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WOW, MARDI GRAS Fat TUESDAY has passed already & we get ready here for marie of bordeaux, france to taste her fabulous red bordeaux selections, with you all as we celebrate international women's day wed. march 8th, 2017 ...
5-8pm, free wine-tasting, ...
join us, everyone always welcome!
let's make some great noise ..
music, sounds theater, ...
plays, spectacles, cultural displays, ...
family and home appreciation ...
for all you incredibly essential, invaluable, inteligent, skilled, mothers, vounteers, business women !
we love you all, thanks for everything that you do to enrich the fabrics of our intense, complicated, fast-paced lives today!
TODAY IS BEAUTIFUL and we are all so fortunate to have this warmer,
more comfortable weather to celebrate today and tomorrow, what good
fortune for us all, as it is in the sixties now.
THE BORDEAUX WINES you taste with Marie will be some special
Bordeaux wines from Saint-Emilion, Pauillac, Haut Medoc, Fronsac, and
Margaux, yes! Some great wines to taste now and you can enjoy them all
with food now and then again on the weekend when temperatures drop and
we may have either more rain or even some snow?!?
TO CELEBRATE we will taste :
1) Chateau Grand Le Queyrons 2011, Bordeaux, a Cabernet and Merlot
blend that is remarkable in flavor and brightness, a lovely treat to
enjoy everyday at $12.99 a bottle, hard not to fall right in love with
this balanced expression from a more angular, spicy and earthy year that
is bestter-suited for a meal, though this wine is showing beautifully
now, and may be enjoyed thoroughly with or without food!
2) Chateau Beausejour, Fronsac, 2013 : fleshier, brighter, more
weight and mouth-feel, really enjoyed the wine earlier with Marie and
Narayan! A Treat, $18.49 a bottle! Great deal, classic food Bordeaux
with balance and a touch of fire and flame, too.
3) Chateau Rocher Lideyre, Castillon Cotes de Bordeaux,, 2008 , an
amzing wine to thoroughly enjoy now. Plenty of bottle-age, some extra
flesh and layers of flavor to buffer, soothe and please our senses, an
insane deal at $19.99 a bottle, only $16.00 with the twenty percent we
take off the bottle on Wednesday's wine discounts here!
4) Chateau Abelyce, Saint-Emilion 2010 , $44.49 a bottle, another
winner that is from a great year and made from 100% Merlot. This is
really rare to find in Bordeaux that almost always mixes their grapes to
make their wines, It had more brawn, a higher level of acidity, is
refreshing and alive and a wonderful wine to enjoy with a meal as this
medium-bodied, vibrant, elegant Bordeaux will cut through many
seasonings, sauces, and more! With the 20% OFF tomorrow it will cost you
$35.59 for great food wine from a great vintage and more.
5) Chateau de Malleret, Haut Medoc, Cru Bourgeois, $38.49 ( with
tomorrow's 20% OFF this wine will cost you $30.79, and this is amazing
from the very start as the bouquet is pungent : brilliantly dirty I call
it, sublimely earthy, and yet the taste when you sip it is redolent
with so many amazing layers of flavor and taste that inspire, fire,
flame, cajole, please, pleasure and accent our sense. It blows me away
for all the brightness and fruit-developed-forward calming and
entertaining accents it holds! WOW, wow, wow, wow! Love it!
6) Chateau Lynch-Moussas , 2010 , Pauillac 5eme Grand Cru Classee,
$97.99 a bottle, an amazing treat this, hard to get much better for so
much intensity, brightness, nervously wonderful Bordeaux-grape
excitement and taste to be enjoyed with a meal, many a meal! It makes a
great gift!
TOMORROW Marie can sign any of these bottles as gifts for you to enjoy now with a meal , great friends, on vacations, whatever !
OUR WEATHER IS LIKE A YO-YO NOW, so it is hard to plan, and yet it
is fun, too and gives us some really special challenges to anticipate
and work our ways through them.and we have so much going on on Mardi
Gras/ Fat Tuesday - 2 Dinners Tonight, 2 Wine-Tastings and all is well
and cheery and bright, breezy and clear on this drop-dead gorgeous day
here in Cleveland Park. We have lots to do now to get ready for all
these evening activities that originate here at Cleveland Park Wines
& Spirits.
