MAKE MORE GREAT CHOICES @ CLEVELAND PARK as we move forward, proudly, purposefully, with love and compassion, commitment, hard work that yields to hard play, too!
Proud to be here, to be together, with you , here in our
nation's capitol as we navigate whatever comes our way, we are spirited,
we are brave, we can make it work, we must, we have many liquid spirits
to help where they may, as well as conversational spirits in dialogue
and laughter, mirth, joy, ... community.
SO : what we have this month is all about great value for you,
spirits that we sell that do not break the bank anymore than it is
already broken. We want everyone's personal bank to rally and grow , and
we can help you with that be focusing on ways to stretch your dollar.
IN BEER we have from Santos Rivera :
1) Irish Stout from O'HARA'S , a full-bodied luxuriously
smooth stout with a discernable roast bite. On Special for $9.99 a
4-pack of 12-ounce bottles, crafted in Ireland, with a lovely low 4.3%
alcohol by volume. What a treat!
TWO From WEHENSTEPHANER, Bavaria :
1) Hefe Weissbier Bavarian Style, premium Bavaricum, The
World's Oldest Brewery, On Special for $3.99 a One Pint, 9 Fluid Ounce
bottle, , 500ml, with 5.4% alcohol by volume, ... AND ...
2) Hefeweissbier Dunkel, On Special for $3.99 for a 500ml
bottle, Premium Bavaricum, with 5.3% alcohol by volume : BOTH are '
steals ', fine values that overdeliver for the money : and perfect for
this cold weather, too!
ONE From Brazil : A ' favorite ' of mine:
1) Light & Dark / Smooth As Silk , from XINGU Black beer,
On Special for $11.99 a 6-pack of 12-ounce bottles. What I love about
this is the creamy smmoth taste, the richness, the fullness, but not the
bite, perfect for me, so far I have had no one come back telling me
anything negative about it, and I have recommended it for a very very
long time. Come try it, perfect to mask and hide this cold and damp now.
NOTE : Went with my wife and daughter to see the show WICKED
last Thursday at the Kennedy Center and I have never seen a '
tour-de-force ' like this from lighting, staging, dancing, singing,
choreography : like the piece in the movie ' White Christmas called
CHOREOGRAPHY I think, with Danny Kaye dancing, modernised, of our times,
and splendid, truely splendid indeed, bravo! It must have taken
hundreds if not thousands of really imaginative, creative souls, and the
same amount of hours, too! Well worth it!
LIQUEURS / LIQUORS From Jagir :
TWO Liqueurs From Us :
1) Irish Cream Liqueur made with the finest single malt Irish
whiskey, BRADY'S, On Special for $12.99 a bottle. I take it home for my
wife and daughter, and they both tell me that instead of wine they are
drinking Bailey's. To me that tells me that, them knowing both, having
enjoyed both, that they do not taste or notice any difference, and
BAILEY'S is $28.99 a bottle. I have recommended it so far and have only
positive responses so far, love that! Thank you Eddie Ofori for
introducing it to me years ago.
2) " Drink me " announces the necker on this bottle of JACKSON
MORGAN, a southern cream Salted-Caramel liqueur ( made with Tennessee
Whiskey ), On Special for $23.99 a bottle, and tasted here last week by
Andrius Miliunas our local fine rep from CRAFT Wine & Spirits LLC.
With 15% alcohol by volume, this is quite smooth, quite warming and
tasty, and perfect for this colder, damper weather, Try some.
Thanks Andrius. Go to :
www.craftws.com
for more info. Here is a ' shout out! ' for the fine work of Andrius,
and the company that employs him : reward your fine salespeople for
their hard efforts, that makes all the difference to us in our retail
environment, it helps us do our jobs better. Thanks Andrius, happy New
Year!
FIVE Liquors To Consider :
1) Tequila Reposado, made/ hecho in Mexico, Hand-harvested,
100% Blue Agave, from El JIMADOR, On Special for $19.99 a bottle. This
is smooth and tasty, and a ridiculous price, too! This has sold very
well here, everyone has really liked it.
2) Spirit Whisky , ROYAL CHALLENGE : a blend of rare scotch,
select grain and matured indian malts, On Special for $19.99 abottle,
made in India, : ' new and very exciting ', great value, too!
3) Irish Whiskey ' Classic Blend ' triple-distilled, from
CLONTARF 1014, On Special for $24.99 a bottle, ... gently aged in
Bourbon barrels, a flavorful, bright, intense fire and flame and roast
and roar that reminds me of an Armagnac over a Cognac, I like the
persistent cajoling burn here! One of my favorite ' values ' here in the
store. Thanks again to Eddie Ofori for introducing me to this years
ago.
