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Music is on the Menu in August
Not every Friday boasts live music but starting with
August 3rd our local troubador Jerome will visit your
table and serenade you with songs you'll all know.
August 10th is peace and pizza night (no live music)
just starry skies and pizza pies. Then on August 17th
the oven master will be mastering the art of heavy
weather sailing out in the cold Pacific off of northern
California and there will be no pizza.
Back again on August 24th Johnny Mojo and Friends will rock you as we roll your pizza pies while Johnny, Phil and John takes you on a trip down to Rock's roots - the Blues! Kicking off your Labor Day weekend, Friday evening August 31st brings us our favorite folk duo - Anderson and Gram. Talented, personable and downright entertaining this husband wife duo is dynamite. They'll perform cover tunes you'll all know and their own original songs that sounds so good you sure you've heard them before. Pizza and Anderson & Gram - what a treat! |
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Wednesday evenings in Davis, Sunday mornings in Sacramento
After 2.5 months of paperwork, we
have our special
ABC licenses to participate like any
other farmer and
sell our estate grown wines at
Farmers Markets. The
key is estate grown because one can
only sell what
they grow at a certified Farmers
Market. We've
selected two markets: Davis's
Wednesday evening
market at the park and Sacramento's
Sunday morning
market downtown under the HWY 50/80 freeway at 8th
and W (I'm
always confused at where 50 ends and 80 begins).
These are two of
the oldest and biggests markets and
hopefully will
support our committment to
sustainable farming by
buying and enjoying Fitzpatrick
wines.
If you shop at one of these markets, stop by and say hello. Realize too that we can bring to you any special orders you may have for our wines each week (call ahead) including our tasting room specials. There will be market specials to enjoy too. Help make it a big success. Let your market friends know that Fitzpatrick wines are certified organic, estate grown, solar- powered, biofuel driven, etc. and taste good too. Your purchase decisions can save the world. I myself enjoy the market, talking with other farmers and trading wine for all their tasty offerings. |
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40% Off by the Box - 30% mix and match
Each month I select three wines, sometimes four, to
offer you at 40% by the case or 30% off if you want to
mix and match a case from that month's selections.
This month now through August 31st you can stock up
on our Gold medal 2006 Sierra Dreams, 2003 Tir na
nOg and either vintage of our 2002 or 2003 Merlot.
40% Off makes these wines every day wines so you'll need to stock up. And for our Wine Fellowship Gold members, you get an extra 10% Off for a total of 50% Off. |
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Exhibit is in our Great Room throughout August
Max Kern brought over about 20 photos, some color,
some black & white, a mere sub-sample of a great
library of his works, to exhibit and offer for sale. He has
a library of hundreds if not thousands of photos he
has
captured over the years, digitally stored, from which he
prints himself.
So stop by and peruse his exhibit. Max's award- winning protrait of me is on display as well. If you're looking for something in particular, Max may already have it . Our Tasting Room is open everyday except Tuesdays from 11am through 5pm when Max's photos will be available for viewing too. |
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A long-term project is nearing its debut.
The dreaded foe in any winery is also an agent of
good health and a welcomed culinary ingredient.
Vinegar is not something winemakers want to infiltrate
their wines but nature has other ideas. Left
unattended or sometimes despite good winemaking
paractices wines can develop the beginnings of
vinegar - acetic acid. Keeping all your containers full,
devoid of air and properly sulfited, wines will age
gracefully without this volatile acidity taking hold. But
what if you want to make vinegar?
If the precursor to vinegar is always lurking about why then is making high-quality vinegar so unpracticed here in America? Well, high-quality vinegar starts with, yup, high-quality wine. Then it takes a completely separate building (the Vinegar House) with the right conditions to create vinegar in the slow natural 'Orleans' method over 12-18 months. So the winemaker makes the initial wine, ages the wine in oak for one to two years, then removes the wine to the Vinegar House and further ages the wine while its transforming to vinegar for another 1.5 years for an average of three or more years before real vinegar is born. Our vinegar project's first bottling will start with a 2004 Mother of Zin which may be released as early as October. We'll keep you posted. |
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Water vs. Wine
If it's from the internet, it's got to be true - right? So I
quote from an email just received, " In a number of
carefully controlled trials, scientists demonstrated that
if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the
year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of
Escherichia coli (E. coli), bacteria found in feces. In
other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine
because alcohol has to go through a purification
process of fermentation...
Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit." |
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September 8th and October 13th
Gosh, I almost sealed and sent out this Enewsletter
forgetting to let you all know of the upcoming Fair Play
Wine & Poker Runs - September 8th and October
13th. Call us at 800-245-9166 for your tickets.
The Fair Play Wine & Poker Run is the best deal around. Turn a day of wine tasting up three or four notches. You check in at 11am or so, get your map and instructions. Then visit the 5 participating wineries, taste their lineup, select a complimentary bottle at each winery and get a sealed envelope with a playing card. You can better your hand at each winery by buying a case earning another sealed playing card. Buy a second case at a winery and get an automatic joker. Yoy'll have plenty of time to stop and relax over a Ploughmans' Lunch here or eat at Gold Vine, the Fair Play Bistro or the new D'Agostini Cafe. Then at 5pm every one rendevous at either the Bistro or Fitzpatrick's for dinner and the Grand Finale where your cards are unsealed, hands are put in order and winners are announced. There's a table of donated prizes enough for at least half of the players but the grand Prize is a night in our Winemaker's Suite. Tickets are limited and cost only $89.50 per person. |
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