I Want To Band Together Again With BOSCATO, DOM CANDIDO, VINICOLA ZATTERA, DOMNO, X DECIMA, & SO MANY MORE! There's Still Time, Barry Has Reached Out To Me Recently! We Will See? Stay-Tuned ...

Always good to be close to so many fine wines from Brasil! I would like to sell them here to you all : BOSCATO , VINICOLA ZATTERA, DOM CANDIDO, X DECIMA  and so many more. I miss my conversations with Fernanda,  Ruiz, Roberto , Mr. Paris, Jones, Clovis, Bruno, Jaqueline, Barbara, Michele ... and so many more. I am thrilled to still be in contact with Ana-Paula. We need to stay together and still find a way of working together here in the United States? Barry has contacted me recently from New York, so there may still be a way! Cheers,  Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn  12/16/13

Some of Brasil's real treasures in food that I have grown to like quite a bit and which I think that some of the SALTON Pinot Noir dry red might go especially well with? I am sure game to give it a try? What a treat this would be? Anyone want to make some and I will provide the wine? Roberta, Krista, Fatima, Crystal? Any of you know how to make these ? What about you Stephen? Or you Mark? What fun! Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn We have the SALTON in stock ....

     This was in October 2012 right here in northern Virginia in Woodbridge at our Brazilian Wine-Tasting of the above-mentioned wineries.

     The picture above was the first sightings of these wines that we would open later and share with retail and restauranteurs, brokers, wholesalers, and Transo reps interested in our project to bring these fine wines to the United States to sell.

     
     THese two pictures I took in late June 2012 in the Vale Dos Vinhedos just below the wine center of Bento Goncalves. What a grand experience that was for me : 10 glorious days in Brazil's wine country! Impressive.

     It;s beautiful there, I still remember it vividly now on Monday night, December 16th, 2013 , and I would still love to work with these fine wineries here in the United States. I just need someone to bank-roll the operation as my partner at the time bailed on me and did not pay me a penny. That's okay, I loved the experience and want to proceed even without him as I believe wholeheartedly in this mission to get these fine wines here to the United States! Cheers, Happy Holidays everyone 2013!!   TONY

Dave McIntyre Just Wrote & Published In The Washington Post Newspaper An Article On International Sparkling Wines To Enjoy For The Holidays : I Believe THat Brazilian Sparkling-Espumantes Deserve To Be Included As They Are Excellent & Getting Better

In response to Dave McIntyre's recent post here on Facebook on sparkling wines to enjoy for the holidays...

 At our Big-Theme Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits Sparkling Bubbly-Champagne tasting of thirty-five wines we introduced the SALTON Brut and the SALTON Espumante Moscatel ( both $14.99 ) that showed beautifully from Serra Gaucha and were a pretty big hit, sold quite a bit, too : as no one knew these two sparkling wines from Brazil, and with both the Soccer World Cup and the Olympics coming soon there they were quite the conversation and eye-opener Dave. Have you tried them yet? Enjoyed your article. Enjoy most of them and am sorry to say that I often have to defend them as being relevant, insightful and well-written. Cheers, happy holidays 2013, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn  12/16/13, ...

  I  wrote this just now to Dave

Roberta's Off To Porto Allegre, Brazil To Visit Her Mother & Wants Suggestions Of Where To Go Around Bento Goncalves To Visit The Better Brazilian Wineries?!? Cheers, Have Fun Roberta, We Will Help You With This, Happy New Year 2014!

Roberta stopped by a couple of days ago and told me she's off to see her mother in Porto Allegre soon and she bought a bottle of the CASA VALDUGA 2007 Reserva Merlot, $19.99, and a bottle of the SALTON Pinot Noir as well. Can't wait to see what she thinks of both of them? Both are dry with good balance and complexity, and both are better with food than alone. Cheers and enjoy Roberta!  Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn  12/15/13

" Doing Thai " Eladio said to me. " Not going to be fancy, a friend of a friend ... " he continues. Eladio said : " Around twenty." Eladio answered when I asked him what he wanted to spend. I already knew that with " a friend of a friend " that it had to be more about tasty and flavorful to match the flavors of the Thai food. I sold Eladio a bottle of our 2007 Merlot from the CASA VALDUGA winery in the Valle Dos Vinhedos, $19.99 just south of the wine capitol of Bento Goncalves. I told him that it was flavorful and dry like a good bottle of French Bordeaux or even an Italian Friuli or Veneto dry red, as the ancestors of CASA VALDUGA are either from Trentino or Veneto, Italy. Eladio seemed pleased and he mentioned the World Soccer Cup  in Brazil. So, now all I have to do is wait to hear from Eladio. Cheers, Happy New Year Eladio. Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn  1/12/14

