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Fun Events And News From Enoteca – Fine Wine & Beer

• Now On Tap: Grand Teton Double Vision Dopplebock (Stranahans Barrel)
      1/2 Gallon Growler Fill: $24.99, Pint: $7.99
• Name Enoteca’s Wine Contest – Win some Wine!
• Shipping Services Now Available
• Orphan Shelf: Discounts on Wine & Beer!
• What would be a great gift for someone who likes wine and/or beer?
• How is wine tasting at Enoteca different?

Name Enoteca’s Wine Contest

Wine maker Gordy Venneri from Walla Walla Vintners is working with us to put our own wine name on an incredible 100% Syrah made from Lewis Vineyard grapes that will be a Reserve Red wine club selection in an upcoming month. We were knocking about a few name ideas, and decided it would be fun to have a wine naming contest!

Here are the tasting notes for the wine itself:
Blackberry and violet on the nose with hints of rose petal and roasted game. Dense and chewy with flavors of pomegranate, currant and plum. Earth and spice highlight the long finish.

Here’s how the contest works:

1. Email us your wine name idea. We will be taking submissions for 1 week.
2. We will pick a handful that we like from the submissions we receive.
3. Voting will be open on corkjoy.com for 1 week.
4. The winning candidate will get a free bottle of the wine, and the honour of choosing the name!

Fire up your creative juices, and send us your ideas!

Iberian Penninsula Wine Tasting this weekend with Michael Williams

This Friday from 12-7 Enoteca will be sharing a selection of Spanish and Portugeuse wines with L2 Sommelier Michael Williams. Come to learn more about these fantastic wines that provide huge value at a great price. Come with your questions on Friday, Michael can answer them! We’ll be tasting these wines Saturday from 12-7 as well, which is a great time to beat the rush!

We want to give you the opportunity to “try before you buy” so we offer a flight of wine for a low cost. Taste a flight (2 oz. each of 5 wines) for $10 per flight, and follow up with a glass.

Gran Gesta Cava Brut Reserva
(Catalonia, Spain)
Spain has been producing sparkling wine (Cava) for more than one hundred years. Cava shares with Champagne the same elaboration method but has completely differentiated characteristics stemming from the use of Spanish indigenous grapes (Macabeo, Xarel-lo and Parellada) and the influence of the Mediterranean climate and soil.

Within Spain, the production of Cava is mainly concentrated in the Sant Sadurni de Noia region of Catalonia.

90 Points Wine Enthusiast, with this review:

This is a pleasant surprise. From the first sniff you know it’s fresh and well made. Butterscotch, apple and yeast aromas create a swell bouquet, which is followed by round apple, pineapple and white-raisin flavors. It’s big, smooth and stands out from the crowd in a positive way.

Grapes: Macabeo, Xarel-lo and Parellada

Vina Alarba Old Vine Grenache
(Calatayud, Spain)
88 Points Wine Advocate, here’s what they said:

The outstanding Vina Alarba Old Vines boasts a deep ruby/purple color, full body, and wonderful kirsch liqueur and raspberry aromas and flavors interwoven with hints of licorice as well as minerals. This stunning effort is almost too good to be true.

100% Garnacha (50-70 year old vines)

Legon Roble
(Ribera del Duero, Spain)
Located between Pedrosa and Roa, at an altitude of 1200 feet, well drained soils and a harsh continental weather with extreme temperature contrasts are considered amongst the best in the appellation and provide excellent growing conditions for the Tinto Fino. The lack of water limits the density of vines significantly.

Tasting notes of cedar, spice, and vanilla as well as a floral component. It is a surprisingly large-scaled effort with plenty of black fruits and tannin filling out the wine’s midsection.

90 Points Wine Advocate, Top 100 Wine of the Year

100% Tempranillo from 35 Year Old Vines

Maritavora Tinto Douro
(Douro, Portugal)
40% of the wine was fermented in stone lagares and foot trodden. The remaining 60% was fermented in temperature controlled stainless steel wine vats for 10 days. 40% in French oak for 12 months.

Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, and Touriga Nacional vines aged 15-50 years.

Quinta De La Rosa Finest Reserve Port 2007
(Douro, Portugal)
Grape Varieties
Traditional port varieties, mainly Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca and Tinta Roriz, from the older dry stone terraced vineyards at La Rosa.

Production Notes
2007 was an exceptional year for both port and wine in the Douro valley.  Excellent metrological conditions allowed optimal maturation of the grapes giving intense, concentrated and well balanced wines with rounded and mature tannins. The winter/spring was very wet replenishing the water table and leaving much moisture in the soil.  The grapes ripened slowly during a relatively cool but sunny summer.  A hot start to September allowed the sugar levels to rise quite dramatically enabling us to pick in mid September.  We knew it was likely to be a fully declared year when the grapes came into the adega (winery) in excellent condition and quality. The port was trodden by foot in granite lagares for three to four days with temperature control.  Before doing this, we pulled off some free run juice (to make into Rosé) giving extra concentration to the final port.

