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We are • The Splash Dogs share our knowledge and passion here to help. Welcome to the family! Page 3 for wine. We hope to bring exciting new content and experiences to • Screw Caps Vs. our customers, from long-time wine Corks: The Grape lovers to novice wine drinkers, Debate Page 4-5 we plan to have something for • Arrāez Winery everyone. You’ll learn a little bit Jon R Page 5 about each of our staff members, Loyalty Account Manger • To Aerate Or Not To Aerate? WINE WORD OF Page 6-7 • Meet The Team THE MONTH Page 8 WINO (“WY” + “NOH”) • ReWINEd Crafts By Daintry Page 9 The definition of a wino is something that’s important to us. A wino simply loves wine and believes that drinking wine should be fun. • New Wines At Whether it’s a beautiful red enjoyed in the perfect glass or an easy Splash Page 10 drinking bottle poured into red solo cups while camping, enjoying wine should be a fun experience. Strip away the pretentious attitude and the • Winemaker’s stuffy vibe, Winos know that what’s important is drinking the wine you Dinner Page 11 like with the food you like and the people you love. That’s what being a Splash Wino is all about. 1 THIRST DOWN!: REAL FOOTBALL FANS DRINK WINE Tailgate Food & Wine Pairings an you believe it is September already? Fall is Chere! The weather is beginning to cool down after another scorching summer. The leaves are just starting to show their autumn colors. Did I mention that football is back? Most spend their Saturday and Sunday afternoons sipping on their favorite seasonal beers with plates piled high of nachos and wings. Football has long been treated as a beer-drinker’s sport, but we at Splash beg to differ. Fall is peak red wine season! What better beverage to consume than a soul-pleasing, heart-warming red wine? It’s the perfect game day drink, so trade in your bottle opener for your go-to corkscrew. Sit down, relax and make sure not to spill… CHILI AND THE BELLA SOL PIZZA & THE CABERNET SAUVIGNON LA MARCHESINA ROSSO A spicy, meaty chili with a sharp TERRE SICILIANE RED BLEND cheddar cheese pairs well with Grab a pie full of cheese and our easy-drinking Bella Sol pepperoni, or olives, peppers and Cabernet. Full of robust flavors of Italian sausage, that pair perfectly black currant and red cherry that with our La Marchesina Rosso Terre immediately hit the palate, with a Siciliane from Italy. This ruby red, hint of black pepper providing that full bodied red is a bit on the drier perfect spice flavor. side, but not enough to overwhelm your palate or your pizza! HONEY BBQ WINGS & THE GUAC AND CHIPS FLORENT DESCOMBES & THE INTI CHARDONNAY PINOT NOIR If white wine is your thing, then try BBQ wings & this Pinot Noir are a deliciously, creamy guacamole a good match, each allowing the using ripe avocados, cilantro, other to showcase its strengths. garlic, jalapeno and lemon juice! With a vibrant and aromatic nose, This will go perfectly with our Inti and notes of cherries, strawberries, Chardonnay, featuring fresh citrus raspberries and blackberries, this fruit flavors with a herbaceous (bell lighter red and its acidity will cut pepper like) underlying palate to right through the honey bbq flavors. finish. 2 THIRST DOWN!: REAL I’LL TAKE A ROSÉ FOOTBALL FANS DRINK WINE GRAPEFRUIT OLD FASHIONED Tailgate Food & Wine Pairings The Perfect Cocktail for Your Leftover Rosé e’ve all been caught staring at the wine rack and liquor Wcabinet having the hardest of times deciding between the two. Let’s see if we can make the decision a bit easier for you. Do you have some extra rosé lying around? What about a bottle of whiskey? Ever thought about mixing the two? Yeah, me either until I tried this drink. Reminiscent of an Old Fashioned, yet kept light and brigh by the addition of rosé and sparkling water. It’s refreshing yet will warm up your insides with each sip. Cheers! INGREDIENTS: INSTRUCTIONS: - 2 ounces whiskey 1) Mix the ingredients in a - 3 ounces rosé wine (We recommend our Nanihue Rosé) shaker and pour over ice in - 1 teaspoon rose syrup a lowball glass. - 2 tablespoons grapefruit juice 2) Top