Beverage Warehouse Valentine's Wine Tasting
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Beverage Warehouse Valentine’s Wine Tasting All wines are 10% off during the tasting – they don't go bad, stock up tonight and save! Mumm Napa Brut Prestige (California) | $21.99 $19.79 tonight! Tasting Notes: A complex assemblage of primarily Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, Brut Prestige opens with gorgeous layered white blossom aromas, followed by creamy vanilla, citrus, stone fruit and melon. With elegant acidity and crisp structure, this medium-bodied sparkling wine displays an excellent mousse and a rich, lingering finish. Refreshing acidity and fruit character makes Brut Prestige an excellent food wine. Alice Osé Rosé (Italy) | $19.99 $17.99 tonight! Tasting Notes: “Osé” means risqué or daring in Italian: Alice is the only producer in the Prosecco region who has dared to use the Marzemino grape in a sparkling wine. Beautiful color, lovely aromatics, pure, and Brut dry. The pink color and floral aromatics suggest sweetness, but in the mouth the wine is dry and completely refreshing. Eroica Riesling (Washington State) | $19.99 $17.99 tonight! Tasting Notes: Eroica has defined high-end American Riesling with its sophisticated, off-dry Washington style for nearly two decades. Eroica Riesling offers sweet lime and mandarin orange aromas with subtle mineral notes. The mouth-watering acidity is beautifully balanced by flavorful Washington Riesling fruit. Shelburne Vineyards “Crimson Sails” Marquette (VT) | $16.99 $15.29 ! Tasting Notes: Crimson Sails is Shelburne Vineyards’ first ever non-oak-aged expression of the Marquette grape. Marquette, a cold-hardy hybrid descended from Pinot Noir, has become the leading red grape in Vermont. This new wine has been fermented and aged only in stainless steel tanks, providing fruit forward flavors, and smooth textures from first sip through the finish. R.Stuart & Co. Love, Oregon Pinot Noir (Oregon) | $24.99 $22.49 tonight! Tasting Notes: This wine is a beautiful pinot-lover’s pinot noir. Scents of rose and petals come up first, followed by hints of cherries, basil, sage and warm grass. Then the palate brings raspberries, with a sour-candy tanginess. The cleansing acidity and overall balance are pitch perfect. Bliss Family Vineyards - Blissful Red (California) | $12.99 $11.69 tonight! Tasting Notes: This delicious red blend is mostly Zinfandel, Primitivo and Sangiovese with some Barbera, Merlot, Cabernet and Syrah. Is has inviting aromas of dried cherries, plums and clove. Your palate is greeted by tasty flavors of ripe cherry and raspberry, with some cinnamon spice and smoky oak. This wine finishes with integrated tannins and good acidity to make it very food friendly. Teso la Monja Romanico (Spain) | $15.99 $14.39 tonight! Tasting Notes: 92 pts from Wine Advocate! The 2012 Romanico is made from 100% Tinta de Toro (the local name for Tempranillo), and is aged for six months in a combination of new and used French oak. Malolactic fermentation is done in oak, and the result is full-bodied wine with superb richness as well as lots of blackberry, charcoal and cassis intermixed with roasted herbs, creamy baking spices and woodfire smoke. This red should drink beautifully for 7-10 years. Velenosi Visciole Querci Antica (Italy) | $22.99 $20.69 tonight! Tasting Notes: A BEVERAGE WAREHOUSE STAFF FAVORITE!! The base of this wine is the traditional cherries Visciola, an ancient variety of wild cherry (Prunus cerasus) of a dark red color and sour flavor. The historic recipe consists of gathering the cherries in the first week of July and allowing them to macerate whole and partly crushed with sugar, triggering a fermentation process that slowly produces a final syrup, soft and fragrant. The nose is intense and rich, with sensual notes of purple flowers and scents of ripe, pulpy red fruits. The taste is captivating, tangy and fresh with floral notes and a well- defined savour of sweet cherry, blackberry and blueberry jam. An intriguing wine, inviting you to sip more and more, it would be perfect with a bitter chocolate dessert..