Enoteca News: May Club is in!
What’s Fresh At Enoteca?
- May Wine & Beer Club in this Friday!
- Freestyle Beer Tasting
- Sierra Nevada Beer Tasting With Chris Hem
- Upcoming Tasting Events
- What is Wine & Beer Club?
Request Your Favorite Wine & Beer:
Have you had a great wine or beer at a restaurant, and would like to take a bottle home? Have you read about something and would like to try it for yourself? Do you have a favorite wine or beer that you’d like to see conveniently available at Enoteca in Post Falls? If there are any products you’re interested in, we are happy to track them down for you. Especially hard to find and specialty products! Simply fill out this form and we will do the hunting.
Have you had a great wine or beer at a restaurant, and would like to take a bottle home? Have you read about something and would like to try it for yourself? Do you have a favorite wine or beer that you’d like to see conveniently available at Enoteca in Post Falls? If there are any products you’re interested in, we are happy to track them down for you. Especially hard to find and specialty products! Simply fill out this form and we will do the hunting.
May Wine & Beer Club is in!
The wine and beer for this month’s club has arrived and will be in your bin on Friday, May 2nd! If you’re not a Club Member yet, learn about the Wine & Beer Club?Wine & Beer Club is rolling out this Friday, and tasting is from 4-7 Friday night. We will be tasting Saturday from 12-7 as well, which is a great time to taste wine to beat the rush. The cost is $10 per flight (3 oz. each of 3 wines), $5 per glass (5 oz. of one wine), and $10 for the Anniversary Club Red, glass pour only.
The lineup for Club and Tasting:
Vintage Club
Spann Vineyards Becky’s Backacher Mayacamas Range Red N/V (California)
The winemakers made a small amount of this blend from the back acre of their property to give to friends who got a backache from working harvest. This serious, fun-loving, drink-me-now wine is great by itself but also with barbeque, pizza or other richly flavored foods.
This Backacher is dark red/black in color, has a lush nose of black licorice, red cherries and plums and a taste that follows; juicy red cherries and black licorice. Yum!
36% Merlot, 28% Carignan, 18% Syrah, 11% Cabernet Sauvignon & 7% Petite Sirah
Spann Vineyards Becky’s Backacher Bottle Blonde 2006 (North Coast, California)
You: Seeking pleasure…..Wanting to try something new and provocative.
Me: Waiting for that special someone to share my qualities with……Perfectly proportioned, easy on the palate…..Ready for a walk on the beach or a candlelight dinner…..With this blond you’ll have more fun.
The intriguing aroma is of crisp apples and anise. The taste is rich and creamy with no one varietal dominating. Chardonnay gives this wine it’s crisp, refreshing taste and long finish while Semillon adds the creamy texture and rich mouth-feel and Viognier adds a hint of ripe apricot to the overall impression. This wine is great by itself and a good match for lighter seafood or fowl dishes.
67% Chardonnay, 22% Semillon, 11% Viognier
Reserve Club
Benziger Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 (Sonoma, California)
This wine is full-bodied and round with well integrated tannins for a smooth finish. The initial aroma contains dark berry fruit with a hint of earthiness. In the mouth the wine is intensely flavored with components of cherry, cedar, tobacco, toast, herbs, and blackberry. Enjoy this wine with grilled meats, beef stew, and decadently chocolate desserts.
Grape lots from three of the Bordeaux varietals – Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Malbec – were blended from several benchland and mountain ranches that naturally yield smaller crops and result in intensely colored and flavored wine.
This wine was made with grapes grown by sustainable farming methods.
St. Supery Sauvignon Blanc 2006 (Napa Valley, California)
The 2006 Sauvignon Blanc is another hit in a long history of fabulous white wines from St. Supéry. There is plenty of elegant lime juice, honeysuckle and fresh pineapple in the aroma. On the palate flavors of ruby grapefruit, lime and straw fill out the mouth. This wine is refreshing, lively and persistent.
100% Sauvignon Blanc
Premier Club
Alexandria Nicole Destiny Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2003 (Horse Heaven Hills, Washington)
Carefully selected, blended and barrel aged for 22 months this estate Cabernet Sauvignon from the Destiny Ridge Estate Vineyard is loaded with dark berry flavors, hints of chocolate, rose petals, spice, pencil lead, dried herbs, tobacco, and toasty oak nuances. Its bold structure is balanced throughout with refined, yet powerful tannins that are backed by well integrated oak, pure complexity, and a lengthy finish.
91% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Merlot, 3% Malbec, and 2% Cabernet Franc
Huia Pinot Gris 2006 (New Zealand)
The 2006 Pinot Gris was grown on the Anderson’s vineyard in the upper Brancott Valley and Huia Winsome Block on the clay run off from the Wither Hills. On the Anderson Vineyard the soils are north facing, gently sloping, free draining clay loam with a few stones. Both blocks have a variety of old (Mission or Petit Grain) and more recently imported cultivars.
The grapes were hand-picked for optimum flavour. Once at the winery the grapes were crushed, pressed and then settled overnight. Around fifty percent of the juice underwent a natural ferment and the remaining juice being inoculated with re-hydrated wine yeast. Once the initial heat of the ferment had dissipated, forty percent of the still gently fermenting Pinot Gris was moved into French oak to complete ferment and so the lees could be stirred. Then the wine was blended and prepared for bottling.
The nose reveals intense ripe pear character, white peach and rich exotic spices. Lovely soft texture with layers of white fruit, nuts and spices. This wine shows an excellent palate length and structure.
Huia Pinot Gris is delicious with: seafood risotto, roasted and casseroled game, Thai food, grilled salmon and fresh water trout, seared game fish, rare beef salad, light blue cheese and walnut tart.
Anniversary Club Red
Boudreaux Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 (Washington State)
Winemaker Rob Newsom’s notes:
Ten vineyards and seven grape varietals combine with several forests of oak to deliver this complex, old-world style wine. I set out to make something interesting with subtle layers of intriguing flavors. The cab was gorgeous, the merlot full and smooth, the cab franc aromatic, the malbec grainy, the petite verdot tannic and dark, the sangio spicy, the syrah earthy and good old stinky. We stored the wines separately in the cellars for 26 months in French, Hungarian, Russian, Minnesota, and Appalachian oaks. Some of the Minnesota barrels were toasted using chunks of sweet, smoky hickory from Louisiana. The barrels were blended in big French oak tanks for several months of flavor assimilation.The 2004 received 91 points from Robert Parker. We still have a couple magnums of that vintage available.
This wine is young and should develop into a complicated beauty.
The wine is smooth, deep, layers of ripe caramelized fruit from probably the best Washington vintage ever, from ten great vineyards, in six appellations.
Varieties: 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Merlot, 4% Cab Franc, 3% Malbec, 3% Petite Verdot, 2% Syrah, 2% Sangiovese
Vineyards: Bacchus 18%, Champoux 3%, Katherine Leone 3%, Klipsun 4%, Loess 9%, Pepper Bridge 18%, Seven Hills 18%, Snipes Canyon 3%, Wallula 18%, Weinbeau 3%
Beer Club
Beer Club members receive 5 bottles of beer this month! Beer Club selections are not open for the tasting event, but a few bottles are available for purchase.
Attention Beer Lovers: Look further down this email for information on the upcoming
Sierra Nevada tasting! Don’t miss it!
Hale’s Ales Troll Porter (Seattle, Washington)
When you set out to make a beer that’s gonna keep a troll happy, it better have a lot to chew on. This one does. Troll Porter pushes the porter category to a new edge–big, complex, quite black with herbal hop influences– enough to keep that grouchy old troll off your back, at least for a while…
Ingredients: Pale malted barley, Carastan, Caramel, Chocolate, Black and Special Roast Malts, Nugget and Mount Hood hops, Hale’s special yeast and filtered water.
6.9% ABV, Original Gravity: 1.068
Hale’s Ales Mongoose IPA (Seattle, Washington)
Right from it’s introduction in the summer of 2002, Hale’s Mongoose IPA has been enthusiastically received by hop-head fans throughout the Northwest. Nearly 50 pounds of hops are used in making this flavorful beer, including an abundance of Amarillo leaf hops.The end result is an IPA with a wonderful aromatic hop bouquet, a pleasant hop bitterness with citrus overtones and a deliciously round and lingering aftertaste.
Ingredients: Pale malted barley, Crystal malts, Centennial and Nugget hops, Hale’s special yeast and filtered water.
6.2% ABV, Original Gravity 1.060
Hale’s Ales Red Menace Big Amber (Seattle, Washington)
“Red Menace Big Amber” is out to revolutionize the world of Amber ales–this one’s big (like the name says!), full flavored and hoppy. Taste one and you’ll want to join the party.
Ingredients:Pale malted barley, Caramel and Carastan malts, a handful of Black Malt, and 100% Centennial hops, Hale’s special yeast and filtered water.
Original Gravity: 1.056
Hale’s Ales Pikop Andropov’s Rushin’ Imperial Stout (Seattle, Washington)
Big and bold, this black beauty has all the “stuff” to earn the title “Imperial”. Six different types of malt, a complex hop profile, and 7.5% ABV. This beer is an inky black, impressive beer that pours a dark brown head. Roasty flavors of mocha, spice, and more will come through.
