Tuesday, June 24, 2014
I Would Have Gladly Written About Something From Brasil Back On Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 But There Was Very Little Being Brought For Me To Taste : Not Good! Cheers, ...
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We'RE GETTING READY FOR SUMMER / let's do it together, make the most of it! we'd
love to be a part of it with you! More time to simply " be ".
I am taking to heart the words of the singer/producer named usher on the popular
singing show last night called " The Voice ". He basically said of the remaining
contestants that they had already proved themselves and that he wanted them
including Michele his last-remaining team member " to Be ", and to enjoy the
moment, that they would probably revisit it many times later together.
That's some good advice and I do believe that she took it to heart, too as she
performed fabulously last night along with the other three contestants. You have
all worked hard and proven yourselves, too I am sure and can now hopefully take
a moment just " to be " and to enjoy the fruits of your labors?! One would hope
so, I would hope so, I see you come to the store having put in the many hours,
having traveled much, having met the crunch of a deadline, having worked through
the office politics and all the rest.
HOPE EVERYONE ENJOYED FATHER'S DAY! Mine was very special. We have some very
special things here for you all to enjoy now. You will have to come by and check
them out. I will mention some of them here as it has been a period of mad
activity here for us all as we have received some of the shipments of ale, beer,
ciders, liquor and wines that we have been waiting patiently for. NOW we can
finally talk about them with you and not bite our tongues with the excitement
over them. That's good : it's all good. It's good / it's actually grand for us "
to be " here for you with many suggestions.
ALE & BEER From Santos :
1) Hoppy Bock Lager from HOP KITCHEN ( On Special for $6.99 a 6.9 Alcohol
by volume, 1 Pt. 6 Fl. Oz Bottle, from NEW BELGIUM Brewing, Fort Collins, CO. ,
www.newbelgium.com ) : " Meet the first ... A German-style springtime lager
brewed with rye then loaded with Hallertauer. Perle and Fuggle hops for a spicy,
earthy aroma... medium body and a slightly sweet malt character perfect for ...
" You get the picture? Good into the summer. too!
2) KALNAPILIS " Original " Lithuanian Lager Beer ( On Special for $2.99, 1
Pt, .9 Fl. Oz, 5% Alcohol by volume, since 1902, ) : you all have to check this
out, not heavy for this hot weather! Cheers.
3) " Karma " from AVERY BREWING Co. , this " Limited Release "
Belgian-style Pale Ale ( On Special for 10.99 a 6-pack of 12 ounce bottles, 5.4%
alcohol by volume, Boulder, Colorado, ) : " Good ale happens to good people ...
Inspired by the principle of Karma and the wonderful farmhouse and pale ales of
Belgium, we have created this bright and estery Belgium-style ale... Here's to
being good! " Cheers!
4) " Farm House " Summer Ale from FLYING FISH Brewing Company ( On Special
for $10.99 a 6-pack of 12-ounce bottles, 4.6% alcohol by volume, Somerdale , NJ,
www.flyingfish.com ) : " Farmhouse Summer Ale is a perfect complement to all
those great things we do while enjoying Daytime Savings Time."
LIQUOR & LIQUEUR From Ravi :
LIQUEUR -
1) " Cactus Juice " Margarita Liqueur from DEKUYPER ( $13.99 a liter, ) : "
Cactus Juice brings you the refreshing flavor of an authentic Mexican Margarita.
It's blended with Agave Tequila, the flavor is succulent orange & fresh-squeezed
lime, & the legendary DeKuyper quality to taste delicious. Come check into the
DESERT THRILLER MARGARITA on the back label. Cheers!
2) Virginia Brandy Hand-Crafted- Small Barrel CATOCTIN CREEK from Loudon
County ( $46.99, 40% alcohol by volume, Batch B12HI ), made by owners Becky and
Scott and taste here recently by Chad. Thanks Chad! " Each carefully crafted
batch is made from the finest Virginia wine grapes and distilled and bottled
entirely by hand. " Thanks, good luck with your new distillery, the photos look
amazing and we have shared them on our Facebook page at : Cleveland Park Wines &
Spirits. Check it out, " like " us ...follow us when you can, become a part of
the Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits family .
LIQUOR :
1) Caledonia Spirits BARR HILL Gin, a Spirit of Vermont ( $44.99 a 750ml
bottle, 45% alcohol by volume, Hardwick, Vermont, 05843 802-472-8000 ,
www.caledoniaspirits.com ) : " The best fertilizer is always the footprint of
the farmer ". This Gin is made with Juniper and raw honey. Go to our Facebook
page to see the pictures : Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits . Cheers. " This gin
is a celebration of our connection to the land. We use pure grain spirits as a
canvas to showcase juniper berry and raw northern honey."