IT'S ALSO THE INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY TODAY! WOW! Let's hear it
for all women - they are lovely and inspire and fire and intrigue all us
mean and we are thrilled to recognize them and their multiple talents
and charms and efforts!
HEY : We Have Other Goodies for you, too :
From Santos Rivera we have : In Beer & Cider :
1) Citra Mantra India-Style Pills Lager, from OTTER CREEK Brewing
Company, Vermont, " brewed with Citra hops and 100% positive vibrations.
... Citra Mantra brewed with 100% positive vibrations, the aura of the
citra hops is elevated by clean-fermenting lager strain." On Special now
for $9.99 a 6-pack of 12-ounce bottles. They must be Beach Boys' fans,
that's the vibration I get!
2) ' Nugget Nectar " ale from the TROEGS Independent Brewing Co. is
On Special for $14.99 a bottle, a tasty blend of hops here : Nugget,
Warrior, Tomahawk, Simcoe, and Palisade. ... with 7.5% alcohol by
volume, an an IBU of 93ish! Yes on all counts, come try some, be ignited
in speaking artful soulful hops! From Hersey, PA : how about some dark
chocolate on a side plate by HERSEY'S?!? Migh be glorious combo.
3) IPA from the MANOR HILL Brewing Co., On Special for $11.99 a
6-pack of 12-ounce cans, from Ellicott City, MD, keep cold, drink
freshwith 6.8% alcohol by volume, check this IPA out for size, fit,
feel, expression, smile, grin, groan, moan, magic, mystery, myriads of
tastes, too! Family-owned, farm-brewed.
AND HEY Once Again, We Also Have :
From Jagir we have some amazing SPIRITS to share with you :
1) Civic Charcoal-Polished Vodka from Ivy City, Wash. DC, from
REPUBLIC RESTORATIVES Distilling, On Special for $27.99 a bottle, owned
by females, FABulous products made here locally, what a treat. Support
female ownership and fine-quality products and business, too! Tasty,
clean, fresh, great ' cut ' on the palate and tongue, yes!
2) ' Vigilant ' D.C. District Dry Gin, On Special for $29.99 a
bottle, a fresher, livelier, less-heavy, more tropical, refreshing
citrus-accented gin that lilts and layers and loves and lessens our
loads, made by Nicole and she knows how to make great gins having run
the Gin Joint of the New Heights restaurant for the first eight years!
3) ' Borough Bourbon ' Kentucky Straight Bourbon whiskey , French
oak finished, $51.99, Batch No. 001, this is owned by the same two women
that make the Civic Vodka, and it is as impressive as the vodka, if not
more impressive. Everyone loves it, great price, too! A warmer,
rounder, more loving, caring embracing taste that makes all our worries
and stresses melt quite literally quickly ahhhhhh away!
4) Mezcal ' Alipus ' Pink-Label Joven 100% Agave ' from Mexico, On
Special for $44.99 a 750ml bottle. I recommend this for the purity,
frankness and concentration of taste and flavors, for the label, too as
the icing on the cake with the glorious saturation of deep pink and the
word joven and SnANDRES deep blue on on the tiny upper sticker-label. I
like the designs, too on both! Top-flight products!
ALSO : We Have :
1) Appalachian Whiskey from BOAR CREEK, made by E. Wright & C.
Wallace Didtilleries, in Hillsvale, VA. $30.99 a 750ml bottle, cloudy,
tasty, flavorful, unique-distinct tastes that add to the pool of flavors
already out there, but do not duplicate them, ... a real treat : " Aged
for three weeks in a little holler down in Appalachia! Mmmmmm, so goo,
YES!
2) DR. STONER'S Smoky Herb flavored whiskey , $29.99, is thick,
redolent and dripping oozing lush ripeness, unctuousness like honey and
like pots filled to overflowing with psychadelic memories,
old-and-new-and-growing-mellowing-magical-spells that may be
enjoyed straight or blended and cut to make them blossom on our tongues
and take flight in our bellies! Mmmmm.
3) ' Phoenix ' Limited Edition Irish Whiskey from TULAMORE DEW,
with 55% high strength non-chill-filtered, $68.99, a treat with , 55%
alcohol by volume, what a treat with St. Patty's Day on Friday, March
17th! We have many fine Irish whiskies here.
