Kelley Fox from Kelley Fox Wines, NOT Megan Kelly from Fox News Will Be at Storyteller Wines Tonight!
Hello everyone, another stellar weekend of tastings to finish off the summer (already?). As mentioned in the above photo, Kelley Fox (along with other winemakers Isabelle Dutartre and Rebecca Marie Pittock Shouldis) will be at Storyteller Wines Friday night, and Mt. Tabor Fine Wines has an authentic Rhone Valley tasting. I love me some wines you can actually TASTE without big oak monsters (Gary Vaynerchuk’s phrase, thanks Gary). As always, if you find a great “QPR” wine that tastes much more than it costs let us know!
Friday, September 10, 2010
Cork, NE Alberta and NW Lovejoy
New Arrivals from Washington to Spain, 4-6 pm, $10.
Cornell Wine
TBD, 4:30-7 pm, $8-$16.
Every Day Wine
Owen Roe Mini Flight, 5-9 pm, $9.
Foster and Dobbes
Wines of the Loire
Summer may have slipped through our fingers, but we can hope for a long, lovely fall. So let’s embrace the turn of season by raising a glass of something tasty! Drop by the shop this Friday, September 10th, 4:30 – 6:30pm, when Anella Rangel from Bishop Wines will be here to share a few of her favorite Wines of the Loire. Crisp and exhilarating, Loire wines are especially food friendly and go easily with late summer/early fall menus. Anella will be pouring samples of: the 2007 Francois Chidaine Vouvray Clos Baudin, 2008 Domaine du Haut Bourg Le Pavillon Muscadet de Cotes de Grandlieu, 2006 Rene Noel Legrand Les Lizieres Saumur-Champigny, and 2007 Chateau Pierre-Bise Sur Schistes Anjou. Hope to see you here! 4:30-6:30 pm, $10.
Garrison’s Fine Wines
Riserva Chianti Tasting (plus Riserva Brunello Bonus)
2006 Selvapiana Chianti Bucerchiale Riserva
2006 Felsina Chianti Classico Riserva
2006 Felsina Chianti Classico Rancia Riserva
2006 Paneretta Chianti Classico Riserva
2007 Faltognano Chianti Montalbano Riserva ‘I Comparini’
5-8 pm, $15.
California Cabernet With Chocolate
By all means don’t miss this one!!! The birthday celebration for my Darling Janice and Doc will indeed be special. Wines will be outstanding and the Chocolate tasty.5-8 pm, $15.
Great Wine Buys
The bittersweet month of September is perfect for the under-appreciated lovely wines of Alsace. An early look at the highly touted ’08 vintage as well as older bottlings, including 2004 and 2000, from Deiss, Mann, Gassman, Zind-Humbrecht, & Trimbach. $17.50, 7:30.
Hollywood Wine & Espresso
TBD, 5-10 pm, $10.
Oregon Pinot Noir
Some new red wines from Merriman, Walter Scott, Libra, and some old friends like J. Christopher, Westrey, Beran, and Belle Pente.I’ll also have the Matt Kramer recommended white from his last column (–it’s delicious!) It’s a dry Hungarian white made from the furmint grape. 5-7 pm, $5.
Liner & Elsen
No tasting
Mt. Tabor Fine Wines
Authentic Rhone Valley Reds
After tasting quite a few Rhone reds over the past few weeks trying to select the best in the market for this tasting I am convinced that these are some of the finest wine values around. At all price ranges you get wines that are true to the character of the region, that “somewhereness” that wine fanatics are looking for. They taste like they are from the south of France. From the first sniff of the better examples there’s that “yep, that’s the South of France I’m smelling”. It’s the absolute first thing I’m looking for when I taste ANY wine. Does it taste like someplace? For me the most boring wines taste fruit jammy with that vanillin woody thing and could be from anywhere, yet nowhere…………special! This is what people mean when they say that too many wines have become “Parkerized”. These people aren’t making authentic wines from the terroir where they grow their wine. They’re trying to please the BIG critic! Too bad but there you go. Like everything else in life everything is driven by greed and profit. Somebody reel me in.4-8:00 pm, $15.
Portland Wine Merchants
TBD, 4:30-7:30, $15
Storyteller Wine Co.
Kelley Fox Wines, Scott Paul Wines, 1789 Wines, De Ponte Cellars, Ghost Hill Cellars
This Friday evening Kelley Fox (Kelley Fox Wines and Scott Paul Wines), Isabelle Dutartre (1789 Wines and De Ponte Cellars) and Rebecca Marie Pittock Shouldis (Ghost Hill Cellars) ride into Storyteller Wine Company to kick butt and pour their gorgeous Pinot Noirs. This past week Storyteller Wine Company turned three years old and I can’t think of a better way to cap off the celebration than to host these three dynamic and talented winemakers. They saddled up the first time back in February and Alu Wine Bar may never be the same! There will be no charge for this tasting. But there really should be. I hope you can join us for what might just turn out to be the grandest tasting of the year! 6-9 pm, free.
Vino
TBD, 4:30-8 pm, fee.
The Wine Cellar
TBD, 4-6:30 pm, free
Wine/Unwind in the Pearl
Bordeaux Wine Tasting, Chateau Tour de Segur, 6-8 pm
Woodstock Wine and Deli
Merlot, A Noble Grape, 6:30 pm, $10.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Cornell Wine
TBD
Garrison’s Fine Wines
Everyday wines, 1-4 pm, free
Great Wine Buys
Great Rhônes from Guigal, Beth Eby will pour a selection of top-performing, reasonably-priced bottles from E. Guigal, the Rhône master. Côtes du Rhône Rouge et Blanc, Gigondas and Crozes-Hermitage. FREE! 2-5 pm, free.
Liner & Elsen
Muga Blanco, Dom. du Cros/Philippe Teulier Marcillac, Burle Vacqueyras, Chantal & Philippe Mur Basté Vin de Pays du Comté Tolosan, and Ch. Jouclary Cuvée Tradition. Noon-5, free.
Portland Wine Merchants
free.
Storyteller Wines
Drop by to try a few new wines brought to us by master importer Kermit Lynch. You won’t be sorry you did when you see the lineup. There will be no charge for this tasting.12-5 pm, free.
The Wine Cellar
TBD, 12-5 pm