2) Spring/ Summer 2013 GREENHAT Distilled Gin from Washington D.C. ( $34.99
, 45% alcohol by volume, www.greenhatgin.com ) " Every man has his vice... even
Congressmen. " We had one of the owners Saul Mutchnick here this past Saturday
in the store ( Sales Vice President ) here tasting the regular bottle. Saul said
that this SPRING/SUMMER 2013 was such a small batch that he could not sample it
out with our customers. The regular has been selling like " hot cakes " and so I
am sure we will sell this " new " seasonal-release well and taste it out with
you all as soon as we are able. People loved it : Saul sold it really well for
us. ALL GOOD. Cheers, thanks Saul.
WINE from Michel & Tony :
WHITE :
1) " Perle " LABASTIDE 2012, $10.99, dry white from France's southwest
region Gaiilac , 12% alcohol by volume , made from the Mauzac grape as I
recall, with some fizz like you get in a Portuguese Vinho Verde, and PERFECT FOR
this summer now starting officially this Friday, June 21st, and the humidity,
too!
YEARS AGO back in the 1980's I drove myself to Gaillac to taste this "
Perle " with the owner and I was parched from my hot drive and asked for water
when I arrived. He was upset that I did not want his wine instead : all in good
time I replied! ENJOY.
2) " Gentiles " 2011 dry white Bordeaux from the CHATEAU CROIX des GENTILS
, $10.99, 12.5% alcohol by volume, Pellegrue, Gironde, mis en bouteille par P.
Riviere : ALSO very refreshing and bright for our official summer this weekend!
ROSE :
1) " Chiaretto " Classico Veneto , Bardolino dry rose from MARCHESINI DOC
201 ( $13.99 , 12% alcohol by volume , Lazise ) blew Michel and me away the
other day for it's elegance, finesse and charm, brightness, conversation, happy
and lively demeanor and beautiful color, too. A win-wine-win situation through
and through until through and ready for more! Cheers.
2) GANETA bristling DRY, slightly sparkling Basque country Getariako
Txakolina rose ( $21.99, 11% alcohol by volume, Julian Ostolaza Manterola Y
Otra, C.B. , www.tradewindsSpecialty.com ) : Estebe, the owner of Tradewinds
Specialty was just here tasting this himself with our customers that loved it.
Very rare, only two producers of the rose, and Estebe got very little. We have
some bottles here now and may be able to get more? We will ask Estebe. Come and
get this " rare and wonderful " experience under your belts. AMAZING, so
pleasing.
REDS :
1) Barbera Del Monferrato from Grazzano ( $8.99 , 13% alcohol by volume )
has been a favorite of ours and our customers now for years. It's back in stock
again having come back from Italy's Piemonte region where Mauro makes it for us
specially! You are the very best Mauro!
2) Tempranillo dry red from Spain's Valencia region , made by MARQUES
DeZENETTE, this 2012 , $8.99, 13.5% alcohol by volume ) : this is
quintessentially fine Spanish dry red wine, spicy, flavorful,
medium-to-light-bodied and delicious with food, this heat and even this
humidity. Chill 20-30 minutes and enjoy. Cheers.
3) 2010 CHATEAU CROIX Des GENTILS dry red Bordeaux blend ( $10.99 a bottle,
12.5% alcohol by volume ) is a pure delight to drink. It's also quintessential
GREAT VALUE/ inexpensive Bordeaux and why I fell in love with it years ago and
still love it when it tastes like this! WOW!!
4) 2009 Risco Vinho Regional Peninsula de Setubal, $10.99, 14% alcohol by
volume; so tasty and flavorful, balanced, a FINE FOOD dry red, great for when
you grill, chill slightly, and want to be outside! This is really very good and
so reasonably-priced : loved it immediately, yes!
5) Malbec- Syrah 2011 Valle de Uco Mendoza from PERLITA by Diam Andes,
$10.99, 14.5% alcohol by volume, www.diamandes.com : hearty, beefy, robust and
very flavorful with a smack and a splash of intense flavors that need some food
to flesh out their flavors.
6) Aglianico from ARCOS, this 2010 from Sicily, $10.99, 13.5% alcohol by
volume ) : again, really tasty and a very fine food wine and a fine, FINE VALUE,
too! What a treat! So many fine wines at such great values.
7) Chianti DOCG 2010 from the TENUTA La CIPRESSAIA , $14.99 that we tasted
here last Friday with Brigitte's help of Il Pioppo imports was showing
beautifully, medium-to-light-bodied, spicy, earthy, dusty-dry, with everything
in balance and calling out ever-so-gently for some food to accompany it on it's
journey to please us all. Tasty. Try some! The real taste, the classic flavors
of Chianti here inside this bottle/
8) HAUNER CARLO 2009 " Salina Rosso " from Sicily, $18.99, 13.5% alcohol by
volume, www.bacchanalwines.com , Santa Marina Salina ) is a hearty and
flavorful, spice and earth and dried grape delight red blend of Sicily's Nerello
Mascalese and Nero D'Avola grapes. Another fabulous food wine when you grill,
want to be outside, chill it 30 minutes, let it warm gradually, focus all it's
flavors and energize them ... and DELIGHT your palate with all it's history,
character, and experiences and overheard conversations/ actions in the
vineyards! Yes!