Maturation and bottling
The more complex lotes of 2007 were kept for 18 months in wooden oak 25 pipe tonels before being blended.  The port was bottled in June 2009.

Tasting Notes
The slow maturation of the grapes without any water stress over the summer months preserved the colour and produced fresh aromas and a balanced acidity to the wines.  The port has enormous concentration of colour, great aromatic complexity, blackberry, blackcurrant and with a hint of mint flavours.  On the palate, the port is very full bodied, with enveloping mature, ripe tannins and grip so that it will age well.

Serving Suggestions
Digestif with cheese, chocolates or on its own

Press
92-89 Wine Spectator – Cooked fruit aromas, with blackberry and cherry. Full-bodied, with chewy tannins, light sweetness and a tannic finish. This has an interesting structure. Needs to come together. But all there. Should be outstanding. – James Suckling

Remember the Orphan Shelf – 20% Off Tasty Wine & Beer

What is the Orphan Shelf? It’s our fun way of closing out wine & beer to make way for the new stuff. It’s located right at the checkout counter, and we offer a 20% discount on these products to our Wine & Beer of the Month Club Members.

Why are products orphaned? Well, basically they are forgotten. Selling great one week and yesterdays news the next. Forgotten greats that need a home. Maybe the label isn’t show stopping or it’s from an area people are not familiar with so it just sits quietly, patently waiting to be adopted. Open your heat and mind these are really great wines!

The orphan shelf has had some recent admittants. Several bottles of wine were discovered that have been waiting for a home, and some beer has even migrated to the orphan shelf. Club members receive a 20% discount whenever they adopt an orphan. Find it in your heart.

A wide range of very delicious bottles are currently up for adoption. Come peer into the glassed-over eyeballs of these little fellas and see if one of them doesn’t tug at your heart. Pleeeze sir, can I have some more?

Enoteca Fun Tasting Events Calendar

Mark your calendars for tastings at Enoteca – Fine Wine & Beer. Some are classroom format, which means we all sit down at the same time and can interact with the presenter with questions and whatnot. Our Friday & Saturday wine tastings are drop-in format, which means you can stop in any time during the tasting hours and try some excellent wine. We price our tastings to just break even on the quantity we pour for you, and our pours are quite a bit more than a typical winery tasting room experience. Join us for these excellent tasting events!

Gouden Carolous Beer Tasting
Wednesday, February 24th – 7 pm [$20 flight, classroom]

February 24th is Gouden Carolous Day, join us for this one of a kind beer tasting. Taste a vertical of Grand Cru of the Empreror from 2005-2009. Attendance strictly limited to 30 tasters.

After tasting a bunch of beers, you get to take home a glass from the brewery. $10 per person, reserve your tickets early! (be sure to specify 5 or 7 pm)


Symington Port Tasting with Christina Solga Bradburn
Thursday, March 11th – 7 pm [$10 flight, classroom]

Christina knows more about port than just about anyone, and will be sharing an amazing selection with us on March 11th. Included will be 2 dry red Portuguese wines, and just about every style of authentic port possible, all the genuine article from Porto, Portugal. Examples of what we’ll be tasting include: Graham’s 20 Year Tawny, Smith Woodhouse Colheita Porto, a Vintage Port, and a Late Bottle Vintage Port! All in all, there will be 7 wines tasted, this is a huge value in tasting. Space is limited, so get your tickets early.

$10 per person, reserve your tickets early!


Full Sail Beer Tasting with Joe Neese
Thursday, March 25th – 5 & 7 pm [$10 flight, classroom]

Joe Neese is coming back to Enoteca – Fine Wine & Beer for a Full Sail beer tasting. Full Sail of Hood River makes a fantastic set of Reserve Line beers and we’ve been stashing some here and there to fill out a great tasting lineup. Joe is excited to hold his 2nd tasting at Enoteca, and this will be one fun event! After tasting a bunch of beers, you get to take home a glass from the brewery. We’ll be holding 2 tastings, one at 5 and one at 7 pm. $10 per person, reserve your tickets early! (be sure to specify 5 or 7 pm)


You can keep yourself in the loop on Enoteca events! Subscribe to the Enoteca Google Calendar to keep up-to-date on the latest happenings!


Thank you for your support of our local family business.

Salute’

Russell and Sarah

Enoteca – Fine Wine & Beer
208-457-9885
service@corkjoy.com

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Tuesday-Saturday: 11-7

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