04 Oct One Year Anniversary Celebration Next Week for Chateau La Vin!
Chateau La Vin Turns One!
October 14th is our one year anniversary and we are planning a weekend celebration starting next Thursday! Joe Boccardi’s 20th anniversary is October 11th so we are going to work together to have a great celebration! I’ll have more details for you soon.
Jazz Night!
Unfortunately business travel will keep the Jazz band away tonight (Thursday). It does look good that they will be back next Thursday to help in our anniversary celebration! For tonight, a new guitar player to Chateau La Vin, Dylan is going to try to stop in later in the evening for some acoustic guitar. He will try to be here between 8:30 and 9:00. Hopefully his schedule will work out and he will be able to make it in. In any event, we will be tasting some great wine tonight!
Today’s Tasting!
Serenity from California ($17.99) – The 2011 Serenity is a distinctive proprietary blend that displays fruit forward aromas of citrus, honeysuckle, nectarine and with expressive minerality. The flavors are rich and deep showing white peach, passion fruit, and honeydew melon with a hint of lime. The wine is well-balanced, leaving a long, clean and well-textured finish, like summer in a glass. 56% Pinot Grigio, 31% Sauvignon Blanc ,13% Gewürztraminer. This is a favorite of the shop that a lot of you have not had a chance to taste, so I thought I would taste it again tonight!
Vina Alicia Cabernet Sauvignon from Argintina ($19.99) – Harvest: By hand, in 20K plastic cartons, in order to preserve the grapes from breaking up or other damages harmful to the grape. Harvest is performed between March 25th and April 5th of each year. Processing: Fermentation is done in steel tanks : Continuous Remontage and Pissonier is performed, in order to obtain softer tannins and great color. The second fermentation is also performed in steel tanks and the rest in French oak barrels. The wine is then transferred to French oak barrels, where it is aged for 8 months, in order to obtain more clarification, and improving its color. Bottling: Is done after a mild filtering over natural earth,in order to eliminate any impurity. Tasting notes: Intense dark color. with a raspberry-like aroma and a complexity associated with this noble grape. Fresh, well-balanced, with gobs of dark fruit, great acidity, and mature tannins, unctuous and elegant. In the mouth it is profound and round, fleshy, with soft but potent tannins.
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