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WINE of the MONTH CLUB Since 1972 August 2009 Wines Evaluated Last Month: 245 Rejected: 228 Approved: 17 Selected: 6 NEWS FROM WINE OF THE MONTH CLUB Since 1972 August 2009 Wines evaluated last month: 245 Rejected: 228 Approved: 17 Selected: 6 What’s New e’re rolling doing in the Classic Series? through Well, it’s incredible. Dry This Month? summer Muscats aren’t around see page 2 with the much because everybody winds to thinks they’re sweet. This our backs, excitement gem has all the flavors you Send Us Your Win our midst and great can muster, but finishes e-mail Address! wine in the glass. dry. A real delight. August offers a few old send to: friends and some very LIMItED SERIES [email protected] exciting new ones. Petite Verdot, 2004. Lapis CLASSIC SERIES Luna, Solano, California Is this cool or what? We’ve probably tasted all Merlot, 2005. Spotlight, Log onto of three Petite Verdot’s California ever! It’s mostly used as a www. Our Spotlight Merlot is blending grape, but one wineofthemonthclub.com another amazing value must wonder why when and click on in one of the hottest you taste this powerhouse. “Live Help” and you will be grapes around. I would All we can say is “Watch find it hard to believe out Cabernet and Merlot, connected instantly you could come across it’s all about Petite Verdot.” to one of our a wine like this for Kinda has a nice rhyme to Membership Service Reps! even twice the price it, don’t you think? anywhere in the country. You won’t torrontes, 2007. Ambar, Gift Orders believe your senses. Mendoza, Argentina The more of this grape we see page 9 Moscato, 2008. taste, the more we fall in Mezzacorona, love with it. This one is New Member trentino, Italy the best we’ve tried so We were skeptical at far. Intense, without being Application first. After all, Moscato effusive and shy without for a Friend makes one of the best being lean. What a match see page 15 dessert wines in the for grilled shrimp on the world. So, what’s it barbie. INSIDE THIS MONTH WINE OF THE MONTH CLUB NEWS 1 ORDER FORMS 7–10 WHAT ’S NEW ?2WOMC W INE RATING SCHEDULE 11 REG. M ERLOT , 2005. S POTLIGHT 3 MEMBER COMMENTS 12 REG. M OSCATO , 2008. M EZZACORONA 4 ADVENTURES IN GOOD FOOD 13 LTD. P ETITE VERDOT , 2004. L APIS LUNA 5 CLASSIC & L TD TASTING NOTES 14, 11 LTD. T ORRONTES , 2007. A MBAR 6 WORD ON THE STREET 16 Join us on the Web: www.WineoftheMonthClub.com A N OTE WHAT’S NEW THIS MONTH? FROM YOUR CELLARMASTER Well, another high school senior year completed. I have one more to get through high school and I am done. My wife and I have a pre-curser to our lives without kids this week. The two older girls were invited to Hawaii for a week and the youngest is at church camp working as a CCA (Child Care Assistant). So we are alone. It’s not so bad. The whole house to myself. No one complaining about the TV volume or the music volume. No one in the kitchen making a mess. No one telling me their car needs to go into the shop. No one telling me that they are tired from doing nothing all day. Then again it’s not so good. The whole house to myself. No one complaining about the TV volume or the music volume. No one in the kitchen making a mess. No one telling me their car needs to go into the Paul Kalemkiarian shop. No one telling me that they are tired from doing nothing all day. The two of us were at dinner together deciding that it is very strange to Don’t things slow down in know that there is no one to check on or to worry about for the next few the summer? Aren’t we days. Maybe the dog, but even she makes the best of a day without us around. So what to do. I have to admit that after a full day of tasting and supposed to take a break? shooting tasting videos or writing email specials, I am not really in the mood When? The wines are for business or wine talk. Though I will have a glass of wine (or two) unless I am in a Gordon’s Gin Martini mood. There is another passion that both my flooding in here like wife and I share…Antiques. oranges. And the winery Though my in-laws are not necessarily interested in antiques, Sandra is. In representatives are calling contrast, I grew up with them. Paul Sr. and my mom are quite educated on antiques and have been auction hounds since I was a child. In fact, my very and calling. Why? first driving job, just before I started delivering wines for the Wine of the Because they of course Month, was to deliver antiques to be sold and pick up antiques purchased from A.N. Abell and Co. in Los Angeles; one of the oldest