9) Pinot Noir 2010 from New Zealand's Marlborough region, this FORREST Kiwi
dry red, $26.99, 14% alcohol by volume, www.forrest.co.nz is the exact opposite
of the HAUNER : clean, fresh , bright, elegant, even quite delicate and refined.
A treat to enjoy with or without any food, also inside or outside, in the heat
and humidity, in the shade and even for awhile in the bright sunshine! Cheers,
thanks Eric Platt and owner Dr. John Forrest.
WEEKLY WEDNESDAY Non-Sparkling / Still Wine 3-Part SALE :
1) BUY ANY $20 Or More Still/No-Sparkling Wine and SAVE 20% OFF the marked
sticker price.
2) BUY ANY 6 Or MORE Non-Sparkling Wines & SAVE 15% OFF the marked sticker
prices.
3) BUY ANY 12 Or MORE Bottles of Still/Non-Sparkling Wines & SAVE 20% OFF
the marked sticker prices.
IF YOU CANNOT come in person tomorrow CALL Michel or me ( Tony ) at :
202-363-4265, or respond to this store email with your orders, and we will take
care of them for you so that you may SAVE BIG with us here at CP WINES & SPIRITS
every Wednesday, rain or snow or cold or heat - always SAVE! Let us help you.
NEWS UPDATE , Happening Right Now : Owner John Forrest of the FORREST WINERY in
New Zealand is here in town and will be here in the store to say " hello " with
importer Eric Platt. It's Dr. John Forrest! Have met John once before and
enjoyed it immensely! Cheers.
WEEKEND TASTINGS :
Friday, June 21st ( the FIRST OFFICIAL day of summer ), we have Theresa
Morrison here tasting her " new " California releases , her CHATEAU BIANCA
Willamette Valley Chardonnay 2008 On Special for $9.99 a bottle, her South
African wines from DE MEYE, the Cabernet Sauvignon and the dry Chenin Blanc, and
more. What fun! There's always something fun and exciting with John and Theresa
Morrison. JOIN US, NEVER any charge!
ALSO : Santos has orchestrated a SARANAC beer tasting of all their flavors
at the same time.
Saturday, June 22nd, 2010 ( 2-6PM ) : We have the owner himself of DLC :
DISTILLERY LANE CIDERWORKS here from Jefferson, Maryland, www.ciderapples.com to
pour some of all of his 4 dry apple ciders for us to taste and enjoy, including
one of the 4 that is sparkling. We have tried them all, most sell for under $20
a bottle and they are really refreshing, bright, tasty, distinct, filled with so
much personal taste and experience : 1) Celebration Cider Hard Cider, 2)
Kingston Black Hard Cider, 3) the Jefferson Hard Cider and one more : using the
apples of 1) St. Edmund's Russet, 2) Red Gravenstein, 3) Summer Rambo, 4)
Jefferts, 5) Ashmead's Kernel, 6) Freedom, 7) Liberty, 8) Roxbury Russet, 9)
Fortune, 10) Splendour, 11) Bramley's Seedling, 12) Goldrush, 13) & Arkansas
Black and with alcohols usually at 7-8%. Join us here in the store, they are
located at : 5533 Gapland Road, Jefferson, MD 21755 , located just outside of
Burkittsville, MD.
JOIN US, meet the owner and taste, NEVER any charge. LEARN ABOUT the
wonderful world of local apple hard ciders.
ALSO : Gluten-Free! Cheers ...
I KNOW I HAVE FORGOTTEN MANY THINGS but it is time to post this store email and
get it into your hands ASAP! Time for me to proof it now, thank you - THANK YOU!
- and push the SEND button here! Cheers, " Like " us and follow us on our
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Saturday, June 21, 2014
Tasting CACHACA Sao Paulo Brazilian Alambique Cachaca Today, Saturday, June 21st, 2014 With Owners Pierre Fernandes & His Family @ Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits From 4-7PM : Join Us, Never Any Charge!
SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2014
Tasting CACHACA Sao Paulo Brazilian Alambique Cachaca Today, Saturday, June 21st, 2014 With Owners Pierre Fernandes & His Family @ Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits From 4-7PM : Join Us, Never Any Charge!
