FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR FEATURING AN ITALIAN "WINE FLIGHT"

  Karen Klemow of Finewine.com has selected four great Italian wines for a fun flight of 1 white, 1 rose, and 2 red wines for a Friday evening special.  These are four Italian favorites, starting with the Orsolani's "Al Bacio" Erbaluce, a rarely encountered Piedmontese varietal that makes a crisp, dry white wine.  The second wine is Cantele's Negroamaro Rosato (Rose) from Puglia, a round rose with ripe orchard fruits a just a hint of young mango and cooling minerality.  Then we'll add two distinctly different reds.  The first is Poletti's "La Sagrestana" Sangiovese di Romagna, the classic Italian grape, in this case from the Emilia-Romagna region.  We'll finish the flight with one of our true favorites, Vietti's Barbera d'Asti, another classic food-friendly varietal from the Piedmonte.  Join us Friday for this delicious line-up! 

FREE MEDITERRANEAN WINE TASTING, SATURDAY, 1-4:30 PM

Join Jon Amaroso of Winebow as he pours 5 wines from Greece and Italy!   

Finewine.com welcomes Jon Amaroso of Winebow for a Mediterranean wine tasting featuring FREE samples of three Greek and two Italian selections.  The three Greek wines are from Notios, beginning with their delicious Peloponnesian White, a blend of Moschofilero, Roditis and Assyrtico, perhaps the three best-known white grapes of Greece.  He'll follow with two Notios reds also from the Peloponnese, beginning with Notios' Red Blend of Agiorgitiko and Syrah, and Notios' 100% Agiorgitiko- a great Greek red grape in its undiluted splendor.  The two Italian wines are both crowd-pleasing categories from different parts of the Mediterranean basin.  The first is from the great Sardinian producer Argiolas- their "Costamolino" Vermentino di Sardegna- a perfect white for either sipping or food-pairing.  We'll finish with a wine from Valle Reale, their ever-popular Montepuciano d'Abruzzo.  

Come out and enjoy this fantastic line-up- and as always you'll get at least 10% off all of the wines we taste! 

THIS 94-PT SPANISH RED IS EVERYTHING WE LOVE ABOUT SPANISH WINE!

BODEGAS CASTANO'S 2017 SOLANERA VINAS VIEJAS IS ONLY $19.48!

The old maxim says that "A picture is worth a thousand words", and if we adapted that to the world of fine wine, it would probably come out to be something like "One sip is worth a thousand lengthy, gaseous, adjective-laden descriptions...", or words to that effect.  Today's feature wine is a great case in point.  The red wines of Spain are among the most popular at Finewine.com, and if you are among the uninitiated who aren't sure why, one sip of Bodega Constano's Solanera 2017 will do more to explain than all of the verbiage (lengthy, gaseous, adjective-laden, or otherwise) that follows in this newsletter!  The 2017 Solanera is simply delicious, and it tastes like it costs a lot more than our sale price of $19.48!  

Don't miss our next great wine tasting class:

The Pinot Family: The First Family of Wine

November 10 & 11 @ 7PM

In the world of fine wine, “Pinot” starts some of the most familiar names in the business, such as Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio, and all grapes with the “Pinot” prefix are in fact closely related.  These grapes form what we're calling the “First Family” of wine- a family that includes Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris (AKA, Pinot Grigio), and of course, Pinot Noir.  Pinot Noir is the acknowledged star of the family, source of some of the greatest red wines in both the old world and the new.  But though less well-known to American consumers, Pinot Noir’s lighter-skinned siblings produce some of the world’s great white wines.  In this class we’ll explore these three great grapes, and sample great examples from regions as disparate as France’s Burgundy, America’s Willamette Valley, the Alsace region of France, and Italy’s Alto Adige (and yes, a very high-quality Pinot Grigio- Italian for Pinot Gris- may make an appearance).  

So join us in November for the next in our series of wine classes: “Pinot- The First Family of Wine”.  We’ll taste and compare as many as 12 classic wines, and we’ll offer some light hors d’oeuvres to complement the wines.  Tasting classes at Finewine.com are geared to both beginners and experienced wine aficionados alike, and this class will truly offer a little something for everyone.  So join the expert Finewine.com staff as we explore the fantastic family of grapes that gives rise to some of the world's greatest wines.  Come taste, learn, discuss and enjoy!  

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