4) ' Blue Ice ' Handcrafted American Potato vodka ( Gluten
Free ), $19,99 a bottle, with 40% alcohol by volume, a cool-kool blue
bottle with a rippled back, too. It is so smooth, so silky, so easy to
sip, lovely. When we first tasted it out the tasting went less than an
hour becasue literally everyone that tasted it bought a bottle, and we
immediately had to order more. A success then that follows through even
now with the great success of TITO'S which is made from corn, not
potato. Try this potato spirit on for size, fit and feel on your palate!
5) ' Alaska Outlaw ' Whiskey, produced and bottled by ALASKA
Distillery, from Wasilla, Alaska, $42.99, with 40% alcohol, this has
aged so brilliantly, so much time and care taken, and this extra time in
the bottle has delightfully mellowed and matured this whiskey from the
wilds of Alaska, the purety, the pristine waters, the ice and the snow,
the imprint of so many wonderful creatures that roam wild and free and
brave and fresh and soooo alive! Try some now, perfect for this winter's
cold, wet and dampness now.
WINE From Chris & Tony : 3 Sets Of 3 :
Three ' Value ' Dry Wines :
1) SLENT Chenin Blanc/ Sauvignon Blanc from Ayama, South
Africa , $11.99 a bottle, 77% Chenin, 33% Sauvignon Blanc, this wine has
body, character, freshness, brightness, zip and is ' a steal ' for this
price, try some with and without food, lovely. Screw cap , easy to open
and to seal.
2) Zweigelt fruit-forward, unoaked dry red indigenous grape
variety from Austria, made and bottled by HUGL Weine, $13.49 a bottle, ,
for a full liter, chill it slightly for thirty-forty minutes and enjoy
the youthful brimming gustatory quality here within, Also a screw cap,
so easy to open, serve and seal later.
3) " All In " Claret from Alexander Valley, from MURPHY-GOODE
in Sonoma, On Special for $14.99 a bottle, a blend of the Bordeaux
French grapes : 42% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Petit Verdot,
and 1% Cabernet Franc. From Santa Rosa, it is ALL about the Cabernet
Franc, it takes very little added to taste it!
What a great value, too, from Alexander Valley to get this
quality?!? And it comes from a very challenging year, too. Some of the
best California reds I have had recently, that are ready to drink and
enjoy now, with character, grip, grit, flavor and honest taste have come
from the 2011 vintage.
Come get some of this ' All In " and see what your tastebuds taste?!? Tasty indeed.
THREE Fruity / Off-Dry Wines Of Value :
1) Weinkeller Erbach 2014 liters of floral, off-dry, bright,
no bite, just pure delight to sip on it's own, or combine with food,
too. Great value at $11.99 for a full liter of wine, from Germany's
Rheingau region, with 10.5% alcohol by volume.
2) ' New Age ' off-dry red from VALENTIN-BIANCHI in Argentina,
San Rafael, Mendoza, ... with onlt 6% alcohol by volume, this at $10.99
is wonderfully off-dry, a real treat to those that want all-fruit, no
tannins, no bite, no astringency in the taste.
3) Brauneberger Juffer Riesling- Kabinett, 2013, from
Germany's Mosel region, On Special for $16.99 a bottle, this a
sumptuous, delightful, rich and bright, ebulent, right, cascading,
lulling, rocking, rauchous trip to please the palate, all six senses,
yes, prost!
THREE ' Splurge- Value ' Wines -
1) 2012 Pinot Noir ' Champ de Reves ' from California's
Anderson Valley, On Special for $28.99 a bottle, regularly $32.99, a
more earthy, rustic, gutsy, raw and radiant ruby-clear-clairvoyant-too
Pinot?!? The sixties, hippies, flower children, dreams and living free
and easy, making dreams come tru, a tasty Pinot Noir to enjoy now with a
meal! Come see what your taste buds taste?!?
2) 2011 Barolo 100% Nebbiolo from Italy's Piemonte region,
from the CASA E. di MIRAFIORI, $45.99 a bottle. Wow, I tasted this
awhile back with our local rep Ronnie Miller and I loved it, A DOCG
wine, imported by @DSWE @DomaineSelectWineEstates ... check them out. I
remember doing a bang-up job with the 2005 vintage, what a wine, what a
steal, just like this 2011! A special treat, old-world style.
3) ' Clos Apalta ' Estate-Bottled 2009 , a limited release,
too from LAPOSTOLLE in Chile's Colchagua Valley, from the Apalta
vineyard, with vines 60 years of age, non-irrigated vineyard,, Rappel
Valley, Michel Rolland is the oenologue from Bordeaux, France, a wine to
age slowly, gracefully, with finesse, breed.
On Special for $94.99, regularly $110.99, we have worked well now
with this fine splurge of a Bordeaux-style red since the 2006 vintage,
following with the 2008, and now well into the 2009 that is aging
gracefully, slowly as it should.
No need to rush this, buy some, save it for a really special moment
- NOW !!!!!! D+Serve with food, have the two, the wine and the food '
flesh one another ' fully out of their skins and onto your tongues and
palate!