Cleveland Park Wine & Spirits Obregado Zuly, Esther e Anni, we cannot wait to meet Pierre and Marcos later today! This will be a great event indeed as I do not think many people know how Brazilian Cachaca is made, and as you all use the best method, the alambique method that I believe is French in origin ( ? ) , and only charge $15.99 for a liter of it - wow, that's amazing! Really amazing! I am impressed. I cannot wait to learn more myself as I really do love selling and representing the many products of Brazil that still need lots of help here to become better-known in this country. ... I very much enjoyed talking with Pierre and learning what he had to say. I love that you all had a heart-to-heart discussion about the Soccer World Cup and whether to go there as a family or not or stay here in the United States and work hard to promote your CACHASA SP. I still cannot find your US Facebook page for it so please help me there as I have left my comments on the Brazilian page of Pierre's uncle that Pierre tells me will please him. Tell your uncle that I would LOVE for him to respond to us, LIKE us on Facebook and leave a comment in Portuguese for all to read and enjoy. ... I also appreciated very much Pierre's honesty and frankness in speaking about promoting Brazilian cachaca here in the United States, saying after I told him we do a lot with LEBLON cachaca, the Cedilla Acai liqueur and the ' aged ' cachaca - also using the alambique technique of production that he feels that you all must work together as a team and not against the other to better promote cachaca here in the United States, and that he - Pierre feels that LEBLON helps you all here as they are already a large presence here. Team -work, bravo, that's what it takes, working together just as we will today , Saturday, June 21st, 2014 from 4-7PM to promote your CACHACA Sao Paulo. Tell Pierre to send Wayne Currier a message for me that it would be great for him to stop by the store today for a visit during the tasting, that I would greatly appreciate that! Cheers ... ola, bom dia, vais, vais, vais vais , VAIS Brasil e CACHACA Sao Paulo! Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn 6/21.2014
I Have more to include here but will post this now ' as is ' so that we can all make some MORE NOISE for Brazil and this excellent value/ product from Brazil called CACHACA Sao Paulo! Come taste this afternoon at : 3423 Connecticut Avenue , N.W. Washington D.C., 20008 Tel : 202-363-4265. No charge, everyone more than welcome. TONY
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Sonia Denicol Likes My Facebook Posting On The Wooden Box 6-Bottle Wine Case Cover Of The MIOLO Wine Group Lote 43 Safra 2004 SR Brasil Dry Red I Sold @ Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits Several Years Ago!
From one of Brasil's really fine wine-growing/making regions : the Vale Dos Vinhedos in the Serra Gaucha region inland from Porto Allegre and just below the fine wine town of Bento Goncalves that I visited in late June 2012 and had a ten-day trip of a lifetime, visiting MIOLO with some of the other fine wineries like : BOSCATO, Vinicola ZATTERA, X DECIMA, DOM CANDIDO, DON GUERINO, CAVALIERRI , CASA VALDUGA, DOMNO and PIAGENTINI, too ... and tried some of the other wineries' wines like SALTON, DUNAMIS, and soke of LIDIO-CARRARO, too ...
From Brasil's fine wine
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Anthony Quinn's Cleveland Park Wines & Spiirits' Weekly Tuesday Store Email, July 17th, 2012 : On The MIOLO FAMILY Wines Like Their Merlot, On Azienda Agricola Veneto, Italy LA GIORETTA Valpolicella Like Their Recioto Classico Della Valpolicella2005, 14% Alc. By Volume,
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LIFE IN THE HOT Fast lane in Cleveland Park N.W. Washington D.C.
Just look outside or stroll up and down Cleveland Park and soak in the sun
as it pelts down and strikes us square between the eyes and try and see the
balance of things clearly so that you may maximize the pleasure of as many
moments as possible. We are here to help you do this.
The heat can be disorienting : so can the brightness of these sunny,
baby-blue skied days as we plod along and try not to shrivel like the grapes
left outside to do so in the Valpolicella region of Italy that results in the
Amarone dry red wines and some of the very best wines made anywhere in the
world!
STORIES, TIPS & RECOMMENDATIONS to best survive this intense heat, haze,
humidity and pounding sunshine :
This intense heat that we are experiencing here now reminds me of walking
the hillside vineyards years ago Azienda Agricola LA GIARETTA with the owner and
our small group of five men on a wine-adventure to visit these sites where some
of the greatest wine in the world is being made. We have some of the
lesser-known, lesser-spoken-of Recioto della Valpolicella Classico 2005 ( $39.99
) LA GIARETTA in stock. It is even denser, even thicker and lusher and darker in
hues and riper than the Amarone that everyone knows and loves. It comes in a
500ml bottle, 14% alcohol by volume, for this very reason : you drink it more
slowly, you let it lavish it's concentrated sweet raisin and spice and
toasty-roasted flavors that come from the mostly Corvina grapes ( some Molinara,
Negrara and others, too ).
I AM RELEARNING PORTUGUESE. I spent my early years of 2-8 in Brasil and we
are now selling so many Portuguese wines. More than ever before : we have three
shelves devoted to Portuguese wines in the store and not just to the Vinho
Verdes either that we stock up front and sell for less than $10 a bottle. We
just got back the more flavorful, thicker-richer-denser, fruitier version of a
Vinho Verde - the Colheita 2011 ENCOSTAS DO LIMA Branco Meio Seco ( $9.99, 10%
alcohol ) also has a lovely slight sparkle and it will taste great inside or
outside and not go directly to your head. Enjoy it!
