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The Other Koehler, That's a Good Boy, and Lunacy in the Winehouse

 

     The newsletter and the newsletter's writers took a little break last week, but we're back now and ready to imbibe and coax others to do it right along with us.  We'll start with a couple new fancy additions to the CoWineCo walls of wine.  On a tip from some friends who flipped out over this wine at a restaurant in Montana, we grabbed the only 3 cases available in Southern California.  Introducing, "The Boy" by K Vintners in Walla Walla, Washington (Grenache 88%, Syrah 12%) - 120 cases made, we have 22 btls left in stock. $43.99/btl.

This is rich, layered complexity from one of the most exciting red wine regions anywhere today. If you're a fan of the lighter taste of Grenache, but like your wines big, bad and boastful, this is a great match. We get tobacco, dried flowers, spice, andlight fruit tastes, with a finish that goes from here to Albuquerque.

     And our second addition is the 2005 Koehler Syrah from Santa Ynez - $23.99/btl. We've carried the Koehler Cab and Pinot in the past but after tasting their new Syrah offering, we knew it was time to get this guy on the shelves. Koehler does a great job of producing rich, balanced wines that suggest the terroir of Santa Ynez, without killing the wine with too much extraction or oak.

     If you like wine scores to help you gauge a new wine, Robert Parker just gave this puppy 93 pts saying, "A Hermitage look-alike from Santa Ynez, Koehler’s full-bodied 2005 Syrah possesses notes of road tar, spring flowers, blueberries, crushed rocks, and creme de cassis. With high tannin, layers of flavor, and superb purity as well as depth, it represents a beautiful combination of Santa Ynez’s ripe, pure fruit and the structure and muscle of a great Hermitage from France’s Rhone Valley. I’ll be anxious to see how this cuvee evolves over the next decade or more. - Robert Parker Wine Advocate # 172 Aug 2007"

 

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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 (and 1 beer) Tasting: Lunacy in the Winehouse

This Friday the 14th

5:30-8:30pm

(wines by the glass available from 8:30 to 11pm)

$15/person

5 wines and gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Marketplace

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

Today is the anniversary of the first man-made thing to hit the moon. 48 years ago today, the Soviet Union sent a lunar probe (pictured above looking like a discarded Flash Gordon prop) that reached the moon, carrying the hammer and sickle flag. Speaking of lunacy, it's Amy Winehouse's birthday as well.

wines

Rosenthal Surfrider Unwooded Chardonnay 2005, Central Coast, California

Foxglove Edna Valley Chardonnay 2006, California (90pts Wine Spectator)

Don Rodolfo Tannat 2005, Cafayate Valley, Argentina

Domaine Magellan Syrah/Grenache 2003, Languedoc, France (90pts Wine Spectator)

Unibroue Blanche de Chambly White Ale, Quebec, Canada

Lazy Sunday Tasting

Sunday the 16th

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. Call or email Sunday for selections.

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

 

 

And remember, every Wednesday from 4-9pm you can choose any wine in the store and pop it open for no corkage charge!

 

 

Oh, and also remember, we're now open until 11pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays

 

 

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The Poll Booth - Pet Peeves

     Back to the polling world, last we left you we asked about your hang-ups with white wine. 7% of you said "all white wines taste the same" (this breaks my heart....i want to adopt you like lost kittens and then make you drink bottle after bottle of great white wine....just like I do when i adopt actual lost kittens), 0% of you said you gave in to peer pressure to drink beer instead of wine (this is just an all out lie as we see this happen weekly at our store....come on folks), 28% of you said you only drink white wine in the Summer time, 51% of you said you love white wine unconditionally (some would say then, why don't you marry it? If I weren't already married, I would), 0% of you said you were held hostage by your spouse's taste (again, another lie, probably 4 times a week someone comes in and says they want one wine, but would get in trouble if they didn't get the other wine their spouse loved), and 14% of you tipped your hat to my breakdancing homage "White Wines.....Vision Dreams of Passion". Thanks. And my two man crew"The Breakin' Tigers" from '81 thanks you, too.

     New poll....pet peeves. What's your biggest wine pet peeve? We just watched The Jerk again and seeing Steve Martin get Chablis out of a water cooler reminded me of my father's penchant for a crisp, cold box of Franzia. We've come up with a few common wine pet peeves here on our homepage . Jump in and vote!

 

See You Soon,

John and Jen

 

"You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me"

~ Vizzini, The Princess Bride