[Cornell Wine] Cornell Wine This Week

Thu Jun 7 09:55:04 PDT 2007

CORNELL WINE COMPANY
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UPCOMING TASTINGS
June 15 – Petite Sirah
June 22 – Austria with Ewald Moseler
June 29 – Wines for Your Cookout
July 06 – Shop Closed
July 13 - Southern Hemisphere Wines
July 20 – Spain
July 27 – Germany with Ewald Moseler

FRIDAY, June 8, 4:30 - 7:00pm

VENETO/NORTHEAST ITALY

CHEESE & SALAMI PLATES
This week we are adding a Salami Plate in addition to our usual  
Cheese Plate.
Asiago Mezzano                                        Cow’s  
Milk                           NE Italy
The classic cheese from the northeast of Italy.
Cacio de Roma                                         Sheep’s  
Milk                         Lazio
This cheese is bathed in sea salt for 24 hours and then aged on wood  
for 30 days.  It is somewhat similar to Pecorino Fresco.
CHEESE SAMPLER PLATE $3.00
We offer two Italian meats:
Dry Salami
Sopressata
SALAMI SAMPLER PLATE $3.00

It would have been so easy to choose all VENETO wines, but we need to  
try other areas as well.  While we will taste three different styles  
from VALPOLICELLA, the selection also includes wine from COLLIO and  
ALTO ADIGE.
1. We start in COLLIO which is a DOC within the FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA  
area.  The BRANKO 2005 PINOT GRIGIO is not inexpensive, but is in a  
class of its own relative to many “supermarket” Pinot Grigios.  This  
wine was awarded Tre Bichieri (the highest award) in the 2007 Gambero  
Rosso Italian Wines, which said “elegance is the keynote of the 1000  
cases released, which gives mixed fruit and tropical aromas and  
firmness, intensity, freshness and persistence in the mouth”.  What  
more can I say? – the wine has more fruit than many Italian Grigios,  
but it has that dry, minerally finish that is uniquely Italian - $19.75

2. Now to VENETO and VALPOLICELLA which is probably the best known  
red wine from the area.  While many lower-end such wines are thin and  
acidic, the VAONA 2005 VALPOLICELLA CLASSICO is, to my palate, the  
best value Valpolicella on the market today.  A blend of the three  
major varietals of VALPOLICELLA – CORVINA, RONDINELLA and MOLINARA -  
the wine offers ripe berry fruit, a touch of spice, and a smidgen of  
wood (40% of the wine spent time in large oak barrels) - $11.50
3. We now go further north to ALTO ADIGE.  Often lumped together with  
TRENTINO, the wines are different because ALTO ADIGE has more higher  
elevation vineyards in the mountains. CASTELL SALLEGG is in KALTERN,  
SÜD-TIROL, overlooking LAKE CALDARO.  Their white grapes are grown on  
the hillsides, but the red are on the flatter lands around the lake.   
The 2000 LAGREIN RISERVA is drinking beautifully now, showing lots of  
blackberry fruit with nice touches of spice and wood (the wine spent  
18 months in a mix of French barriques and large oak barrels).   
LAGREIN often has a slightly tart finish, but the years in the bottle  
seem to have minimized this - $20.00

4. Back to VENETO and another style of VALPOLICELLA.  The TOMMASI  
2003 VALPOLICELLA RIPASSO is a classic of its type, and was awarded  
Due Bichieri in the 2006 Gambero Rosso Italian Wines.  A RIPASSO is a  
VALPOLICELLA that has been refermented on the dried skins of the  
grapes used to produce AMARONE.  This imparts a richness to ripe red  
berry fruit, adds a hint of raisins to the wine, and adds complexity.  
- $21.50

TRY THESE FOUR WINES FOR $10.00

Once again we offer two PREMIUM POURs, both from the VENETO:

We go back to the producer VAONA and their 2003 CASTAROTO.  This wine  
just has a IGT ROSSO del VERONESE as it does not meet the  
VALPOLICELLA DOC rules as far as grape varieties.  The wine is a  
blend of 50% CORVINA CORVINONE (a special clone of CORVINA), 30%  
RABOSO, 10% CABRUSINA and 10% OSELETA.  As with AMARONE, the grapes  
are partially dried before fermentation which gives a rich, slightly  
raisiny quality to the wine.  The wine goes very well with game.  A  
poor man’s AMARONE? - $27.00

TRY THIS WINE FOR $3.00/Taste or $5.50/4 ounces

After one “poor man’s AMARONE”, how about another?  BERTANI is one of  
the best-known producers in the VALPOLICELLA area.  A few years ago  
they started a new product line under the VILLA NOVARE label (this is  
their home property).  The VILLA NOVARE 2000 VALPOLICELLA CLASSICO  
SUPERIORE “OGNISANTI” is produced from a single vineyard in the  
OGNISANTI CRU which is a small area of south-facing, hillside  
vineyards.  A blend of 65% CORVINA, 30% RONDINELLA and 5% MOLINARA,  
the grapes are partially dried before fermentation.  This is a rich  
VALPOLICELLA with touches of earth and raisins on the nose.  The  
palate is substantial with flavors of black fruits and spice, and the  
finish very long - $36.00

TRY THIS WINE FOR $4.00/Taste or $7.50/4 ounces
TASTE BOTH FOR $6.50
NB: All prices are subject to change without notice.  The above  
information is based on verbal information from distributors, and  
actual wine prices will depend on the price invoiced at delivery to  
Cornell Wine Company.

SATURDAY, June 9th

Noon – 5 PM

Free tasting

We will have all four CORNELL WINE CLUB SELECTIONS open for all to  
taste:

PICOLLO 2005 GAVI di GAVI, PIEMONTE, ITALY

Regular Price: $13.50                  Member Price: $11.48

HERBERT PAZEN 2005 RIESLING SPÄTLESE ZELTINGER HIMMELREICH, MOSEL,  
GERMANY

Regular Price: $20.00                  Member Price: $17.00

TORRE ORIA 1999 RESERVA, UTIEL-REQUENA, SPAIN

Regular Price: $15.75                  Member Price: $13.39
DOMAINE Le SANG des CAILLOUX 2003 VACQUEYRAS “CUVÉE AZALAIS”, RHÔNE  
VALLEY, FRANCE

Regular Price: $28.00                  Member Price: $23.80

See earlier email for full details.

Looking forward to seeing you all,

Cheers,
Mick & Pauline
Cornell Wine Company
14740 NW Cornell Road, #90
Portland, OR 97229-5400
(503) 531-3981
mick at cornellwine.com
www.cornellwine.com
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