NOW : On This ....
WEEK'S TASTINGS :
TONIGHT , Tuesday, March 7th, 2017 ( 5-8PM ) : We have the owner of
FINCA RIO NEGRO os Spain here to pour his one dry Gewurztraminer, 2015,
$18.99, dry, ... 992 estate-bottled, 55% Tempranillo , , 20% Syrah, 15%
Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, ...and the 2011 , $21.99, a blend
Tempranillo, 20% Syrah, 10% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, .... si si
si si si! Venga ici esta noche , degusta con nosotros!
WEDNESDAY, March 8th, 2017 5-8PM, taste six great Bordeaux red
wines with Marie and Narayan, let;s all celebrate International Women's
Day ...
THURSDAY, March 9th, 2017 , 5-8PM : We have international rep Ajai
Bhoja of his own PAUL JOHN Single Malts from India : 1) non-peeted "
Brilliant " non-cask, ... 2) Classic-cask-strength , ... 3) Peeted
Non-Cask, and the ... 4) Special Classic Peeted Cask-Strength , ... all
tasted a week ago at the bihWhisky Fest at the Marriot/ Marquis Hotel,
costing $250 and 350$ to attend, and these were appreciated by all,
everything is sold-out in the country except the small amount reserved
for our tasting here. Join us, have an experience here of a lifetime!
Free to taste these four!
FRIDAY, Come taste with Valerie of Elite Imports as we try the
great wines of Bordeaux, red and white from Joel and Sandrine Duffau of
Chateau Les Arromans and La MOtte Du Barry! 5-8PM. Dry white and reds,
too.
SATURDAY, March11th, 2017 ( 2-6PM ) : We will taste Vittorio's
incredible range of the TRE MONTI reds and whites from Romagna, Italy,
Albana whites and also Sangiovese, ... Vittorio will be in town and we
are hosting a wine-dinner with him at Piccolo's in Geirgetown on
Tuesday, March 14th, 2017. Call there for the menu and to pay, will post
it here tomorrow as soon as I get it!
THANKS For Everything, you all are the very very very BEST! Cheers, TONY
WHAT FOLLOWS BELOW is an old store email that I wrote and posted on
March 15th, 2011, way back when. Read and enjoy it if you have the
time, check for availability and also current pricing and vintages.
Cheers, TONY
I'M STARTING THE DAY OFF BEAUTIFULLY having just met again and
tasted with owner Jerome R. Quoit of Chateauneuf-Du-Pape ( tasted the
2005 DOMAINE DUCLAUX $54.99 , and the and the DOMAINE VIEUX LAZARET
2007 , $41.99 ), and some DOMAINE HOUCHART Cotes Du Provence 2006 and
2007( both $16.99 a bottle ). I liked all the wines and could see adding
both the 2006 Cotes Du Provence and the 2005 Chateau Duclaux because
they drink so well now. We will have some added here shortly as we need
some Provence wines here desperately. It was a pleasure to meet and to
taste with Jerome. I used my Flip camera and I think that I will post
them on U-Tube. He says that he has complete confidence in me. We looked
at what I shot and he really liked it so it will be podted soon. What
fun, here on Mardi Gras with a delightful Frenchman drinking really good
French wines of Provence and Chateauneuf-Du-Pape and talking about life
and love and all impulses strong, healthy, good and filled with promise
and cheer. What else could be better? Perhaps a cigar with beautiful
people around us sipping his excellent Domaine Duclaux 2005
Chateauneuf-Du-Pape ( $54.99 ) which has layers ans layers and " niveaux
" of tar, leather and tobacco and spice and dust and warmth-of-the-sun
and pith and spit and sparkle and splash -panache of course ...
stay-tuned for more info on these wines of Jerome Quiot.
BUT NOW LET'S GET BACK TO TODAY & TONIGHT : 4 Events-
TWO WINE-TASTINGS HERE with
1) Jean Marc Espinasse , owner & wine-maker at
ROUGE-BLEU of the " Dentelles " Vin De Pays De Mediterranee )2008 ( 55%
Carignan, 45% Grenache ) & the " Mistral " Cotes Du Rhone 2008 (
75% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 3% Mourvedre, 2% Roussanne ) dry red wines.
