Ladies and Gentlemen, Put Your Hands Together for SLO Down Wines, and Sexual Chocolate!
March 9, 2012
They essentially started as bootleggers that were barely old enough to drink.
Brandon Allen, now 27, was working in construction and attending an occasional college class in San Luis Obispo. Bo Silliman, now 25, was studying premed at the University of Louisville in Kentucky in between throwing keggers. And 27-year-old Chip Forsythe, who didn’t have a whole lot to recommend him other than he was a decent wrestler, had somehow managed to get into Cal Poly.
Chip Forsythe and Bo Silliman were best friends in high school back in Dallas. After moving to San Luis Obispo to go to college, Forsythe met Brandon Allen when they started dating roommates. Eventually, all three would come together to keep the party going – straight into building a budding wine brand that bucks convention.
Posted in News | Tagged Sexual Chocolate, Sexual Chocolate wine, SLO Down Wines | 2 Comments //Italian Wine Dinner Fundraiser at Primi Piatti.
March 9, 2012
Italian Wine Dinner Fundraiser on Monday, May 7th at Primi Piatti 2722 Park St in Riverside. Ticket price is $75 per person for a 4 course dinner with a wine pairing for each course.
Special Menu for the event:
Appetizer
Portobello Mushroom with Grilled Beef Tenderloin, Sauteed Garlic, Roasted Peppers & Crumbled Gorgonzola with Brandy Demiglaze
Salad
Organic Mixed Greens with Hearts of Palm, Walnuts, Tomatoes & Lemon Basil Dressing
Weekly Wine Specials at W90+
March 8, 2012
From now until Wednesday, March 14, W90+ are offering a 10% discount (their normal full case discount) when you buy just 3 bottles of the following 2 wines in any combination. Of course, both of these wines are available for you to taste before you purchase.
Lafage Côté Est
2010 • Grenache Blanc Blend • Côtes Catalanes, Roussillon, France
Regularly $12.99 Sale Price $11.69
90 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate:
"Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris, Chardonnay, and a bit of Marsanne… delightfully scented with honeysuckle and iris…its palate (a) combination of juicy lime with the bite of cress (and) tangerine rind… finishes with a striking sense of levity…mouthwatering. Look for it to prove phenomenally versatile over the next 12-18 months."
What W90+ think:
This beauty will enthral those that are open-minded to new experiences! It reminds us of high-quality white Rhone wines that sell in the $20-$25 range. This would be a great match with take-out Thai food!
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Alexander Valley Vineyards, Cabernet Franc, Sonoma County.
March 8, 2012
Grape
100% Cabernet Franc
Facts
- A well-made Cabernet Franc is without a doubt one of my favorite wines; although very few wineries produce a pure varietal wine from this little-know Bordeaux grape, and it’s usually overshadowed in blends by Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Pure expressions of Cab Franc are fairly difficult to find, but I can’t encourage you enough to try and seek out a bottle for yourself and let me know your thoughts!
- The vineyard that provides the fruit for Alexander Valley Vineyards wines was purchased by Maggie and Harry Wetzel back in ‘62. The land was originally home to orchards and livestock, but in an effort to “keep up with the Joneses” (with “the Joneses” being Napa Valley) the family made the move to plant vines.
- Even though Alexander Valley Vineyards can be regarded as a BIG winery (averaging 100,000 cases a year), they’ve still managed to keep themselves family-owned and operated, and resisted the temptation to sell-out.
12 Creative Ways to Recycle Wine Bottles.
March 7, 2012
It’s no secret that Pinterest has taken the Internet by storm, with its veritable ocean of funny cat photos, inspiring haircuts, motivating quotes, and creative DIY projects for around the home.
I have however started to question some of these “pins”. What I’d really like to know is if the majority of these “creative ideas” are actually tried and tested by the author? Or, are they just taking the piss, and copying and pasting together a bunch of photos from Google Images, trying to make us believe they’re ever-so creative in their own home?
Anyway, so here’s one I stumbled across yesterday for: 12 Creative Ways to Recycle Wine Bottles. I’ve duly followed each one with my own personal thoughts…
Not bad, not very unique, but not bad! I’ll let this one slide…
……and then what? So you have a bunch of wine bottles covered in yarn in your house? So that every time you have guests over, they ask “….errrrmmm…why do you have a bunch of wine bottles covered in yarn in your living room?”
I think this is probably one of those ideas that looks really good in the photo; so you try it for yourself, but the finished result just ends up looking crap.
Posted in Funny | Tagged 12 Creative Ways to Recycle Wine Bottles., Pinterest, Recycle wine bottles, Recycling | 4 Comments //Study Shows Not all Wine Drinkers are Created Equal.
March 6, 2012
A wine expert’s “acute sense of taste” may mean that expert ratings and recommendations are irrelevant to wine consumers who were not born with the ability to discern small differences in a broad range of tastes, according to a team of international researchers.
"What we found is that the fundamental taste ability of an expert is different," said John Hayes, assistant professor, food science, and director of Penn State’s sensory evaluation center. "And, if an expert’s ability to taste is different from the rest of us, should we be listening to their recommendations?"
In a taste test, wine experts showed more sensitivity to tastes than average wine consumers.
"Just like people can be color blind, they can also be taste blind," said Hayes.
The researchers also found that people who were more adventurous in trying new foods were also more willing to drink new types of wines and alcoholic beverages, but this food adventurousness did not necessarily predict wine expertise. While wine experts were more likely to try new wines and alcoholic beverages, Hayes said they were not more likely to try new foods.
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