antique auction want to sell something. But houses in Los Angeles. more importantly, they So as Sandra and I pondered our libations at a local restaurant, she want to sell it to us…for enlightened me to an idea that even she couldn’t believe she was describing. Opening an antique warehouse/retail store! “What?” I reacted. Then I you….because it means started thinking, “We have tons of really cool things that we will never get something to be a selection to….we understand antiques and silver….Why not?” In fact, half of the old Wine of the Month Club warehouse is still available and it is in a great part of the Original Wine of the of Old Town Monrovia. Month Club. So without trepidation, I think I will accept my wife’s off-the-wall proposal and dabble in the realm of antiques. Years ago my folks had The Auctioneers Salud! Gavel. They would literally travel the world and acquire antiques, primarily silver, and resell them in various stores in the South Bay of Los Angeles. One of the better stores was around the corner from Palos Verdes Wines and Spirits (home of the Wine of the Month Club). So my Dad could taste and buy wine during the day and check on his antiques in the afternoon. So much for charting my own path. Look where I am headed… Like father Paul Kalemkiarian like son. Membership in The Wine of The MonTh Club is open to anyone with an interest in and an appreciation for superb wines... and excellent wine values. Membership is FREE. For more info write: Wine of The MonTh Club P.O. Box 660220, Arcadia, CA 91066 Or call: 1-800-949-WINE (9463) or (626) 303-1690 FAX: (626) 303-2597 Visit us at: www.WineoftheMonthClub.com Newsletter written by: Ed Masciana, Wine Author 2 1-800-949-WINE • www.wineofthemonthclub.com DOMESTIC SELECTION erenity Vineyards Salentein create Malbec, Spotlight Series Chardonnay and Pinot Noir aims to focus that showed off their rocky S attention on unique soil and unique high- grape growing regions altitude Andean vineyards. throughout California. The 2005 Merlot benefits from As Consulting Winemaker the Central Coasts long cool for Serenity, Alison enjoys growing season to develop bringing the unique its satisfying, intense flavors. character of California’s Central Coast to every Alison Crowe, a California bottle. Their Los Alamos native, credits much of her Vineyard is situated in one decision to become a wine - of the classic East-West Merlot maker to growing up on the valley’s in Santa Barbara (mare-low) Santa Barbara coast, just County. The hillside sun next door to wine country. exposure is tempered with a Blessed with a family that cooling marine influence, 2005 loves to grow, cook and which allow them to get celebrate with the food ripe, lush flavor together and wines of the Central with an almost steely Spotlight Coast, Alison has always acid and minerality. The Monterey, had an appreciation for the Spotlight Merlot is a wine produce of California’s with a distinct sense of place. California farms and fields. In this case, the Central Coast, with its rolling hills, Color: After graduating from UC ancient oak trees and Davis with a double major in green valley’s reaching to Deep purple winemaking and Spanish, the ocean. Alison learned firsthand nose: the things you don’t learn Merlot is still one of the Currant, black in school, making wine in brightest darlings in the the trenches. She and her world of red wine. It cherry, and chocolate husband, a professional possesses many of the firm photographer, took a flavors of its big brother, Palate: harvest trip in Argentina’s Cabernet Sauvignon, but Very clean cranberry Mendoza region, home to usually without the and soft tannins that country’s best wineries. crushing tannins that require At Bodegas Salentein she years, sometimes decades, worked alongside wine- of aging. Though many Finish: making legend Michel Merlots can age as well as Long and Rolland, called by some the Cabernet Sauvignon, our foreboding with most influential winemaker selection this month is made of all time. Putting her in a softer, gentler style for cherry and vanilla Spanish skills to the test, consuming over the next she brought a California 3-4 years. winemaker’s perspective to WOMC Rating the harvest and helped 87 Points CELLARING SUGGESTIONS 809A Retail Price: $14.99/each Special Member Price: $10.99/each Drink now Reorder Price: $7.99/each through 2011 46% Discount $95.88/case 1-800-949-WINE • www.wineofthemonthclub.com 3 IMPORT SELECTION ezzacorona by the 1.300 growers.
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