Making A Concerted Effort @ Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits, Northwest, Washington D.C., 20008 To Bring The Wines Of Brazil To Our Customer's Attention With CASA VALDUGA Merlot 2007, LIDIO CARRARO Chardonnay & SALTON Brut E Moscatel Espumantes-Sparkling Wines, & LEBLON Cachaca, Too : Cheers, Happy Holidays 2013!

Yesterday through the Country Vintners Imports in Ashland, Virginia and my local rep Arielle Monaco I ordered some of the 2007 Merlot of the CASA VALDUGA ( had a request for some at our Big-Theme BUBBLY wine-tasting and we are completely out of it! ) winery in Bento Goncalves, southern Brazil, Serra Gaucha to come to the store as we need some hearty, flavorful red to sell along with our dry and flavorful white Chardonnay from LIDIO CARRARA and our sparkling wines - espumantes - a Brut and a Moscatel from SALTON : ALL from Brasil, to sell during these holiday season, especially as we have Fatima I believe here name is coming to do a LEBLON Cachaca in-store tasting this Saturday, December 14th, 2013 from 4-7 PM I believe? No charge, join us , everyone always welcome @ Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits at 3423 Connecticut Northwest, 20008 , Washington D.C., 202-363-4265, anyhtony.quinn@clevelandparkwines.com. Come celebrate with us this weekend and SUPPORT BRAZIL - let's make MORE NOISE for Brazil!  Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn

They are all really fine, they all deserve our attention. Come by, check them out : let's all discover and TALK BRAZIL!     TONY


" Doing Thai " Eladio said to me. " Not going to be fancy, a friend of a friend ... " he continues. Eladio said : " Around twenty." Eladio answered when I asked him what he wanted to spend. I already knew that with " a friend of a friend " that it had to be more about tasty and flavorful to match the flavors of the Thai food. I sold Eladio a bottle of our 2007 Merlot from the CASA VALDUGA winery in the Valle Dos Vinhedos, $19.99 just south of the wine capitol of Bento Goncalves. I told him that it was flavorful and dry like a good bottle of French Bordeaux or even an Italian Friuli or Veneto dry red, as the ancestors of CASA VALDUGA are either from Trentino or Veneto, Italy. Eladio seemed pleased and he mentioned the World Soccer Cup  in Brazil. So, now all I have to do is wait to hear from Eladio. Cheers, Happy New Year Eladio. Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn  1/12/14

Enjoying Tonight @ Home In Northern Virginia With My Wife On Sunday December 8th, 2013 A Bottle Of SALTON Brut Non-Vintage Espumante Sparkling Wine, $14.99 : Lovely! Happy Holidays Everyone 2013!!

Brought a bottle of the SALTON Brut espumante sparkling wine home last night, Saturday Deecember 7th, 2013 to enjoy here in northern Virginia with my family. Turns out we enjoyed it just my wife and I here on a snowy white late afternoon, early evening while listening to the c.d. by Jim Stutsman called his : " Winter Sampler " of old, classic songs that he puts together to share seasonally. he was the drummer since the beginning of the Washington Opera that performs at the Kennedy Center here in Washington D.C., Northwest. We love the music he assembles and shares with his friends. Tonight was no exception. We enjoyed the SALTON Brut, $14.99 ( the price at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008, Tel : 202-363-4265  anthony.quinn@clevelandparkwines.com ) - we tasted it to grand success this past Wednesday at our Big-Theme Sparkling Wine-Tasting of 35 different bubblies . Tonight it showed really well all by itself before I brought out the cheeses : a creamy American herbed goat's cheese, a " Crotin de Chevre " and a " Brie De Meaux " that my daughter purchased and brought back last week from the Charles de Gaulle airport outside of Paris, France. The Brie de Meaux was fabulous with the SALTON, it worked beautifully, even with an older brie like this. That was a nice thing to notice. It was a delight, and we enjoyed it thoroughly, finishing the bottle over two-three hours just the two of us. Obregado SALTON Brut espumante!  Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn 12/8/13