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COME IN AND TASTE THESE WINES ON SATURDAY, NOV 21, 1-5 PM
Complimentary
It's time to stock up on wines for Thanksgiving. To make your life easier, we'll uncork a few this coming Saturday and let you see for yourself if we have wines that suit your menu. We're going way down-under this weekend.
2008 Mt. Difficulty Pinot Gris (Central Otago, New Zealand, $23.99). Wine Advocate 88 points: "The 2006 Pinot Gris displays moderate intensity on the nose. Some light peachy aromas with a touch of rosewater. The palate is medium-bodied, slightly lower in acidity with a light, pear and orange zest finish."
2008 Turkey Flat Vineyards Rosé (Barossa Valley, Australia, $22.99). Wine Spectator 87 points: "This bright rosé is appealing for its pretty strawberry and rhubarb flavors, finishing off-dry. Grenache, Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Dolcetto."
2008 Mt. Difficulty "Roaring Meg" Pinot Noir (Central Otago, New Zealand, $25.99). Steve Tanzer 87 points: "Medium red. Red fruits and a whiff of caramel oak on the nose. The palate offers a brisk note of pomegranate but comes across as less dense and a bit drier than the regular bottling. Finishes with dusty, slightly drying tannins."
2006 Turkey Flat Vineyards "The Turk" (Barossa Valley, Australia, $22.99). Wine Advocate rated this wine 88 points. "The Turk" is a rather atypical blend of 33% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Shiraz, 24 % Mourvèdre and 18% Grenache, but it works well to produce a soft, medium-bodied wine with aromatics of blackcurrant, blueberry, cherry and spice and a palate of fresh berry flavors.
Donation
We have a hum-dinger for the paid ($5)(Benefit The Avery County Humane Society) component of our Saturday tasting -- 2005 Turkey Flat Vineyards Shiraz (Barossa Valley, Australia, $55.99). From Robert Parker of Wine Advocate - 95 Pts: "The spectacular 2005 Shiraz exhibits an inkier purple color as well as a deeper, richer, more nuanced style [compared to the 94-rated 2004 vintage]. Cropped at .8 tons of fruit per acre, which no doubt accounts for its awesome concentration, it is even better than the 2004, and should be longer lived, evolving for 15 or more years." |
LE NOUVEAU EST ARRIVEE!
Beaujolais Nouveaus is the perfect quaffer for the Thanksgiving chef (if my wife is any indication), and its light tannins and precocious fruitiness makes it an ideal wine to accompany turkey, so there's always lots around our house on turkey day. Over the past several years, though, we've become somewhat bored with the (un-named) Nouveau, which you can find case-stacked at the grocery stores. It's just too much like Kool-Aid.
Last year we finally found the Beaujolais Nouveaux that we feel qualifies as "real" wine, and we've stocked it again this year. If you want to save a few dollars, and maybe get a light wine reminiscent of bananas in a plastic bottle (that was the final straw for us last year!), go to the grocery store. If you want to get real wine, shop at Erick's for your Beaujolais Nouveau.
2009 Pierre Chermette Domaine du Vissoux (Beaujolais Primeur, $16.99). Domaine du Vissoux produces wines that are natural and great, at once. First natural. How's this: Pierre Chermette's yields are so low and the grapes so naturally ripe that he does not chaptalize, or add sugar, as most other Beaujolais producers do He uses only indigenous yeasts -- no "banana yeast" culture, à la Duboeuf (there, I've said it!). Then, the wine is bottled with no filtration, and without adding any sulfites. It is as natural a Beaujolais as one could have had in a café in Lyon in the 40's.
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FALL HOURS
We will be open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m.
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Erick's Cheese and Wine Shop, Grandfather Center, Banner Elk, NC 28604, (828) 898-9424 www.erickscheeseandwine.com
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