5-7PM.
2) Oded Shakked, wine-maker of LONGBOARD Vineyards in
California tasting the Sauvignon Blanc 2009, the Pinot Noir 2008, the "
Point Break Red " North Coast 2008, the Syrah Russian River Valley 2005
and the " Rochioloi Vineyard " Russian River Valley Cabernet Sauvignon,
2007.
TWO WINE-DINNERS -
1) LONGBOARD Vineyards Dinner at Ardeo with Oded Shakked, CA. $65 plus tax and gratuity. Go to : www.clevelandparkwine.com to see the full menu. Call Timothy Galvin at : 202-244-6750 for reservations.
2) ROUGE-BLEU Vineyards Dinner at Dino restaurant-ristorante
at 7:30PM. May be sold-out, call Dean and Kay to check on any available
seats. The menu is on their web page and looks delicious, too.
ASK JEAN-MARC about his American wife's delightful blog that
she writes in France called : OneFrenchWordADay? LOts of people already
know about it and follow it. Many will be here tonight in the store
before this great meal at Dino.
ALL WINES ARE ON SPECIAL TODAY at the wine-tasting and later
at the two dinners. This is a great time to taste and to save.
BEERS From Santos Rivera :
1) ABITA " Strawberry " , $8.99 a six-pack of 12-ounce bottles.
2) GREAT LAKES Brewing Company " The Dopplerock " ( On Special
for $9.99 a 4-pack, 12 oz bottles, Cleveland , Ohio, 7.8% alc. by
volume, ) is " Round and Malty ... dopplebock lager that is German for
double bock ...
LIQUORS From Ravinder Sharma ( back from India! ) :
1) CAP ROCK Organic Gin ( $32.99, 41% alc. by volume, from Hotschkiss, Colorado, www.peakspirits.com ) is getting a lot of really good press these days.
2) KNOB CREEK Aged 9 Years Single Barrel Reserve Kentucky
Straight Bourbon Whiskey ( On Special for $39.99, 60% alc. by volume,
120 proof ) is brand new and really exciting!
3) DAMRAK, Imported Amsterdam Original Gin ( $20.99 , 750ml
bottle ) is also brand new and really exciting. ( the old Grolsch bottle
- reusable cap seal - fun ).
4) ERISTOFF Premium Vodka - triple distilled ( 100% pure grain
vodka, ) is a " new " imported vodka from France. What a great price
for a 1.75ml bottle of vodka!
VERY SPECIAL Wine-Tasting Event Opportunity Here At Cleveland Park :
ON Saturday, March 19th, 2011 ( 3-7PM ) : Come try with Regis
of Roanoak Imports the great red and white burgundies of DOMAINE LEROY :
1) 1998 Bourgogne Blanc, $59.99
2) 2007 Bourgogne Rouge, $49.99
3) 2000 Savigny-Les-Beaune Blanc ( White ), $127.99.
Regis will taste other wines as well along with the LEROY Burgundy wines and we will have a great tasting.
WINES For Mardi Gras & The Week From Greg & Tony :
WHITES :
1) PUERTA VIEJA Blanco white 2009 Spanish Rioja from Bodegas Riojanas ( $11.99 ) is showing nicely now with food.
2) Malvasia Di Puglia 2009 " Montevento " from Puglia, Italy
( $8.99 ) is dry and crsip and firm and a treat with a meal now.
3) MACON-LOCHE dry white Burgundy 100% Chardonnay was tasted
here last Friday and I was really very pleased as it displayed unique
features and flavors that distinguished it from some of the others and
yet the price is reasonable at $19.99. The owners have been here before
and they also make really fine sparkling cremant from Burgundy from 100%
Chardonnay grapes.
4) The SUPERNATURAL 2009 100% Estate-Grown Hawke's Bay
Organic New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. Great packaging, a bottle top like a
Coke bottle : BLOWS ME AWAY, Stunning on all levels. I love it! Great
wine at $24.99 a bottle - great gift, perfect for tonight for Mardi
Gras.
SPARKLING -
1) OMMARIVA Onegliano Valdobiadene Prosecco Superiore
D.O.C.G. Italian Veneto Brut, $19.99 is brand-spanking new and really
thrilling and exciting and a new plateau, too.
