Gosford Wine: December 2007 Archives

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

Greetings, I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful day. The dirty little rumor that Joe has been spreading about me (Ben Giacchino) returning to my beloved Gosford Wine is true! I am officially back on the job here three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)- and I hope that you all will come by and see me soon- I will be doing the seminars again as well and I am very excited. I will still be at the 5&10 on Friday nights; I love Hugh and all of my friends there too much to give it up all the way…

The selection for Wine of the Week is 2003 Domaine Magellan, “Ponant” Vin de Pays des Côtes de Thongue, France $9.99

This wine has been a mainstay here at Gosford since the day we opened. I love it- I have recommended it 500 times and now we have decided to honor it as the wine of the week. The Côtes de Thongue(located in the middle of the Languedoc) terroir is marked by irises and olive trees with most of the hillside vineyards facing southeast. The Mediterranean sea is a stones throw away, so you can imagine the flavor of this beauty- plum, dark red berry, tobacco spice and garrigue. It is a delicious red that has four years in the bottle and is really hitting a stride, as I sit here now glass in hand, sipping, I wonder why anyone would ever look anywhere other than the south of France for bargain wine. I mean- TEN CLAMS- for this wine is a crime against Sylvie Legros, the owner of Domaine Magellan.

The seminar will be a grab bag of things that I select for your ultimate tasting and drinking pleasure, it will be a ode to some of my favorite wines and regions- I will have stories and information about the wine and Lukas will be here to back me up if I need some heavy guns… you all know the drill 6pm-8pm, $5 dollars gets you in the door.

What to get the person who has everything?  It’s been on a rare occasion that I’ve heard someone lament that they have too much wine.  Who’d feel sorry for them anyway?  Let us help you pick the perfect bottles or make them happy with a gift certificate.  Happy Holidays!

Cheers,

Ben

Alright Folks,

Last week we featured the Chateau Romfort Bordeaux and it sold out, but if you didn’t try it you can have another shot at it when it comes in again on Wednesday.  This week we are upping the ante a little bit and I think you will be blown away by this beauty.

On the heals of a nice little Bordeaux, this week’s Wine of the Week is the 2004 Chateau Guiot Cuvee Alex $19.99. This is a step up from the Romfort in power, body and extraction.  It is an amazing wine worth the dollar and perfect for these cold nights we have ahead. Located in the Costières de Nîmes appellation, François and Sylvia grow both beautiful grapes, and incredible fruit (apricots & cherries), in the area where the Provence, Rhône and Languedoc regions all meet around the mouth of the Rhône River. All work is done by hand with great care and skill, and their wines reflect the authentic Provençal setting. Cuvée Alex –Costières de Nîmes- is named after Bobby’s son and 2004 was its premier release. It is a blend of 55% Syrah, the same fruit that makes the other super-premium wine Numa, named after the Cornut’s eldest son. The remainder of Alex is old-vine Cabernet Sauvignon. Each of these wines is aged in barrel for up to 13 months. This is a severe selection, using only the finest grapes on the estate. The result is an enormously extracted, concentrated wine with very powerful black fruit and intense spice and wood notes. This wine is delicious now but will gain complexity over the next 10 years.

Wednesday Night’s Seminar will feature wines from southern France.  The cost is $7 and drop by anytime between 6pm and 8pm. 

Cheers,

-Joe