7.5% ABV
Full Sail Old Boardhead Barleywine (Hood River, Oregon)
This smooth and fruity Barleywine ale is a delicious brew to sip for it’s depth and delicacy of flavor. The aroma is citrus and hoppy, with some caramel maltiness. Deep and robust, it is brewed using two-row Pale, Dextrin and Crystal malts, combined with flaked barley, to give it a strong malty body. Hopped with Willamette, Styrian, Goldings and Centennial hops, Old Boardhead Barleywine finishes with a pleasant hoppiness.
Like all Barleywine’s, this beer can be aged for up to a few years to allow the flavors to integrate and mellow in the bottle. Store in a cool dark place that doesn’t experience temperature fluxuations. Try an experiment with several bottles aged and tasted every 3-6 months!
9% ABV, 91 IBU’s
Check Out! In order to keep track of your Wine & Beer, we use a “Check Out” procedure.
When you come to pick up your Wine & Beer, please momentarily stop by the counter and check out.
Club members receive receipts by email.
Freestyle Beer Tasting
Freestyle Beer Tasting - Thursday, May 8th from 5-7 p.m.
Thursday, May 8th, from 5-7 at Enoteca we will be holding a Freestyle Beer tasting! It’s simple: just show up buy a beer, and share it. The folks next to you will do the same and you both get to try some new and interesting beer. Bring your friends!
Hop-heads take notice, we’ve gotten in some great hoppy beers lately, with words like IPA, and Imperial IPA written all over them.
What is Freestyle Beer Tasting? Learn more here!
May Beer Tasting - Sierra Nevada with Chris Hem
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Sierra Nevada Beer Tasting Thursday, May 22nd Beginning at 6 p.m. Taste 4-5 or so beers Only $10 per person |
The May Beer Tasting is going to be great! Enoteca is hosting Chris Hem
from Sierra Nevada.
Do you think Sierra Nevada is all about the Pale Ale? It’s a great beer, but there is much
more to be tasted from this brewery.
We will be tasting some new and exciting Hoppy Beer from the Chico
hop superstars. Can you imagine a beer made with hops from New Zealand? What would that be
like? Sierra Nevada Brewing Company has a proud history as one of the pioneers of the craft
brewing industry and as a brewer of award-winning beers since 1981. Chris Hem always comes
with a pile of stories and great information about these hoppy beers.
The tasting starts at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 22nd. Tickets to attend are $10, paid in advance. Attendees will receive a beer glass and most importantly, learn about, and taste, more great beer! Email us at service@corkjoy.com to reserve space, or call 208-457-9885. To be made aware of future beer tasting events, join the email list at www.corkjoy.com |
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Tasting Events Coming Soon
Mark your calendars; Enoteca has a great lineup for the next few weeks. Join us for these excellent tasting events! More details will be available in this newsletter, as well as any changes that might come up.
Friday, May 2nd - 4-7 pm
Taste of Club! May Wine & Beer of the Month Club! Club tasting event, taste all the wine club wines! This is a great opportunity to see what the Club is all about, and to see what others are getting in their bins. We will taste these wines on Saturday, May 3rd as well, from 12-7.
Thursday, May 8th - 5-7 pm
Freestyle Beer Tasting! Simply show up, buy a beer off the shelf, and share it with friends. Someone else will share with you and everybody gets to taste great beer!
Friday, May 9th - 4-7 pm
Two Mountain Winery wine tasting! Come try these excellent examples of Washington wine and meet someone from the winery. We will taste these wines on Saturday, May 10th as well, from 12-7.
Friday, May 16th - 4-7 pm
Syrah, Shiraz, What’s Up With That? Wine Tasting. Try a line up that includes Syrah from around the world under the guise of “Syrah” and “Shiraz.” We will taste these wines on Saturday, May 17th as well, from 12-7.
Thursday, May 22nd - 6 pm
Beer Tasting! Enoteca will be hosting Chris Hem as he pours a lineup of excellent and new Sierra Nevada beer. Only $10 per person. Email us at service@corkjoy.com to reserve space, or call 208-457-9885.
Friday, May 23rd - 4-7 pm
Chinook Winery Wine Tasting with Darin Roberson of Vehrs. Try this selection of Washington wine that impressed the Enoteca staff at a recent trade show for it’s solid flavor and affordable price. We will taste these wines on Saturday, May 24th as well, from 12-7.
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Google Calendar to keep up-to-date on the latest happenings!Salute’
Russell, Sarah, and Roger
Enoteca - Fine Wine & Beer
208-457-9885
service@corkjoy.com
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