2) FRV 100 De Jean-Paul " Terres Dorees " from 69380 Charnay, France and imported by Joe Dressner ( www.louisdressner.com ) is another fun, new sparkling French wine.
REDS -
1) MALBEC 2009 from Mendoza, Argentina, the TAMARI Reserva (
$15.99 ) is back by popular demand and makes for a nice liquid foil to
many foods. Warm you up now with these cold, breezy days and nights ...
2) Tempranillo 2009 from Spain's Rioja region, this EL
PRIMAVERA ( $14.99 ) is elegant and fine and smooth and bright,
red-cherried-berried and a medium-to-light-bodied delight to enjoy as we
harbor thoughts of spring these days and nights. Laurent Givry tasted
it here this past Friday evening. Really nice, I liked it a whole lot.
3) Tempranillo 100% 2009.EL ARTE DE VIVIR 2008 Spanish
Ribera Del Duero dry red ( $14.99 ) is thicker and beefier with more
pillars of rock-solid flavors that was also very popular this past
Friday evening when Laurent Givry tasted it. It needs a meal for me to
fill it in and round it out but that did not bother many of our
customers.
4) Pinot Noir/ Gamay dry red French Burgundy blend called
PASSETOUTGRAIN, 2007 from Francois Mikulski ( $19..99 ) is lovely to
enjoy now with a meal as the acidity levels are still pointed and the
toasty berry flavors still a touch tart and in need of some hors
d'ouevres to flesh it out and make it sigh and cry with joy and murmur
with pleasure and almost complete abandon and contentment ...
5) Gamay and Cabernet Franc is it?!? DOMAINE DE LA BERGERIE "
La Cerisaie " from the Loire Valley in France and from Yves Guegniard (
$14.99 ), this Anjou 2008 is a great Spring-anticipating French dry red
wine delight! Best again with food - try it with whatever you grill now
outside...
6) Pinot Noir Reserva from Argentina's Patagonia region,
this 2010 Pinot Noir ( $16.99 ) is only going to get better and more
defined and more complex, too... it's at the very beginning of it's
promising life - already very smooth and bright and freshh - now let the
complexities develop ...
7) Pinot Noir from Oregon's Willamette Valley, this " Spruce
Goose " 2006 ( On Special for $17.99 ) from the EVERGREEN VINEYARD is
really flavorful and with extra body and flesh and stuffing and age,
too. It's got it all with the focus and the character and the great
everyday price of $17.99 a bottle!
8) 33% Cabernet Sauvignon/ 31% Merlot/ 25% Syrah/ 11%
Cabernet Franc from Washington State's Columbia Valley; this 2006 "
Pomatia " HELIX by Reininger ( $19.99 ) is showing beautifully, We had
it open here last week and it's smooth as can be - classy and svelte and
silky, too ... nice mouth-feel ...
9) Merlot 2008 from Napa Valley in California and made by
DUCKHORN, this " Decoy " dry red ( On Special for $21.99 ) is a treat to
enjoy now with this cooler weather and breeze and blue skies ... and
while hunting and enjoying the spoils of one's hunt ...
WEEK'S TASTINGS :
THURSDAY, March 10th, 2011 ( 5-8PM ) : We have the
wine-maker of DARK HORSE here to taste two of his wines. This will be
the first time we have the wine-maker from DARK HORSE here. Join us,
this will be another treat. Join us, never any charge.
FRIDAY, March 11th, 2011 ( 5-8PM ) : We have Matt from
Washburn Imports here to taste a cross of Spanish, Italian and perhaps
Chilean wines, too. Join us, never any charge.
Saturday, March 12th, 2011 ( 3-7PM ) : We have Alexis here
to taste some of the excellent L.A. CETTO Mexican wines - Nebbiolo,
Cabernet Sauvignon , Chardonnay and more. We were just featured at the
Mexican Embassy with the Mexican Ambassador at a meal there a week and a
half ago. Really nice wines at $11 and the Reserves at under $25 a
bottle!
COME SEE US NOW - HAPPY MARDI GRAS! Jean-Marc just walked
into the store and Oded is landing at Dulles or National now I believe
... we are starting to hop now! Cheers, TONY
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