SPEAKING OF PORTUGUESE and Portugal and Brasil we even have the MIOLO FAMILY VINEYARD wines
of Brasil and I have heard through the grapevine that the 2008 MIOLO Family
Vineyards 100% hand-selected Merlot, 13% alcohol by volume, is a very fine
vintage and made in the southern Vale Dos Vinhedos region. I was given a sample
bottle by our local rep and I can attest myself to liking very much this dry,
firm, fruit-forward Saint-Emilion style of Merlot that we sell here for $16.99 a
bottle. You should check it out sometime : it's really a wonderful surprise and
a delight.
I LIKE TO DRAW and as a result I like to connect the lines, especially
between the Eastern and the Western hemispheres. The lines, too are so often
blurred today as many of our customers do not know that many of the grapes came
from the Eastern Hemishere and were brought here by immigrants from Italy,
Portugal, Spain, Germany, France and so on. I have learned by looking at the
MIOLO web page , for example that many of the people that settled in the Vale
Dos Vinhedos were from both Veneto and Trento, Italy.
IT ALL CONNECTS SOMEWHERE and this seemingly large world of ours is
connected in so many wonderful ways and so I can start speaking about Italy and
Portugal and naturally get to Brasil and to Uruguay that we have supported in a
big way for many years now. I am sorry that Abel Sauza our Uruguayian connection
has moved to Florida. We do have, however a really fine dry red Tannat that is a
grape that originally comes from France's Madiran southwest not that far from
the French-Spanish border.
WE HAVE A REALLY EXCELLENT 2007 dry Tannat Cerro Chapeu " Amat " Tradicion
Carrau ( $29.99, 13.5% alcohol by volume, desde 1752 ; I got to meet the owner
recently at a trade wine-tasting of the Downey imports ) that is pretty amazing
and well-worth the money if you want something special. You can start with the
MIOLO Family Vineyards 2008 Merlot ( $16.99 ) as it is fleshier, rounder,
brighter and more fruit-driven and then pass to the " Amat " BODEGAS CARRAU
Tannat 2007 that is both earthier, more spicy and with more developed flavors
with more oak, too. I ask the question, too whether this Tannat is made from
100% Tannat grapes or is the law there for only 75-85% of the grapes necessary
when listed on the bottle? So much to learn, so much to know, so better get
cracking!
THESE ARE TWO WINES made not that far from one another and yet they are so
stylistically different and yet for my palate both are really quite excellent
and memorable examples of the grape variety and where they come from and I would
be delighted to drink either or both along with the bottle of the Recioto della
Valpolicella Azienda Agricola LA GIARETTA 2005 ( $39.99, 14% alcohol by volume,
500ml bottle ) to finish off the meal. I would have a bottle of the ENCOSTAS DO
LIMA Vinho Verde Colheita 2011almost as a palate-cleanser/refresher at this same
meal to give a break between the wines and the courses and to thus also add
accent and the proper attention to each and every wine here as well as the
accompanying foods.
FUNNY, and something that caught my attention immediately, the one and only
time that I saw the epically long and interesting-fascinating wine movie called
" Mondo Vino " it both started and ended in Brasil. I will have to watch it
again as I do not remember if any mention was made of any specific wineries
there or of any specific wine region. I have to assume that they were filming in
the Vale Dos Vinhedos? That makes sense from what little I know. It also makes
me really curious as I wonder if one of the people involved in the filming was
from Brasil or not? It all deserves more attention and I will be renting a copy
of the movie to watch again.
ANOTHER THING THAT I NOTICE as I connect all the dots is that all these
wines are 14% alcohol and less and I like that as especially with all this extra
heat and humidity and beating-down sunshine the lower alcohols are so much
easier to both enjoy and to absorb. You not only enjoy them better while you are
drinking them with your meal but you also probably feel a whole lot better later
as a result of this , too as there is less alcohol ( and in better balance with
the other components of the wine ) so as not to got to your head so quickly and
leave you with a pulsing headache as well. All good if you ask me.
STAY-TUNED FOR MUCH MORE INFORMATION and many more choices on these wines
as here in the United States and here in Washington D.C. very few people know
that they even make wine in either Brasil or Uruguay.
IT'S SO HOT and the haze and the humidity is holding us all down as we walk
along this stretch of Connecticut Avenue N.W. here in Washington D.C. People
walk a little more quickly as if trying to escape the pounding and that is
completely understandable.
I JUST HAD TWO YOUNG LADIES come to the store and look into our
refrigerator with cold sparkling and still wines. When I asked them if they
needed any help the one asked me if we had any really deals on cheap white
wines? I responded that we had deals on some " inexpensive " white wines and
immediately showed them the bottle of ANJOS De Portugal Vinho Verde ( $8.99,
9.5% alcohol by volume, with a slight sparkle for refreshment ) is made from the
indigenous grapes of 40% Arinto and 30% Trajadura and 30% Loureiro.
