Sommelier

7th Anniversary

Newsletter published by

"The Wine Maker's Toy Store™"
Dallas Home Brew
 
June 2010 
Volume 8, Issue 6
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7th Anniversary
 
Thanks to you, out most valuable asset, we had another wonderful year at The Wine Maker's Toy Store.  Along with our continued growth, last year saw several significant changes at the Toy Store, including adding home brew supplies for those of you that want to make beer, replacing Winexepert with RJ Spagnols and becoming a distributor for Hanna Instruments, as well as, Brehm Vineyards. 
 
Over the last seven years, my philosophy has not changed and will not change.  My philosophy is quite simple. I want to prove that you can give excellent customer service, take excellent care of our employees and still make money.  It seems that so many companies these days don't care about their customers or their employees.  All they care about is making as much money as fast as they can.  I want to disprove their philosophy.  In that end, I am not trying to be another Neiman-Marcus, but I definitely do not want to be the Wal-Mart of the home wine making stores. My objective is to be the store that you can count on to give you a competitive price with unsurpassed customer service.  So far, this philosophy has worked very well for us.
 
This next year will hold more changes as we continue to expand our products and make it easier to find products and information on our web site.  In that light, we will be adding more home brew supplies and equipment, offering fresh grapes for our local customers and launching our new web site.  We are also in negotiations with our landlord to move into a larger space.  This space would give us additional room for our constantly expanding product line and the ability to finally open our winery.
 
Again, my heartfelt thanks for your continued support of my dream.  We are here to help you make the best wine and beers, so if you ever have any questions, please give us a call or send us an email.
 
Be sure to check out our
 
 
Cheers,
George Cornelius
President and Owner
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Yeast Starter for Home Brews
 

Three of the most important things you can do to make the best beer is using proper sanitation techniques, proper yeast pitching rates and controlling your temperature.  By now, all of you should be aware of the need for proper sanitation and in a future article, we will discuss temperature control, so this article will discuss how to make a yeast starter to make sure you have enough yeast cells to properly ferment your beer.

 
To learn more, click on the following link:
 
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Fresh Grapes
 
For those of you in the local area, I will be attempting to put together a fresh grape order for the fall.  In order to make this work, I will need a minimum of 3 tons.  I will be getting the grapes from F. Colavita and Son out of California.  They have an excellent reputation for delivering high quality grapes.  If you are interested, please let me know how many pounds of each varietal in which you are interested.  If we have enough interest, we will place an order.
 
To learn more about this supplier and varietals available, please click on the following link:
 
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WineMaker Magazine Competition
 
This year we had 34 customers win 83 medals which left us in second place again.  For those of you that won a medal and listed us a your retailer, we will be emailing you a coupon shortly.  The amount of the coupon will be determined based on the previously published table:
  • Gold Medal - $100.00 Store Gift Certificate
  • Silver Medal - $75.00 Store Gift Certificate
  • Bronze Medal - $50.00 Store Gift Certificate
In addition, if you won with a wine kit, the manufacturs will also be giving you a coupon.  When I send out our coupons, I will tell you how to redeem their coupon with us, as well.  Remember, the wine kit manufacturers do not reimburse me for shipping, so you will have to pay my normal shipping charges. 

Fine Vine Wines, LLC

In This Issue
7th Anniversary
Yeast Starter
Fresh Grapes
WineMaker Magazine Competition
Current Specials
Current Events
Monthly Give-a-Way
Links
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Current Specials
 
To see this month's specials, new products and close out specials, click on the links below:
 
 
 
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Store Events
July 10  - Bottling Party
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Monthly Give-A-Ways
 
The winners for April were:
 
Cliff Whitworth
 
Denton, TX
 
and
 
Tobias K Dodge
 
Las Vegas, NV
 
 
To learn how to qualify for this promotion, click here.
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Other Links
 
 
Featured Articles
As a reminder, we continue to add products and content to the web site, therefore, if you have any special requests, please let us know. We like to hear what you have to say about our site, our products and/or our customer service, good or bad. Please send your comments and/or suggestions to [email protected]
 
Don't forget we like you to CALL!
 
If you have any questions about our products, our service and/or wine making or home brewing, please call us. We are here to serve you and enjoying assisting you in any way we can. We have an international toll-free line so you WILL call us.   Someone is usually at the store between 9 am and 7 pm, Monday through Saturday. We always try to answer the phone when you call; however, sometimes, we are unable to answer the phone as we are on the other lines or we have customers in the store. If you get the voice mail, please leave your name, number, brief message and a best time to call. We will return your call just as soon as we can.   If you don't want to call, just send us an email. We usually answer our emails daily. Please remember, we are a resource and we are here to serve you. 
 
We don't want to be the biggest store, just the BEST!

Cheers!
George Cornelius, President
Fine Vine Wines, LLC, The Wine Maker's Toy Store
 
Contact Information
George Cornelius - President  - [email protected]
Joseph Schuitema - Resident Wine Maker - [email protected]
Brian Beyer - Resident Brewer - [email protected] 
Mark Cornelius - Shipping Manager - [email protected]