"New Vintages" Winemaker Dinner at Angela's Bistro & Bar!!
Join us on September 18th at 5:30 for a eight wine, five course, winemaker dinner in celebration of our newly bottled wines!!
When: Sunday, September 18 at 5:30
Price: $50
Reservations: (510) 522-5822
*The Browns will be serenading you with their jazz tunes.
*The new vintages will be available at a 25% discount that evening.
*only 40 reservations available, so call right away. Click here for the menu
Lots of new Vintages - just bottled!! This past week at the winery, we bottled 4200 cases of all new vintages! Yes, 4200! We did not do this alone, however. Only with the incredible help from our friends and investors were we able to accomplish this task, and, in just two days. Do you remember the "I Love Lucy" show about the assembly line in the chocolate factory? We certainly tried to avoid that fiasco. But it can happen and sometimes did! - except with bottles of wine instead of chocolate. I think we all discovered muscles we never knew we had. But oh..., the outcome. The wine is gorgeous indeed. Here are the new wines:
2010 Swingsville Zinfandel (Contra Costa)
2010 Serenade in Blanc Sauvignon Blanc (Northcoast)
2010 Saxy Syrah (Northcoast)
2009 Zydeco Zinfandel (Napa Valley)
2009 Pizzicato Petite Sirah (Napa Valley)
2009 Minuet in Merlot (Napa Valley)
2008 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
Click the image below to view the short video of last year's bottling of the 2008 Zydeco Zinfandel (Once on the webpage, it's the 2nd video down) 
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RECIPE
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Don't forget CA folks, our summer (September and October)
is just beginning. The perfect time for seafood and crisp Sauvignon Blanc.
Here's a great summer recipe to go with the Sauvignon Blanc!
Spicy Chipotle Grilled Shrimp
Ingredients -serves 6- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, chopped
- 1-2 lemons, juiced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh cilantro (optional)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 pounds uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- wooden or metal skewers
Directions- Mix together the garlic, salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes, cayenne pepper, chipotle peppers, lemon juice, olive oil, paprika, and cilantro in a bowl. Stir in the shrimp, and mix well to thoroughly coat. Marinate for 30 minutes or more in refrigerator.
- Preheat an outdoor grill to medium-high heat, lightly oil the grate.
- Remove the shrimp from the marinade, and discard excess marinade. Thread about 5 shrimp per skewer, and grill on the preheated grill until the shrimp turn pink and opaque in the center, about 2 minutes per side.
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PHOTOS
| 2011 Shareholder's Party
Swingsville Trio, Barbara, Kevin and Kelly Park
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R&B Cellars
Home of the Wine that Swings!
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2007 Sauvignon Blanc
SUPER SALE
Buy it by the case for $60!! (a $5 bottle price)
Buy it by the bottle for $10
This wine tastes just as vibrant and fresh as the day it was bottled, partly because of the way in which it was made, but mostly because we use the stelvin closure, or rather, screw caps. Perhaps not as romantic as real corks, the stelvin closure is by far the best way to enclose a white wine that is intended to be drunk sooner than later, and not cellared. It ensures that the wine maintains its vibrancy and youthful characteristics. We just bottled our 2010 Sauvignon Blanc and are looking to move through the 2007. Some people think that white wine cannot age. But it most surely can, especially when the wine is protected with the stelvin closure. Our 2007 remains vibrant and crisp, youthful and full of luscious mineral and citrus tones.
Both the 2007 and the 2010 Sauvignon Blanc are made in the French Sancere style - lean and crisp, lots of mineral tones, good acidity, with hints of citrus: Mandarin and Blood oranges, Ruby Red Grapefruit. This sale will go until the vintage is done. The 2010 Sauvignon Blanc will be for sale at the regular price of $13 a bottle, $156 a case.
Buy the 2007 Sauvignon Blanc at the Tasting Room or at
the R&B office.
www.rbcellars.com
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Tasting Room
~ One gorgeous Tasting Room
~ Seven award winning wineries
~ An unparalleled view!
