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Experience Palpitations As You Take Your White Horse Up the Big, Manly Mountain and Taste Some Sake (or EPAYTYWHUBMM for short)

     Finally, the 2008 Sake tasting we've been promising many of you for months.  Our excitement can best be summarized in haiku...

Rice wine in glass

life is short

meet my tummy

      Join us this Saturday for a whole new sake line-up including the very hard to find Ishizuchi Niogri Sake which just happens to be the best Nigori style sake we've ever had. 

Ishizuchi Shirouma "White Horse" Nigori

This one is rather potent and will sneak up on you like a ninja with a Jagermeister shot if you're not careful.  High in alcohol but not 'hot' on your palate, this unfiltered nigori sake has a flowery nose with a hint of anise -- rich and starchy, but not sugary sweet.  Remarkable.

(we have no picture for this one because the all-mighty Google claimed it didn't exist)

Otokoyama "Man's Mountain" Junmai

This popular sake is extremely dry, light, soft, smooth and alkaline with a rich palate.  That's a lot of descriptors....you'll just have to try it for yourself.

Harushika Tokimeki "Palpitation of Sake" Sparkling Junmai Sake

This festive sparkling sake is subtley sweet, but ends dry on the palate.  We get notes of sesame, pears, bananas and melon.  Low alcohol  SMV –80, acidity 5.5

Tsuki no Katsura Ginjo

If there is any brewery that isn't afraid of experimenting, it's the Tsuki no Katsura brewery in the Fushimi district of Kyoto in western Japan. One of the oldest and most regal of breweries in the area, it is single-handedly responsible for the fact that nigori sake even exists today as a commercial product.  But, this Saturday, we do not taste their Nigori...oh no...on Saturday we taste their ridiculously good Ginjo sake.  It's yeasty, nutty and floral all the same time, finishing with a smooth texture that would make you smile even on tax day.

Ohyama Ginsuika "Big Mountain" Ginjo

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The Future Is In Plastics

     Many of you stopped in wondering where those cool plastic, stemless wineglasses were that you read about in the LAtimes recently.  Well, now we got 'em.  From GoVino, finally a fairly elegant plastic wineglass for those Hollywood Bowl jaunts this Summer.  And that little thumb indentation in the side assures that after that 2nd glass, gravity doesn't take away your wine.  But if it does, they're shatterproof.  Refill, enjoy.   Sold individually wrapped for $2.25/glass.   

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Top 5 Colorado Wine Company Secrets That We Don't Want to Be Secrets

1.  We have a parking lot behind our store.  Oh yes, it is true.  Access the alleyway via Caspar or Maywood.

2.  BYOF - Bring Your Own Food.  We don't serve food so please, bring your own.  Or better yet, get takeout from Eagle Rock's lovely eating establishments like Brownstone Pizza, Dave's, Oinkster, Fatty's, Auntie Em's, Larkin's, Taco Spot, Columbo's, or Coffee Table.

3.  You get 10% OFF if you buy 12 bottles (of all one thing or of different bottles).

4.  We can keep a running history of what you buy in our system so you don't have to rely on your slowly failing memory.  Just ask while you're checking out and we'd be happy to add your profile!

5.  We have lovely little gift cards that can be purchased for any amount of money including 1 Gajillion dollars if you so choose.

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Regular Wine Tasting Schedule

*** We hold tastings twice a week on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons , and on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays the bar is open for wines by the glass . Please see our calendar for details on any given day: www.cowineco.com/calendar ***

Wine Cellar Wednesdays

Every Wednesday

4-9pm

No corkage fee on any bottles in the store!

Grab anything off the shelf for the price of the bottle, ask the nice bartender for some glasses, sit, and enjoy

Wine Tasting: White Hat Society Day

Friday the 25th

5:30-8:30pm

(wines by the glass also available from 4:00 to 11pm)

$15/person

5 wines and gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Marketplace

Please RSVP to: info@cowineco.com or (323) 478-1985

Many people are aware of the Red Hat Society, but do you know the White Hat Society?  Today the White Hat Society celebrates their 34th anniversary.  34 years of celebrating big hair, cowboy hats, pom-poms, cross-dressing, and diversity.  So, as always, come and tip a glass to their anniversary and use it as a reason to taste some fine wine.

wines

Joseph Drouhin Macon-Villages Bourgogne, France

Gazela Vinho Verde, Portugal

Finca Luzon Syrah/Monastrell, Jumilla, Spain

Don Rodolfo Tannat, Argentina

Col del Mondo Sunnae Montepluciano d'Abruzzo, Italy

Lazy Sunday Tasting

Sunday the 27th

1-4pm

$12/person

4 wines and gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Marketplace

Our Sunday tastings will now feature slightly higher-end wine selections. Our Friday tastings get a little too loud to discuss the wines in great detail (we're not complaining), so if wine knowledge is your grail, Sundays are the best tastings for you.

(323) 478-1985 or info@cowineco.com

wines

(call or email for selections on this weekend)

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Where Did All The Diners Go?

Every once in awhile a cool building goes up for sale in Eagle Rock and Jen and I sit there hoping that something interesting goes in that reflects the non-chain feel of Eagle Rock, and compliments the neighborhood on the whole.  Well, we've decided to announce the most recent business/building for sale here in the newsletter in the hopes that some of our readers and customers have always dreamed of owning a cool, 50's diner. 

Cindy's Coffee Shop has a 22 space parking lot, income from a billboard onsite, and has been used in dozens of feature films and commercials over the years for that perfect, orange, 50's interior.  Please, somebody do something great (again, or keep a great thing going) here!

Call Douglas Whisenand @ The Piken Company for details:  (818) 755-2737

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See You Soon,

John and Jen

Sushi Bar Assistant: How come I always have to get the sake? You listen well... for thirty years, you make the fish, I get the sake. If this were the military, I'd be General by now.
Hattori Hanzo: Oh, so you'd be General, huh? If you were General, I'd be Emperor, and you'd STILL get the sake. So shut up and get the sake.

~ Kill Bill, Vol. 1