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Best in Glass       Satek Winery's eNewsletter
 
February 2013
 
Inclement Weather
   

If the weather outside is frightful, but wine sounds so delightful, please take a minute to check our website before heading out to Satek Winery to be sure we have no weather-related closings.   We update via Twitter, so our website is likely to have the most current information.

frizzantino 

Coming Soon

Kreibaum Bay Moscato

 

Almost Gone

Old Vine Red Zinfandel, 2010

Blueberry

 
WINOS series for 2013 announced
WINOS shopping girls 

 

Our uber-popular Girls Night Out-- W.I.N.O.S. (Women In Need Of Shopping) -- is still a few months away, but we have finalized dates for this year's series. Mark your calendars and message your girlfriends to make plans to attend one or more of the following dates:

May 17 ~ June 7 ~ June 21 ~ July 12 ~ July 26 ~ August 9

 

We'll have tickets available for purchase online starting in April, along with a list of menus and Merchant Marketplace vendors.  Check our website and future newsletters for more details.

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Quote of the Month

Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.

 

-GERALD ASHER

The Pleasures of Wine

 

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Greetings!

 

This edition of Best In Glass happens to be the 40th issue I've written. I started the newsletter in November of 2009, as an idea to communicate with our loyal customers easily and inexpensively, and without the environmental impact of traditional mailings. Since then, more than 2600 customers have

Christina and Dawn at WINOS last summer
Christina and Dawn at WINOS last summer

requested to be on our email list, and more are added every month.

I appreciate my readers indulging me in my casual writing style, my extreme enthusiasm for wine, and occasional silliness--but then again, none of us here take ourselves too seriously. Good wine, good fun, as Larry always says.

 

This, issue #40, will also be my last, as I have accepted a job as Executive Director of the Angola Chamber of Commerce. I have met so many great customers here in my tenure as Director of Marketing. I am excitedly looking ahead, but will also fondly look back on what a great place Satek Winery has been to work. Best in Glass will continue as the winery's primary means of communicating with you, and of course Satek will continue to offer some of the best locally-made, award-winning wines in the area, with new wines being developed and new fun events being conceived all the time. In fact, I plan to visit regularly on the "other side" of the tasting bar as a customer myself, and hopefully can kick back and enjoy a WINOS event in a non-working capacity. After all, you can never have too much Good wine, good fun!

 
-Sl�inte!
Christina 
Kreibaum Bay Moscato to debut Feb. 14
 

Kreibaum Bay MoscatoFrizzantino: an Italian term for a wine that has a very slight effervescence. The French call it Perlant. Our version, which should be released mid-February, will be known as Kreibaum Bay Moscato. Our winemaking staff is excited to debut this much-requested style of wine just in time for Valentine's Day.

 

Made from our Golden Muscat grapes--this lightly sweet-KB Moscato will have enough sparklingly elegant tiny bubbles to make Don Ho proud.

 

Head winemaker Shane Christ said that Satek Winery has one of the more established Golden Muscat grapevine plantings in the region, which led him to create our own version of this popular style of wine. Our Kreibaum Bay Moscato, he states, is made by arresting the fermentation to leave just a bit of residual sugar. It will be finished to be a fizzy, semi-sweet white wine, and will exhibit an intense floral character with hints of melon. Sold in split bottles (375 ml), it will sell for $9.49.