I TOLD THEM IT WAS THE BEST THING to drink now with all this heat and
humidity and I told them that was so because of the lower alcohol and the slight
sparkle. They objected immediately to the lower alcohol and I said that they
would have to trust me and report back to me if there were any problems on there
day-off and as I would be here all day. I told them my name as well. So far they
have not been here and so I hope that all is going smoothly and as planned.
Vamos a ver ...
BUT HEY, BEER & LIQUOR IS REFRESHING, TOO In ALL THIS HEAT, HAZE, HUMIDITY :
BEER From SANTOS -
1) IPA from FLORIDA BEER , Indian Pale Ale " Swamp Ape " ( $9.99 a 4-pack
of 12 Ounce bottles, 10% alcohol by volume, Melbourne, Florida,
www.floridabeer.com ) : " Firsthand accounts describe an intense beast with a
potent aroma and bite. ... Or proof that brewing with five distinct varieties of
hops creates an unbelievable, relentlessly hopped India Pale Ale? ... ".
2) Beer called : Lobster Lovers Beer with quite the sensual/funky label (
$10.99 a 6-pack of 11.2 Fl. Oz bottles, 9.5% alcohol by volume, Aiko Importers
Inc, Mount Pleasant SC, www.aikoimporters.com, from Rinkuskia, Birzai, Lithuania
) : " Has life ever snapped at you? Grab it by the claws! ". I rarely ever,
hardly never would I say this BUT I might buy this six-pack just from the art
on the label. How does the label and the taste relate? Is there a correlation
between the two : imagined or real? The power of suggestion is intriguing and I
might just have to buy this from the label. I do have a really good sense,
however, that this will be a great summer/hot weather beer to help get through,
past and away from the heat and the haze and the humidity that dogged me through
the day. Worth checking out. Come by this Lithuanian beer and enjoy the taste
and telling stories about what the label might mean or suggest? Cheers.
3) Wheat beer, unfiltered, since 1989 from the BOULEVARD BREWING CO. (
$9.99 a 6-pack of 12 Oz. bottles, Kansas City, Missouri bottle-conditioned ) : "
Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer is a lively, refreshing ale with a distinctive
cloudy appearance. Bottle conditioning gives it an extraordinary depth of flavor
and makes for a beer that tastes fresher, better , longer. If you wish, gently
swirl the last inch or so before pouring to enhance your experience of this
traditional beer ".
LIQUOR From RAVINDER :
1) Imported THREE OLIVES Vodka 1.75ml ( On Special for $25.99, 100%
neutral grain spirits, distilled from grain, 40% alcohol by volume , from
England ) is one of the tried-and-true vodkas that has stood the test of time
and all the recent competition and represents one of the great deals today here.
GREAT VALUE, really fine vodka.
2) Whipped Flavored French Vodka from PINNACLE ( On Special for $13.99 a
750ml bottle, 35% alcohol by volume, PinnacleVodka.com ) has got a real
following with both our customers and our bartenders. WE sell out of it
regularly. How do you like to serve it? On the rocks? Share your ideas with us.
3) Tequila Gold SAUZA made from Fresh Blue Agave Gift Set with SAUZA
non-alcoholic Margarita mix ( two bottles, each 750ml bottles ( On Special for
$13.99, just blend the two together ) to make your very own SAZA-ritas!!!
Cheers!!!
4) Vodka with natural flavors of CUCUMBER, from SKINNY GIRL ( On Special
for $19.99, 30% alcohol by volume, Deerfield, Illinois, 75.8 calories, 0
carbohydrates, 0 Fat, 0 Protein per 1.5 fluid oz. skinnygirlcocktails.com ) is
new and exciting here at Cleveland Park. Come try some. Various flavors
available. Inquire with Ravinder.
WINES From MICHEL Et/E Tony :
WHITE :
1) The FURST Gewurztraminer 2010 ( $19.99 , 12.5% alcohol by volume) from
Kientzheim , Kaysersburg ( Haut Rhin ), Alsace, France is round and full and
generous and smooth, bright and rounded and has a wonderful and refreshing
mouth-feel and is a delight to sip with or without food. It showed beautifully
this weekend when Chris Bartha tasted it with our customers for Bastille Day!
Highly recommended.
ROSE : Dry -
1) " La Clape " Classique 2011 dry rose blend of 80% Mourvedre, 10% Syrah
and 10% Grenache, famille E. Fabre ) from the CHATEAU D'ANGLES is drinking like
another velvety, bright, fresh, rounded, generous yet toned dream that on the
very-first-taste is wonderful and pleasing and easing to one's palate! Again,
tasted by Chris on this past Bastille Day and highly recommended. Only 13.5%
alcohol by volume, info@chateauangles.com.
