Happy Holidays!

Greetings Everyone,

I just wanted to share with you our Holiday Schedule…

We will be open  10am to 9pm all this week and

10am to 5pm on Christmas Eve,

We are closed Christmas Day and Dec. 26^th

The Wine of the Week is 2005 Corte alla Flora, “Podere del Giuggiolo,” Toscana, Italy $11.99

This wine is made of Prugnolo Gentile- an old clone of Sangiovese- that is great for guzzling: think, red fruits, violets, tobacco, earth with an underlying balsamic component that makes it really interesting and delicious. Because of the great acid the wine is quite applicable to an enormous amount of foods, sliced meats, steak, roasted chicken, salmon… This relatively new estate meticulously makes outstanding wines at very fair prices. enjoy!

Hugh likes wine:

Vouvray, how we love you.

When we talk about our adoration of you it's due to how you toy with our

emotions.  Sometimes you're sweet, like a Moelleux; sometimes cold-hot,

demi-sec if you will; sometimes you are dry and refreshing without being all

gushy and lovey-dovey.

The problem is that your year to year variation has me nervous...  I never

know what to expect.  But do you remember  '06 and '05?  That's when we

really found each other.  Your beauty brightened up dull holiday dinners

with your ability to chat with the ham and the turkey AT THE SAME TIME.  You

made vegans and omnivores happy.   They thought your accent was cute.  It

was two years of bliss.  Almost as good as 2002, when everyone  else was

under water but you were FANTASTIC.

Can we meet again?*  "bien sur, Hugo."

Jean Francois Merieau Vouvray, 'Fleuve Blanc', Sec, 2006

$20.99 btl

**Super young and talented producer making wines in Tours; does fantastic

Sancerre and gamay as well. **

This one is crisp and fruit laden, matching seamlessly with that turkey,

ham, tofurkey, mock-chateaubriand.

Actually if you are eating mock meat I recommend a demi-sec, maybe an aged

Huet.

There will be no seminar on Wednesday, we will focus on providing service to folks looking to buy gifts and such. Seminars will resume Jan.  9^th