, different, unique and special!
WE STARTED HERE on Wednesday 100+ strong and grew wo more than a
half a million, and that is only here in Washington D.C.! Wonderful.
SO HERE ARE SOME of the highlights of last week, and some of this
week's to anticipate as we continue to celebrate women in January. I was
thinking it would only be a month's celebration, but I feel more
strongly than ever that we will now extend our women's appreciation
month to a whole year's appreciation!
CAN YOU ALL LIVE with a whole year of rose wines, and more small
bottles like the 187ml bottles, or the smaller cans. too that so many
women find both cute and practical, and where there is little or no
guilt that they feel when enjoying these smaller quantities?
I HAVE OFTEN HEARD WOMEN say to me : " My boyfriend ( husband )
does not like sparkling wine and so I do not feel as guilty when I open
and enjoy this, now waste." I can appreciate that.
AS A RESULT HERE are some to mention now :
CANS :
1) Red Sangria gently sparkling premium wine product from PAMPELONNE, $2.79 for " Joie de Vivre - Joy To Live ", 250ml can.
2) Pinot Noir French Pays D'Oc 2015 from MARIS, $5.49, fresh,
bright, tasty, with an accent of raspberry?!? I think so, I like it,
made with organic grapes.Also a 250ml can.
BOTTLES :
TWO Dry Rose 187ml bottles -
1) Le Grand COURTAGE French Grande Cuvee Brut rose, On
Spoecial for $7.49 , a soft. refreshing, touch of a zip and bit of a
bite at first, then silk and a flourish of flesh-grape taste! Mmmm. Very
popular.
2) Secco Pinot Noir from HILLINGER with a delicate blush of
color, a lovely lilting, lullaby taste and flavor that charms and
pleases, too!
... stay-tuned for the last three next week! Running out of time. Have to post this soon.
ALSO On The Weekend we will be tasting :
Friday, January 27th, 2017 ( 5-8PM ) : We have Narayan here pouring
some wine selections, as well as JoAnn of the TWIN VALLEY Maryland
distillery pouring up to five different spirits that will include Black
Cup Of Joe liqueur that I tried and liked, the Rye that was sooo unique (
reminded me of Slivovitz, the Raven mostly rye blend, the ' new ' Grand
Thoroughbread Single Cask Whiskey, Rockville, MD, On Special for $35.99
a bottle, ... and the 1812 Maryland Bourbon Whiskey, On Special for
$35.99 a bottle, ... what a treat, JOIN US for both tastings! FREE both.
Saturday, January 28th, 2017 ( 2-6PM ) : We have Diana Richer of
G&B Importers here to try the FABulous KARAS wines of Armenia , the
1) Red 2014, $17.99, ... 2) White dry, 2014, $15.49, ... and we will
also include a line of wines from Argentina, too. More on that soon.
Join us, taste, see what you all think!
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING , you all are the best, we believe in you. "
You got real potential ... " said Julia Roberts to her female co-worker
in the movie PRETTY WOMAN. Everyone has potential, everyone deserves a
chance to develop, show, share and be all that they can be, ... cheers,
TONY 1/24/2017
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