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"Green" Bags & Red Blends
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Greetings!
Green is the way to be.
Back Room Wines now has eco-friendy, reusable,
six-bottle bags. Yes indeed: good for the environment. And so sharp looking! Here's green bag model
Dan Lee, showing off the new, snazzy, multi-color Back Room Wine reusable wine bag. Sensational.
"Woo Hoo! Green bags, I'll alert the media," you say?
Well yes, I too have seven such bags at home, on a hook meant to hold one. (Although not a wine bag, and not one as colorful and snazzy as ours.) Our bags are eco-friendly AND they raise money for charity.
Here's the skinny:
1. Your first Back Room Wine bag is free with 6 bottle purchase. 2. Bring back your bag, purchase at least 3 bottles, and choose which of our selected charities you wish to donate 25 cents.
3. Choose between our three beneficiaries: We'll love to see your Back Room Wine bag, but any reusable bag or box, with purchase of at least 3 bottles, will do. CASE PURCHASES (12 bottles) that leave in reusable bags or boxes (case box from our stash qualifies) garner a 50 cent donation!
As mail order is a big part of our business, friends and customers around the country: when you buy a case of Back Room Wine, ask for a Green Bag and we'll include it with your wine.
Check out today's two MONEY WINES for the beginnings of a fine case of Back Room Wine.
Great tastings this Thursday & Friday. Just below are this week's tasting events with details.
Remember that the wine bar is open 7 days a week, 10 AM to 7 PM.
Flights, bottles & half-bottles (best prices in town for bottles in the wine bar),
and cheese & wine combos available all the time.
"Back Room's Wine Bar delivers the biggest bang for your buck in the Napa Valley."
Some smart guy
That's it for now. I'm looking at the wind & rain outside right now. Dan Lee, two years removed from his life in Michigan, is annoyed. He mumbles something about being promised 85 degrees and sunshine every day April through October. HAH!
See or speak with you soon. Dan
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Money Wines
April 27, 2010
Money Wine: a wine that anyone who loves good, rich, utterly delicious wine will enjoy A LOT, and is an EXCEPTIONAL VALUE.
Red Blends always make my customers happy. Here are two local red blends that'll please you to pieces.
ODISEA 
"Veritable Quandary"
California 2008 $17
"ODISEA: A long wandering and eventful journey,"
proclaims the winery. Each old vineyard they harvest, each wine they
make, is a journey. Cool enough...more importantly, the wine is GOOD!
Very good.
Odisea continues to produce delicious, strong wines of exceptional quality for very reasonable prices. You may have had an Odisea wine or two from Back Room before. They've been a staple here since 2005. They continue to fly under the radar - WE LIKE THAT! Low production - 440 cases of this wine. Only other listing on Winesearcher for "V.Q." is in Carmel, Indiana. I'm guessing owner/winemaker Adam Webb is from here.
"Veritable Quandary" is a big, spicy blend of five grapes: Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, Petite Sirah and Tempranillo. It's
big, spicy, rich and pleasing. Smell & taste blackberry pie, allspice,
cocoa, cassis, cracked black & pink peppercorns, eucalyptus. Big flavors and soft
tannins. You'll notice the oak but it's subtle: just a little new American oak used.
It's super-pleasing and easy to enjoy, especially with some nice, meaty BBQ
pork ribs. Buy "Veritable Quandary" here.
SKYLARK "Las Aves"  Mendocino County 2007 $25/bottle
52% Cabernet Sauvignon,
38% Carignane, 10% Syrah.
It's a Priorat/Montsant (Spanish Mediterranean Coast) inspired blend.
I tasted this wine last summer with Co-Owner & Co-Winemaker Rob Perkins. My notes last summer read, "nice floral, spicy aroma...substantial wine...tight on the finish. Needs six months to unwind." Those six months have long-passed. It's late April and the wine just came in. I write this Monday afternoon and just opened a bottle to re-visit. Thank goodness: it has unwound and is drinking nicely now! Nose is kirsch, white pepper, spicy barrel, violets and pomegranate juice. Taste continues on from the nose in a balanced, full-flavored, not-over-the-top way. More flavors, as it breathes and blossoms, are cocoa powder, tobacco, fresh ripe blueberries and cinnamon. The oak, on the heavy side last summer, is now just one of the many facets. Excellent wine. Can't stress this enough: it's a substantial wine, but it's not an uber-ripe Orin Swift "The Prisoner" style of wine. The sweet sensations are pulled back, allowing the layers of flavor to come out.
Just 224 cases made.
"Las Aves," by the way, means "the birds" in Spanish.
Skylark "Las Aves," fly away fly away to my customers' homes!
Buy SKYLARK "Las Aves" here.
3 ways to order:
1. Use the respective order link after each wine,
2. Reply to this email with your order,
3. Call us, toll-free, at 877-322-2576
Thank you!
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Two Memorable Wines
This Thursday
April 29
5 to 8 P.M.
Last Thursday of the month, we pour two very special, and we think memorable, wines.
Experience two memorable wines for a reasonable price.
This Thursday:
FX PICHLER
Grüner Veltliner "Kellerberg" 2008 $93
and
VIEUX DONJON Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2007 $69
$15/Tasting
More details here
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TASTE THE FIVE BORDEAUX GRAPES
This Friday,
April 30
5 to 8 P.M.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Franc
Merlot
Malbec
Petit Verdot
Taste and read what each grape adds to the blend. Enjoy the wines and taste the differences in each.
$15/tasting
Here's the Bordeaux grape line-up
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Our favorite Rosé this year, so far
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preparation for our next column
"Honey, What Am I Drinking?") in the
Napa Valley Register, Holly and I blind-tasted seven 2009 vintage Rosé wines last
Sunday.
We liked most, not crazy about a couple,
wouldn't spit any of them out if served at a wedding.
I bought the wines from local wine shops + Whole Foods. The winner, hands-down,
for us, is sold at Back Room Wines (HOO-RAY!).
BERGERIE DE L'HORTUS Rosé 2009 Coteaux du Languedoc $14/bottle.
It's from Pic St Loup, not too far from the
Southern Rhone Valley. The blend of Grenache, Mourvedre & Syrah, in that
order, makes for a perfect combination of peach strawberry grapefruit flavor
with white pepper and Herbs de Provence giving it a nice, dry
"French" flavor. Made for a perfect companion to our
Rocky Free Range chicken, rotisserie-cooked. The Rosé is $14/bottle and will be
one of the many wines featured at our Rosé tasting a week from Friday, May 7.
Ask your meat monger for the Rocky chicken.
The song contest last week was pretty hard. Took almost twenty minutes to get our two winners. That's a record! And only a handful of replies. Back to The Bee Gees next time?
The challenge was to sing the song below and fill in the blank:
I know that my life make you nervous
But I tell you that I can't live in service
Like the doctor who was born for a purpose
__________________.
Want to know the answer? Click here and find out
(thank you Roger in Benicia for this!)
Drink more Trousseau Gris. 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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