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2301 Monarch Street, Alameda, CA 94501
(Alameda Point Vintners@ Rock Wall Wine Co. on the old Naval Air Base)
Regular tasting hours: Wednesday - Sunday from Noon to 6pm
Address: 2301A Monarch Street in Alameda
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 From the Winemakers Crush 2011
Hello everyone,
What a busy and wonderful summer this has been. Our most exciting news is that our oldest son Ivan was married this past July. The wedding, held in bucolic Bedford New Hampshire, was absolutely lovely. We now have a wonderful daughter-in-law, whom we already love like a daughter.
Ivan and Meghan took their honeymoon on the coast of Maine, staying in some picturesque inns - lots of bike riding, exploring, relaxing.
Here is a short video of the wedding. The vocalist is Meghan herself!! You'll see Ivan on the sax too!
This year we're making our first ever Chardonnay!!
Summer is over and crush will soon be upon us. We've been busy in the winery getting everything prepped for the arrival of our first grapes, which will be out first ever Chardonnay! We have long thought , why make a Chardonnay? Everybody makes Chardonnay! Why add yet another Chardonnay to the over -crowded market?!
We have had a serious change of heart, however. Mainly because we have been drinking some fabulous French Chardonnay lately - our favorite style of this varietal. So we decided: let's make French style Chardonnay. To accomplish this, one of the first things we bought was a large concrete "egg" - a perfect vessel for fermenting Chardonnay to bring out the more desired French style mineral characteristics. Here is a picture of our "egg":
A giant egg or a space capsule with suspenders on? We think it more resembles an egg. We've named our egg "Chicken Little."
To compliment the egg fermentation, we bought some Rousseau French oak barrels to do the rest of the fermentation in. We are anticipating the release of our Chardonnay sometime in the summer of 2012. Chardonnay Name Challenge!!! As most of you know, all our labels have musical paintings on them (by the wonderfully talented Mimi Stuart - www.mimiart.com) and they all have musically inspired (sometimes jazzy) names. Wherever possible, we try to use a little alliteration: Zydeco Zinfanel, Minuet in Merlot, Pizzicato Petite Sirah, Saxy Syrah, etc. So, what to name our Chardonnay? The obvious name that came to mind was Chanson Chardonnay - but it had already been taken by another winery. If you can come up with a musical name, preferably with alliteration, and yours is the one we choose, you will win a case of of our Chardonnay!! Keep in mind, however, this name must not be in use by another winery. You'll have to do a little googling to make sure.
The challenge is on!! Good luck! Meet Dan Kanuk, our new National Sales Manager. Dan Kanuk is a long time friend and colleague of Kevin's. He comes to us with over 20 years of experience in the wine business, most of it in the wine wholesale market side of the world. Dan will be the man out in the field all around the US, opening up new markets for us and maintaining the existing ones.
 Click here to read more about him. Come help us with crush!
If you are local folks, (or even if you're not) we welcome you to come and help us with crush. To be sure, it is a lot of work, but we have a whole lot of fun. Several of our friends come and help out. They learn a lot, and, as one of our friends just said who worked the recent bottling, "we have a whole new appreciation for wine!" So give us a call.
Check out our new blog here!
-Kevin & Barbara Brown
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Upcoming Events & Tastings
Sunday, September 18th, 5:00 - 7:00pm
New Vintages Winemaker Dinner @ Angela's Bistro!!
Location: Angela's Bistro & Bar - 2301 Central Avenue, Alameda, CA
Reservations are only $50!!
This will be a great evening: R&B's new vintage wines/Angela's outstanding cuisine/and Kevin and Barbara's cool jazz!!
Sunday, October 2nd, 2:00 - 6:00pm
Featured Winery in the Tasting Room
Friday, October 7th, 8:00pm
Alterena Playhouse Rocky Horror Show (we'll be pouring our wines)
Thursday, October 27th, 6:30 - 9:00pm
After the Ball, fundraiser for Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter
Location: Rockwall Wine Co. - 2301 Monarch Ave, Alameda, CA
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R&B Cellars is Alameda's largest family-owned winery. Since 1997, R&B Cellars has grown from 230 to 12,000 cases produced annually across eight varietals.
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