REDS - Dry :
1) Vinho Regional Alentejano from Portugal, this " LOIOS " from J. PORTUGAL
RAMOS ( $9.99, 13.5% alcohol by volume ) is named for the Loios monks that
dominated this region. Fresh and bright and forward and a great wine to chill
slightly and to enjoy even with all this pounding hear, haze, glaze, humidity
and heavy sunshine. Great for a picnic, too with the easy-to-open Stelvan
closure.
AND WHEN ALL IS SAID & DONE :
2) Pinot Noir " Terrazze " Italian Pinot Nero TENUTA MAZZOLINO from the
Provincia Di Pavia ( $16.99, 2011, 12.5% alcohol by volume - low alcohol once
again, easier on our systems ) is an absolute pleasure and delight to drink with
or without a meal as we return to from where we started this email : Italy! You
can enjoy this Pinot Nero/Noir even in this humidity and heat. Chill it thirty
minutes and enjoy it even sitting outside here on Connecticut Avenue N.W. in
this really hot summer weather. It is worth this $17 a bottle and more. The
Frenchman that makes it in northwestern Italy really knows what he is doing.
Cheers, sante, salute!!
WEEK'S TASTINGS :
Friday, July 20th, 2012 ( 5-8PM ) : We have Arielle Monaco of the Country
Vintner coming to taste some great Italian as well as Aussie wines : LA GERLA
Rosso di Montalcino: Chianti Classico, too - both reds ... and then two whites
from Australia, one from western Australia and one from South Australia.
Something for everybody.
Saturday, July 21st, 2012 ( 2-6PM ) : We have Mark Congdon of J.W. SIEG
Imports here with the national sales rep of JULES TAYLOR of New Zealand to pour
the three wines that Jules makes : the 2011 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (
$18.99, 13.5% alcohol by volume, www.julestaylor.com ), the 2010 Pinot Noir (
$23.99 ) and the Pinot Gris 2009 ( $18.99 ) ; all from the Marlborough region.
JOIN US FOR BOTH TASTINGS : NEVER any charge, everyone is always welcome.
Bring a guest. Bring an acquaintance, bring some high expectations with you and
surprise yourselves and meet some other really interesting people here. Cheers.
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, we love selling to you: we love meeting you for the
first time and sharing tips, stories , observations and recommendations. That
has been what this whole email has been about. Hopefully you have enjoyed it and
learned something, too. Thanks again.
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CHEERS, TONY
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Celebrating Father's Day On Sunday June 15th, 2014 : Happy Father's Day Dad : Harry Alan Quinn Here You Are In Brasil Sometime 1955-1963 When You Worked At The American Embassy There From Rio De Janeiro To Brasilia When It became The Capitol : Cheers!
This is for you Dad! Love you, this is from Eric, Larry and me : we all love you!
Here you are pictured talking with some Brazilian diplomats in Brasil in either Rio de Janeiro or in Brasilia and as Father's Day approaches this Sunday, June 15th, 2014, as well as the start of tomorrow's World Soccer Cup I want these pictures to be available for all to see and enjoy as Brasil hosts the event starting tomorrow, Thursday June 12th, 2014.
Katarina Zuber our Swedish neighbor that has worked with me at Bralvin to make the wines of Brasil better known . more available here in the Unites States since 2012 was nice enough to take these pictures with her phone a few minutes ago, and later my wife, Katarina , Matt and I will enjoy some of the SALTON Harmoniza Vineyard's Serra Gaucha Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 ' Volpi ' that I have now resting on our dining room table upstairs. Cheers all, obregado, bom bem dia, ola , vais, vais, vais , VAIS! Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn 6/11/2014 on Wednesday morning here at home before work and selling more Brazilian wines for you all to enjoy! TONY
Monday, June 9, 2014
The Story Behind Our Harry & Nancy Quinn Gift Of One-Of-Four-Original Maps Given To Them By The Brazilian State Department As An " Obregado " Gift Back In 1962-1962 : Carta Do Mundo Projecao Azimutal Equidistante Centro Brasilia , D.F. Escala 65 000 000 , No. 10 001 , Preco Crg 80, 00 : What Does All This Mean?!?
Monday, June 9, 2014
The Story Behind Our Old Hanging Map From Brasilia Back ( In 1962-1963 ? ) That Says : Carta Do Mundo Projecao Azimutal Equidistante Centro Brasilia, D.F. Escala 60 000 000 , No. 10 001 , Preco Crg 80,00 : What Does All This mean?!?
I'll tell you what it all means, it's an old gift given to my father Harry Alan Quinn ( and indirectly my mother Nancy Proctor Quinn ) years ago by the Brazilian State Department of the capitol that had just formed there in the center of Brazil way out in the middle then of nowhere that was called Brasilia! Wow, a gift to our father and to our mother. What an honor, what a treat, what a privilege, and I did not know any of this until a month or so ago when my mother and brother Eric gave me this map, saying that I was the one to have it.