I WANT TO THANK all our reps that came in and supported us in these
last holiday times. Your help and time and efforts spent here with us
and our customers was greatly appreciated and will not go unnoticed.
Thank you very much.
WEEK'S TASTINGS : Looks like so far Santos, Chris and I will have
to conduct any tastings this week. So stay-tuned for more updates as we
pull ourselves together.
AM THINKING about doing an all-pink/ all-female tasting soon to
celebrate all females for their invaluable contributions to the fabric ,
soul, heart, guts, intelligence, beauty that we all live, that we all
come together to make work, that will probably be our Big-Theme
Wine-Tasting this month, looking at either Wednesday January 11th or
18th to do this : sparkling wines, still wines, dry and off-dry and
sweet, all sizes, including the samll 187ml bottle size!
Will start work on this tomorrow, so stay-tuned for more as we make
this our focus of January, community, that invaluable female
contribution, the will and desire and need to move forward, to prosper,
to create, to nurture, to not be bullied, to be respected for who they,
for who we all are!
Been working on this and have made some great calls to get this set :
asking our female reps for their suggestions, of what they would like to
pour? They all love the idea, are thrilled to be a part of this
tasting, and so we will work something out that will be grand for the
11th of this month, a Wednesday from 5:30-8:30PM.
Hope you can all join us, celebrate the incredible contribution of
our females to the special, wonderful, exciting, warm and special fabric
of our lives : YES!
THANK YOU ALL for your great support, it has been grand so far, and
we will continue to grow and evolve and unify and work together for all
of our greater good! We all work hard, we deserve to see and enjoy the
fruits of all our efforst. We can , we will, we must! Cheers, TONY
HAPPY NEW YEAR. I do not want to be as cynical as our good family
friend MJ that said : Wishing you a Happy New Year, at least for the
first nineteen days. "
WE / I wish you happy New Year for all of our days and nights, all
of our lives, for however long they may be, happy new year, may it be
what you all deserve and have worked hard for for all your years!
1/3/2017
WHAT FOLLOWS BELOW is an old store email I wrote and posted on
January 9th, 2009, read and enjoy it, and check it out for current
availability and vintages and pricing? Cheers. Thanks again.
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Breakfast, pulling myself together, getting organized for this busy day, cheers all, working on our Big-Theme, supporting women, all females at our @clevelandparkwines Wednesday wine-tasting January 18th, 2017 5:30-8:30pm 24 wines poured, four each by six female wine professionals, their voices that they like, that they want to pour, showing support and solidarity to all females in a difficult time, free wine-tasting, join us. Loved all the references last night in The Golden Hlobes awards,
Loved @MerylStreep, welcome her and any others there to come and join us, show their support and solidarity. I invite, too @michelleobama and @barackobama to come as well, solidarity for all, progress for us all, cheers , thank you all females for enriching our lives!We are there with you, we will not be bullied, we will not be silenced, we will work to make America once again the United States of America. Not divided.
#ApPreSheHerAllThemFemalesYESSI #WomenGoodMenAmenYES #WoAmenYES!
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It is me, Tony tasting here today, join me, cheers! Saturday January 7th, 2017 , tasting going on now!
Braving the elements this Saturday January :th, 2017 with Luke, Bernie, Monika and Seth! Brrrrr, cheers!
Join us all month long here to give thanks and to celebrate all the fine women in our lives that enrich them immeasurably! Cheers, tonight four wines picked by Franceen and Christina, from . Argentina and from Italy, 5-8pm, ...
#WoamenYES!
January - we have named January as our month for female, celebrating them, and all that they add to the fabrics of our lives and make it all wonderful!
#JanuaryIsFemaleMonthOfTheYear!
January 20th, 2017 we are calling :
#January20th2017IsFemaleDayOfThe Year!
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AND :
#woamenYES! We say ' amen ' to women, yes to women!
ALSO :
#femalesYES! ... cheers, join us all month long to celebrate here, and on ...
WED. January 18th, 2017 5:30-8:30PM we have six wine expersts, all females, coming to pour their selections that were picked expecially to please women! Free, Join us, lend your support to ours!
Thank you all, you are the very best, we appreciate all that you do, and support you in every way that we can! Cheers,
Happy New Year, too : getting off to a great start, lots ahead, lots to deal with.
JAN4
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We love all the invaluable contributions that women add to our spirits, wine, beer, cider, liquors, liqueurs world! Come celebrate that here on Wednesday, January 18th, 2017 from 5:30-9:30PM! Cheers!
Celebrating on Wednesday, January 18th, 2017 5:30-8:30PM the female contributions to the wonderful enriched fabrics of our lives, with 20-24 wines to taste, join us, wines poured by our female reps, chose by them for females to thoroughly enjoy, everyone welcome to come be a part of this with us, cheers, thanks ladies, you are grand, we love you all.
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