Wine 101: Terminology, Technique, and Taste
hand holding a glass of wine 

The winters of Indiana can seem drudgingly long without a slate of fun activities planned to keep you occupied.   We have one such activity that may appeal to both your quest for fun as well as your quest for knowledge (with a little wine thrown in): our Wine 101 course.  If you've wanted to increase your appreciation of the wine you drink by exploring the terminology, technique, and taste profiles of wine, we offer an unpretentious 75-minute class that breaks down all the jargon while leading you in a sensory analysis of 10 different wines.  The course is $35 per person, which includes a Satek wine glass and corkscrew to keep, as well as a $15 gift certificate for Timbuktoos restaurant to enjoy dinner following the class, and a 10% discount on any Satek wines purchased that evening.  Dates available are Saturday, February 23 and Saturday, March 9, both starting at 6 pm.  Seating is limited, advance ticket purchase is required.  Click on the link below for all the details or to reserve your tickets:

Bruce England
Growers Spotlight
Bruce England and Big Run Vineyard
 

Local growers help supply Satek's increasing need for grapes. Periodically we will run a column highlighting one of our grape growers and their vineyard.

 

Grower: Bruce England

Vineyard: Big Run Vineyard, LLC, Butler, Indiana

Varietals grown: Nearly two acres altogether including: Traminette, Corot Noir, Noiret, Cayuga White, DeChaunac, and NY76.0844.24 (a yet-to-be-named grape variety from Cornell University). In 2011, he harvested 5 � tons of grapes.  Bruce will be planting � acre of Marquette this Spring.

Years growing grapes: 14

Family: Married to Auburn native Ellen (Husselman) England

Occupation: retired Pharmaceutical researcher at two small start-up biotech companies in California

 

     Bruce remembers cultivating his interest in wine in the summer of 1973 while a student at Antioch College, during a college chorus tour of Europe, followed by picking grapes in the Pouilly-Fuisse district in France in the Fall of '73. He later attended U.C. Davis in 1978-80 and earned a B.S. in Fermentation Science (Viticulture and Enology), which landed him a job at Wente Winery in Livermore, CA as assistant winemaker for four years. He continued on to do graduate work at U.C. Berkeley and earned a PhD in Biochemistry in 1990.

Big Run Vineyards     While living in California he planted 125 Pinot Noir vines in his backyard in 1998. He was able to harvest successful crops in 2001 and 2004, but lost most of the crops in 2002 and 2003 to powdery mildew.

      He and his wife Ellen moved to Auburn in 2005 and he purchased Big Run Vineyard in 2006. He planted his first 1 1/3 acres of vines in 2007, and harvested 3 tons in 2009. He says that he most enjoys spending time on his tractor, whether it be mowing, spraying, or planting; and picking grapes is enjoyable exept in weather extremes. Most challenging is leaf and shoot thinning and shoot positioning (training the vines to the trellises to get optimal grape yields) in June and July because it takes so much hand labor. 

     His advice for aspiring grape growers? "Don't quit your day job! Growing grapes is more rewarding spiritually than it is monetarily."

    Satek Winery has won several medals in the past years for its wines made from England's grapes, including a Bronze for Kreibaum Bay Dry Traminette, 2011; a Silver for Traminette, 2011; and Silver for Larry's Luscious Dry Red Wine, 2010 (a blend of Corot Noir and Noiret).

Gift Shop soon to have a new look
cheese trays and serving bowls
Cheese trays and serving dishes made from recycled wine bottles with feature a laser-engraved Satek Winery logo.

If you visit us sometime this Spring, you will hopefully see a lot of new merchandise in our

Red croc insultated wine tote with corkscrew. We'll offer several different styles and colors starting later this month.

gift shop. Two of our staff members (myself and Judy) went to the Chicago Market in mid-January to seek out new vendors and fun new items to fill our shelves. We found about a dozen or so new lines, and we are excited to have unique wine-themed and lake-themed gifts that you won't find elsewhere. From home d�cor to tabletop, gourmet foods to picnic items, we have new items coming in each month, so check back often!

Raspberry wine    

Celebrate your Perfect Complement on Valentine's Day with our Perfectly  Complementary Pair: Raspberry Wine and our Red Wine Chocolate Sauce and save $3.00!

 

With each bottle of Satek Raspberry Wine purchased with a jar of our decadent Red Wine chocolate sauce, you save $3.00!

Offer valid February 9-17, 2013. Coupon not required.