Sun Singer Wines "It's News"

January 12, 2011

Volume: # 4 Issue: # 2

JOIN US BEFORE AND AFTER THE GAME!

Sun Singer News

I like wine before, during, after and in between meals,

if things point that way.

~ M.F.K. Fisher, With Bold Knife and Fork, 1968

Baby, it's cold outside! Seems to be the standard lately along with continuing amounts of snow. Snow can be pretty, but we're already hearing grumblings of friends about 'this long winter'. At Sun Singer, we're doing our best to keep the season warm and welcoming with great food and wine, a warm place - we're just missing the fireplace - to relax and share holiday stories or New Year's plans with friends and family. Take the chill off with one of our Winter Warmers, a satisfying glass of wine or our current special on Glenmorangie 'The Original' Single Malt Scotch.

With plans already in the works for Valentines Day, you've got to realize that winter's icy grip won't last forever. Join us soon and often because Spring can't be far way!

Mark, Jackie & the Sun Singer Staff

Highlights

Good Wine!

At the Wine Bar

Super Tuscan

New Brews

Gift Baskets Galore

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Sensational Saturday Tasting

Saturday, January 15th

GOOD WINE!

12 noon - 4:00 p.m.

Tastings are free!

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Join us this Saturday and every Saturday as
Sun Singer explores the world of wine!

from the cellar:
At the Wine Bar!
Sun Singer offers more than 30 wines by the glass every day of the week. Here's a sampling of this week's selections at the Sun Singer Wine Bar.

Click here to have a look at this week's wine selection.

Wine Feature

The majority of this hedonistic beauty, the Cuvée Christine, is from warmer and rockier sites east of the Russian River Valley. Fermented with less stems (about 30%), and aged for one year in more new oak (about 70%) than most wines, this

tasty drop is ready to rip but will reward as much patience as you are willing to give.

PAX Cuvee Christine 2007
North Coast, California

Dark purple core with a ruby hue, black raspberry andblackberry dominate the Cuvee Christine with underlying notes of bramble, fennel and black cardamom. Waves of rich, thick, juicy fruit stroke the palate, marked by a bright, fresh and crystal clean finish, thanks to last year's cooler, extended growing season.

2 oz. $6.00 5 oz. $12.25 bottle $47

SUPER TUSCAN

It may be the wine world's coolest title for any category of wine, but the words Super Tuscan seldom show up on the wine label. Super Tuscan is not an official designation, but rather a grand name bestowed by the media on a certain type of Italian wine. What happened was this: Italy, like many other European countries, has strict rules governing how its wines are made. But in the 1970's some Tuscan winemakers were breaking those rules, often blending their revered sangiovese with - shockingly - such French varieties as cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, and merlot, and sometimes even making wines without a drop of the officially sanctioned sangiovese. The power and pizzazz of the wines moved the wine press to christen this style Super Tuscan.

Get in style and put a Super Tuscan on your

'to-do' list for early in the new year. Wine life

may never be the same!