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BRIDESMAID Napa Valley White 2008
Sauvignon Blanc/Semillon Blend for Springtime
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| Greetings!
I've been to the gastronomic mountaintop and bring you the good news.
Ad Hoc, Thomas Keller's Restaurant that serves one meal a night, serves Fried Chicken every other Monday. It's a hot ticket in Napa, as our 9 PM seating suggests. The chicken was amazing...so lightly fried and moist, it's tempura-like yet with all the flavor and crunch of classic fried chicken. Not too fancy. Harkening back to a memorable fried chicken and crisp white wine dinner in Vienna, I brought an Austrian Riesling by Willi Brundlmayer to pair. Mmm, mmmm. Final meal-worthy.
Today's Money Wine, BRIDESMAID White, Napa Valley 2008, makes a fine fried chicken match as well. Check out my tasting notes just below and you'll see what I mean.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday events this week. A new monthly tasting theme starts tomorrow. It's called Two Memorable Wines Night. For $15 we serve two fat pours of really good, rare, usually imported, wine. Burgundy and Northern Rhone are on the playbill tomorrow. See what they are just below, along with our Friday & Saturday events.
Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down. Dan
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Money Wine
March 24, 2010
Money Wine: a wine that anyone who loves good, rich, utterly delicious wine will enjoy A LOT, and is an EXCEPTIONAL VALUE.
Today, an Al Fresco White to match shellfish and fried foods:
BRIDESMAID WHITE,
Napa Valley 2008 $20
You can bet your intact NCAA Bracket that I'll drink good Sauvignon Blanc 365 days a year. Still, there's something about welcoming spring that makes us all crave cool, refreshing wines just a little bit more. Rosé wines, for example, just started selling again. With the ice melting around much of the country and patio dining a possibility around here (at least in 95% Sauvignon Blanc, 5% Semillon
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This is a blend of 95% Sauvignon Blanc & 5% Semillon. Two Napa Valley vintners, Pam Starr & Drew Neiman, are the producers. No oak applied so the fruit shines. Some lees gives the Bridesmaid its curves. (Lees are the remnants of fermentation. When left in the wine before it's bottled, the lees give wine more richness and creamy texture).
It is a crisp, "zingy" wine, full of flavor, and very good with shellfish and fried foods (like the fried chicken I mention above...french fries come to mind as well). My tasting notes sound like a stroll through the produce aisle: tangerines, green apples, pineapples, Meyer lemons, melons and lemongrass.
Holly and I took a bottle of Bridesmaid to our favorite Mexican restaurant, Las Palmas, last month. Ceviche and Bridesmaid white was DY-NO-MITE!
Read about it here.
Bridesmaid White, Napa Valley 2008, $20/bottle
Case price: $216 (10% off).
3 ways to order:
Buy Bridesmaid White online here,
Just reply to this email with your order,
or call us, toll-free, at 877-322-2576
Thank you!
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Thursday, Friday & Saturday Tastings
This Thursday (tomorrow), March 25, from 5 to 8 P.M.
Taste Two Memorable Wines
$15/tasting
Etienne Sauzet, one of Burgundy's great producers. We'll pour you Sauzet Puligny-Montrachet "Champ Gain" 1er Cru 2006, $95/bottle
Chateau de Saint Cosme is 14  generations old! Louis Barruol, #14, has Saint Cosme's star rising once again.
Based in Gigondas, Mr. Barruol also makes stunning wines from the Northern Rhone.
This Thursday we will pour you the
Saint Cosme Côte-Rôtie 2006, $85.
This Friday, March 26, 5 to 8 P.M.
Taste Santa Barbara Wines
$15/tasting
An exceptional line-up for you this Friday night. Six wines, each very different from each other, for your enjoyment. Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Grenache, Syrah, Nebbiolo and one more (Viognier, I hope).
Here's the line-up so far.
This Saturday, March 27, 5 to 7 P.M.
ARTIST RECEPTION FOR J. PANTER (J.P.)
Wine and snacks served.
Meet J.P., sip, snack and enjoy her art, adorning Back Room's Walls.
Here's J.P.'s website.
More info about the reception.
Japanese Geisha on Parade in Taiwan, 2008. By J. Panter
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Taste Two Memorable Wines
This Thursday,
March 25,
5 to 8 P.M.
We pick two exceptional wines in the shop for guests to drink, discuss and enjoy.
This Thursday:
ETIENNE SAUZET
Puligny-Montrachet
"Champ Gain" 2006
$95/bottle
and
SAINT COSME
Côte-Rôtie 2006
$85/bottle
$15/Tasting
More details here
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Taste Santa Barbara Wines
This Friday,
March 26
5 to 8 P.M.
Six different grapes, and wonderful wines, from down south.
Sauvignon Blanc
Pinot Noir
Grenache
Syrah
Nebbiolo
and one more
$15/tasting
More information
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Good New York Times Story About Wine Shops
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Check out this story about new wine shops in New York City.
Similarities between them and BRW? Putting patrons at ease, my own tasting notes, treasure the independence from large distributors, WINE SHOP WITH SOUL! I think so. Hope you agree.
Drink more wines that score 95 points by YOU.
Dan
Daniel Dawson
Owner, Back Room Wines
Corner of First & Main Streets (First Street
Entrance)
Downtown Napa, California 94559
Phone: (707) 226-1378 Toll Free # is
877-322-2576
email: daniel@backroomwines.com |
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