with a couple ounces - Sparkling water to taste (try grapefruit sparkling water for of sparkling water and a fruitier taste). add grapefruit slices or peel - Grapefruit slices or peel for garnish to the glass as garnish. OFFICE THEDOG FRIENDLY SPLASH DOGS Kepner Siebenberg The Splash office is incredibly DOG FRIENDLY dog friendly. We often have OFFICE up to 4, yes FOUR, dogs in the office at a time. We’d like to introduce you to Kepner, our Creative Manager Jamey’s Golden Retriever. Kepner doesn’t quite know her size, and what she lacks in brains, she makes up for in enthusiasm. She enjoys holding hands in her mouth and standing on her back legs like a ballerina. AGE: 2 years ( April 13th, 2017) BEST FRIENDS: Sister Charlee & Cousin Marlow FAVORITE THINGS TO DO AT WORK: FAVORITE TREAT: Watermelon Sleep under Mom’s desk, wrestle, and dig through the trash. BEST TRICK: High Five Squeaky, for sure! SPECIAL TALENT: The ability to open doors. SQUEAKY OR BOUNCY TOY: 3 SCREW CAPS VS. CORKS: THE GRAPE DEBATE hich is better: corks or screw caps? If I were to take a poll in this regard, I am almost positive Wthe majority would state corks. Why wouldn’t they? It’s the classic choice and preference for what goes between you and your wine. The Cork Cork is made from the bark of a tree. Quercus oxygen helps develop complexity beyond fruit suber, aka the cork tree, is found in the western flavors while also softening the wine’s tannins. Mediterranean area of Portugal, Spain and One of cork’s biggest downsides comes from North Africa. Its thick, rugged bark is sustainably Trichloroanisole, also known as TCA or “cork cultivated without choping down the tree to taint”, a complex chemical that results from cork make cork products. Harvesting the bark allows reactions. These reactions involve the chlorine for the tree to grow it back, and then, after 10 bleach utilized in the manufacturing of corks years, you can do it all over again. and its natural molds. The frequency of this can be mostly attributed to the increased volume of When put in a bottle, corks are made to allow wine sold and the decline in cork quality to meet a very small amount of air to reach the wine. it. Although, modern production has made this Slowly letting in small amounts of oxygen over much rarer. time allows the wine to age gracefully. The Pros: - A natural, renewable resource that isn’t harmful to the tree - Proven to help the long-term aging process - Preferred method of storing wine since its introduction Cons: - TCA can cause for bad corks & spoiled wine - Expensive - A finite natural resource - Variable rate of breathing during aging process 4 The Screw Cap ARRĀEZ WINERY The first use of screw caps was in 1964. If you Spanish Wine Unlike Any Other ever travel to Australia, you will notice that screw caps have become the preferred option for bottling their wine. Alex Dale, the Proprietor of Radford Dale/Granite Ridge, has completely made the transfer from corks to screw caps. “I have had enough bottlings of my own, research across the wine planet and an increasingly positive experience with screw caps that a clear pattern was emerging. From vintage 2008 until today, every single wine we have produced has been bottled with a screw cap. Every bottle ituated in has been cork-taint-free, delivered in the most SValenica, faithful state, in bottle as it was made in our Spain, Arraez vineyards and in our winery.” Winery is now in its third Pros: generation of - A more financially sound option wine-making. - No TCA “Cork” Taint Working with - Long-term aging studies have shown the same grape positive results varieties as - Accessible and easy to open the ones his grandfather and father started with, Toni Cons: Arraez has introduced an innovative touch unlike any other winery in the world while - Some don’t breathe properly sticking to his roots. With each bottle of wine, - Made from non-renewable resources his labels are created by local artists with the - Recyclable but not biodegradable desire to bring the city of Valencia, and its hip - Associated with “cheap” wine and festive urban lifestyle, to those around the world.