I grew up with this map. It was always part of our household and I looked at it and loved it in my own growing-up-with-it-always-being-there sort of way. I guess I took it for granted. Sorry to say that. But I was innocent. I never knew, I never heard the story. Neither my father or my mother told me, or if they did it went in one ear and out my other, really bad , so embarrassing, I know all of this. Oh well, I am here to now rectify all of this on the eve of the next Soccer World Cup that is about to start in Brasil in a couple of day, Thursday, June 12ht, 2014. Just in time, the nick of time, not a minute to lose. I know, I'm dramatic, so shoot me, with blanks of course.
My mother told me the story in her apartment recently with my brother Eric there with us. Sorry to say our other brother Larry was not with us. he would have liked this story, too. he would have been proud, he would have taken a lot of pleasure in this I am sure just as I did. I think that our brother Eric had already heard the story a number of times so I think that he was not as shocked or as surprised as I was. The news of this gift to them from the ' new ' government of Brasil back in 1961 was electrifying. It blew me, still does blow me away!
Our mother Nancy went on to say that she had been approached by one of the srnior officials of the Brazilian government, their State Department, just like ours, a 4-story building she said. The official that she knew and that had worked closely with our father Harry Quinn had approached her once he heard that our father was leaving Brasilia.
Turns out that our father and his work, the kind of no-nonsense, hard-working man that he was was well-respected and that they had enjoyed working with him and wanted to give him and our mother a token of their appreciation. He asked my mother what would her husband / our father like as a parting gift?
I cannot remember everything that our mother said and exactly as she had said it, but I do know the essentials of what she said to me telling me this story recently in front of my brother Eric. At some point she had talked to our father and they had spoken of this and my father said that he would like one of the hanging circular maps that he saw when he entered the building as he had admired it greatly.
So, when she told this official he paused, maybe even gulped and said something like : " But there are only four of them, one on each of the four floors of this building." He said that he would check and see what he could do about this and let them know.
My mother and father did not know what the outcome would be? They had to wait , wonder and see? Anyway, you all already know the outcome, they presented one of these maps to our father and mother and we have enjoyed it, loved it, weathered and aged it with our travels since then around the world that meant it went next back here to Washington D.C., then to Trinidad, then back here, next to Paris, France and then back here and perhaps even to San Leandro, California? I am not sure about that?
I have more questions for our mother but I want to post this now with the pictures that were just taken by our Swedish neighbor Katarina with her phone and sent to my email address : tonythewineguy@gmail.com. I will now include them here for everyone to see.
As I just told Katarina this is pretty special and still what an honor, and on the eve of the World Soccer Cup, and in two years the summer Olympics, wow, this - as it was then - is history, this is a period in time that was then and is now special and I , for one, have not lost sight of that at all.
Enjoy this, please share this with your friends, and let's all make some really big noise for Brasil now as they have earned and deserve it. I loved spending the six years of my life there from 2-8 years-of-age and never tire of hearing of those times from our mother Nancy. Thanks Mom, you are the best. Thanks, too Dad, you are also super : we admire you both.
What a wonderful and colorful and magical and transforming period of our lives we four spent there back in the mid to late fifties and the first years of the 60's.
Ola, obregado para tudos, vais, vais, vais, vais VAIS BRASIL! Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn Monday, June 9th, 2014
Bralvin #dunamis #vinhobrasileiro #vinhofinobrasileiro #mywinery#auroracellars #leblon #cachaca #saltonharmoniza #AandMImports #LidioCararo#Miolo #CasaValduga #Boscato #Zattera #DomCandido #DonGuerino #Xdecima#CordilheiradeSantana #Paigentini #brasilworldcup #brazilworldcup#valeDosVinhedos #BentoGoncalves #NovaPadua #CasaValduga #CaxiasDoSul#PortoAllegre #SerraGaucha #Vais #BrazilianItalianWinemakers cheers, TONY
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Krista Of LEBLON Brazilian Cachaca Here With Anthony Quinn @ Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits Working On The Brazilian World Cup Tasting Here From 5-8PM With Fatima Peters June 7th, 2014 : Vais, Ola, Bom Dia, Vais VAIS VAIS!
Krista is here ( 1:22PM Thursday afternoon ) from LEBLON delivering thing for our BIG BRAZIL Soccer-Cup event here this Sayurday, June 7th, 2014 with Fatima Peters from 5-8PM, we are also working on a storefront window of LE BLON that has a really splashy-beautiful poster of a handsome soccer player on it, you all will love this, gotta check it out, ... here's Krista to say hello : Hi Everyone - live love leblon! Come try the national drink of brazil this saturday and get ready for World Cup! ... thanks Krista, the pics are great, send them to me and I will post them now. Cheers, Happy Soccer Brazil World Cup everyone! Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn 6/5/2014
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