Yes. It"s Open Bottle Thursday, September 12

Don"t worry about tomorrow being Friday the 13th!

We"re going to make it a lucky weekend for you!!

Not only do we have a fantastic Open Bottle and two great tasting line ups, but we"ve also got a once in a lifetime chance to have dinner with three winemakers at a price that will make your head spin, it"s so low! ($79 all inclusive!!)

If you click on the pic to the right, it will take you to our website with all the info and a way to click for reservations!

Don "t wait. Call your friends and book now!
You"ll be talking about it for the next year!

Sorry that you missed our class on Italian wines this past Tuesday.
We had a great time, tasting great wines that covered the peninsula.
On top of that, Kate made a delicious Ziti!

I promised that I would get that recipe to you and you can look for it in the Sunday newsletter coming your way!
We have classes scheduled throughout th fall.
Sign up now if you want to be certain of having a seat!

Better wines, at Better prices;
Make Every Day a Special Occasion
at
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So that you can better plan your weekend,
you can always review the wines and beers that we will be offering on our website under the Events tab,
so you"ll know exactly what"s coming as early as possible!

There"s a link to the site for each Tasting below as well, under Friday or Saturday!

Can"t wait to see you!!

Always Drink Responsibly.

Kate, Natalie, Heidi, Kathy, Mari, Susie, Beth
Bill, Steve, Rande and Mike

The Weekend starts today with
Open Bottle Thursday!!

2015

$21.00 a Bottle
$108 for six!
(All purchases must be accompanied by a credit card.)
This is a full-bodied, opulent, mouth-filling, savory wine with not a hard edge to be found.
Brilliant now, this wine will surprise Zinfandel blend lovers with its aging ability.

You can click on the underlined event to see a full listing of beers and wines we will be tasting for each day!

Friday: The Robins Cellars, Liz Van Wazer: The Robins Cellars, based in Richmond, has quietly moved its portfolio to the forefront of educated oenophiles in Virginia. To say they are very picky about who they represent would be an understatement.
Liz is one of our favorite reps when we can keep her off the road (her travel itinerary is ridiculous).

Click here to see Friday"s Tasting Wines & Beers

Saturday: Winebow, Margot Blattmann: I know. You"re going to say "Wait. Margot is with Country Vintner"! Well, Country and Winebow got together about a year or so ago and I finally got around to acknowledging the change. The wine is still excellent from some of the most well-known vineyards.

Click here to see Saturday"s Tastings Wines and Beers

Brews: We"re all Commonwealth brews on Friday and an assortment of new and lipsmacking beers on Saturday!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, SEPT 17 - Dinner at American Prime, Tyson"s: 3 Spanish Winemakers

Sunday, SEPT 22 - Meet the Winemaker - Lionello Marchesi Wines, with Cristina Marchesi

Monday, SEPT 23 - Paint N" Sip: Teresa Ahmad

Marietta Cellars
“Angeli Cuvee”
2014
Alexander Valley, California

Before Dave Phinney introduced
The Prisoner there was Marietta’s “Angeli Cuvee”!
Lush, rich almost over powering with fruit it became an instant hit but with only 2000 cases made (estate fruit) it sold out quickly and wasn’t widely available and hence never gained wide recognition.
With the winery changing the look/labeling of all its brands 3 years ago and already selling the 2017 vintage we got an incredible price for you on this bottling!

Angeli Ranch was settled in 1886 and is home to this winery.
The ranch has a extreme variety of sites, from gravel riverbed swales to terraced knolls that produce powerful, yet elegant, Zinfandels.

90 Points Robert Parker"s The Wine Advocate
"One of Marietta’s most serious wines is their 2014 Angeli Cuvée, a Zinfandel-dominated blend with Petite Sirah and Carignan. They make about 2,000 cases of this Sonoma wine.
It is a delicious fruit-forward wine with loads of raspberry, black cherry and roasted Provençal herbs.
It is Mediterranean in style with medium to full body and a whopper at 15.3% natural alcohol,
but there is not a trace of heat. It is fruit-driven, spicy, earthy and hedonistic.
Drink it over the next 3-4 years."

Angeli Cuvee is rich, voluptuous and complex .
Its dense ruby/purple hue is followed by aromas of licorice, black currants and cherries intermixed with hints of camphor and spice.
This is a full-bodied, opulent, mouth-filling, savory wine with not a hard edge to be found.
Brilliant now, this wine will surprise Zinfandel blend lovers with its aging ability. Drink now through 2024

Our Regular Price $28.99
Special Sale Price
$21.00 a bottle

$108.00 for six ($18.00)

(All purchases must be accompanied by a credit card.)

"I grew up watching my dad do magic. Never with cards or sleight of hand, instead, he would transform cardboard wine boxes into suits of armor for my brothers and I, or make up stories on the spot about rusted out cars in the river and turn them into broken down steeds of long gone errant knights. All of us kids would listen to him, fascinated, he had a way of casually turning the everyday, the routine, into something special. Meals were simple but sourced from the garden and eaten outside at sunset. There were multiple hour sessions of hide and seek in the winery that involved crazy ingenuity: building a wine pallet around an empty space to lie hidden or getting wrapped up in a sleeping bag before hiding in a freezer with the door propped open…

That is how I learned to make wine. Watching my dad cook ribs that were sweet but spicy and blending together a fruity Zinfandel and a hefty Petite Sirah so that it would go better with dinner. Everything was transformed to become something better. Creativity and possibility reigned supreme.

I started here at Marietta a week after graduating from UC Davis with in depth scientific and technical training. Plonked down in the middle of the cellar, I was uncertain and tentative but my dad gave me lots of room and I updated the machinery, built out the winery, and showed up day after day just trying to make a contribution by following my gut.

Ten years later, dad is retired and I learned along the way how to make wine by magic. The science is still important: there are times when yeast needs to be fed, oxygen’s interaction with the wine is still crucial, temperature ranges will make or break a fermentation… but, the real magic happens in quiet moments. After a ridiculously long day of harvesting when everyone is gone, walking the cellar between tanks full of bubbling, fermenting wine with the overhead lights off, doing one last temperature check on each tank with the palm of the hand. Thinking about the tons of grape skins, the trainloads of sugar, the massive accumulation of man-hours represented in each tank… turning dark and rich… the possibility in that cellar is palpable.

We are still performing magic here at Marietta. This second-generation winery continues to transform hard work, a blessed climate, special pieces of land, and belief into beautiful liquid expressions of family and place."

Scot Bilbro, Owner/Winemaker

09/12/2019

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