White Wines

Some of you are already familiar with our Saturday Tastings. For those of you that are not here is the breakdown.  We host the tastings in the off season normally starting with October or November ending in April or May, always on a Saturday from noon till 3:00pm. The tastings are free and we offer purchase discounts on the items we are tasting that day. The majority of tastings are wine with a few in between for beer and liquor. Idea behind it is to give our customers something to look forward to and also the opportunity to taste and learn about some great wines. To top it all off the last Saturday....read more

I am going to talk about wine in this article , not any wine but Orin Swift Wines. Here is to the launch of their new project "Locations" Wine. "Locations is a simple concept made complicated that ultimately became a great deal of joy." Orin Swift Wines is making it easier and easier for everyone to love their wines. The idea behind this project is a series of three wines E(Spain), F(France), I(Italy) each being a reflection of the given country's best possible wine. The first one released was "E-1" a blend of Garnacha, Carignan and Tempranillo from locations throughout Spain. The wine is....read more

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by Stacey Harwood Late-season produce always put me in a fruit frenzy. At the market last week, in a tableau straight from a Manet still-life, golden peaches sat beside a pile of fragrant melons, pints of blackberries laid out alongside. They're each lovely to eat on their own, but paired with spirits they rise to a new level of indulgence: to sip a fruity cocktail while watching the shadows lengthen is to know why Henry James believed "summer afternoon" were the two most beautiful words in the English language.I like to imagine that James would have said so while dining in the courtyard of a French inn after a day of "motoring" with Edith....read more

by Sarah Bray With cooler nights setting in on New York City after some of the most humid hot summer days, all I can think of is getting my hands on a glass of sauvignon gris. Originally from France, few places actually still grow the grape now, but vines were brought over to Chile in the 1800s, and the Cousiño family in Santiago is still producing gorgeous wines from it. A relative of sauvignon blanc, this pink-skinned grape produces a wine with a sweet, acidic nose, reminiscent of dried oranges and tangerines, fuller on the palate than its zippy brother-all around, this bottle is perfect for sipping on a cool late-summer evening, and goes....read more

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  As simple as this process sounds it serves a good purpose. Opening a bottle of wine correctly is a way to bring respect to the product itself and allow for it to show the full potential.    The most important tool is opening wine is: the corkscrew.Make sure you have the wine at the proper serving temperature; chill it or warm it if needed before hand.    First step is to cut the foil from the neck of the bottle. Foil will always be cut under the lower edge of the ring found near the opening of the bottle. Removed the foil "cap" you just cut and place the spiral's point on the....read more

I bet we all have a great story for how we started drinking wine. This to me is a very fond memory because it ultimately brought me where i am today. The love for wine will not happen over night. As many others i started drinking wine that was sweet and easy to enjoy. I do remember the first "serious" red that i had was a malbec and all i could think of was :"did i just chew on a piece of dirt?". With time and numerous tastings i have learned how to appreciate wine and i think that's how my true love for wine started. That was followed shortly by curiosity on different aspects of the wine industry and found myself....read more