[Cornell Wine] Cornell Wine This Week

[Michael Beard]

CORNELL WINE COMPANY
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July 06 – Shop Closed
July 13 - Southern Hemisphere Wines
July 20 – Spain
July 27 – Germany with Ewald Moseler
August 03 – Portugal
August 10 – Mediterranean Islands

FRIDAY, June 29th, 4:30 - 7:00pm

Wines for Your July 4th Cook-Out

MEAT PLATE
This week it seemed appropriate to offer meat rather than cheese.  We  
asked New Seasons for thin slices, but did not realize how thin their  
thin was - but we are sure you’ll enjoy these tastes!
Toscano Salami
Applegate Farm Pepperoni
Alps Sweet Sopressata
Mortadella
MEAT SAMPLER PLATE $2.00

Our tradition on the Friday before July 4th is to pour a selection of  
USA wines suitable for your cookouts.  Despite the fact Matt Kramer  
in latest Sunday Oregonian recommended three furrin wines for your  
cookout, we will stick to our tradition! (However, we do have two of  
Kramer’s selections in stock for your drinking pleasure).

1. It can be hot near a grill, but reject beer and drink white wine.   
With OREGON PINOT GRIS getting more expensive by the month, I’ve  
looked for better value elsewhere.  RON BUNNELL was a wine maker at  
Ste. Michelle for several years, and then he started his own winery  
in WASHINGTON under the BUNNELL FAMILY label.  He has now decided to  
keep that label for Rhône varietals and has launched the RIVER AERIE  
label for other grapes.  His 2006 COLUMBIA VALLEY PINOT GRIS under  
this label is a lovely wine with lots of fruit but a nice crisp  
finish and a great price - $12.50

2. We stay with the same winery for our next wine.  The RIVER AERIE  
2005 COLUMBIA VALLEY SANGIOVESE is almost a mini “Super Tuscan”  
without the excessive oak of many of the “real things”.  A blend of  
90% SANGIOVESE and 10% CABERNET SAUVIGNON, the wine was aged in 2 and  
3 year-old French barrels.  It has lots of berry aromas and flavors  
(strawberry, loganberry), and then a trace of cassis on the finish.   
The tannins are refined, but the wine is big enough to go with many  
meats including game - $15.50

3. When will MERLOT get its reputation back?  Perhaps this wine will  
help.  The CHALONE VINEYARD 2003 MONTEREY COUNTY MERLOT is no soft  
fruit bomb.  Although it offers lots of rich, briary fruit, it has  
good structure and length.  To me it tastes as though there is some  
CABERNET SAUVIGNON in the mix, although the website says the wine is  
100% MERLOT - $15.00

4. JACKSON DOWNS is a new label for me and then I discovered it was a  
label created by a CALIFORNIA winery especially for an importer in  
England.  Unfortunately the Englishman died of a heart attack before  
the wine was shipped.  His company was frozen because of legal  
issues, and the winery had to unload the wine.  A local distributor  
bought it all, and we can offer the 2001 CALIFORNIA SYRAH at a  
remarkable price.  Not great SYRAH, but a good $10 bottle of wine now  
available at - $6.00

5. I can still remember when we first tasted a B.R.COHN CABERNET  
SAUVIGNON and we immediately bought a case.  Somehow the winery  
disappeared below most people’s radar screens.  Now 17 years later we  
offer their 2005 NORTH COAST SILVER LABEL CABERNET SAUVIGNON.  The  
wine is made from fruit from two the home vineyard, OLIVE HILL, and  
other well-known vineyards.  To me this is classic California  
Cabernet Sauvignon; while still young it offers lots of cassis fruit,  
some oak nuances, and well-integrated tannins.  Lovely stuff - $19.50

TRY THESE FIVE WINES FOR $10.00

For our PREMIUM POUR we move to a WALLA WALLA winery:
While July 4th is more about quaffing less expensive wines, we  
thought we should have one slightly more expensive wine for you to  
taste.  SYZYGY is a new winery to me and, according to the label, the  
word means the moment of perfect alignment between three celestial  
bodies.  On October 14, 2004 the sun, moon and earth aligned causing  
a partial eclipse over Alaska and Hawaii, and the winery’s 2004  
COLUMBIA VALLEY CABERNET SAUVIGNON celebrates that event.  The wine  
is a blend of fruit from the CONNER LEE (17 year old vines) and  
SAGEMOOR (32 year old vines) vineyards, and was aged for 21 months in  
French oak.  The nose offers ripe cassis, vanillans and toast, and  
the palate offers lots of ripe fruit and well-integrated oak.  The  
finish is long and the fruit intensity hides the 15+% alcohol - $32.50

TRY THIS WINE FOR $4.00/Taste or $7.00/4 ounces

SATURDAY, JUNE 30th
Noon – 5:00PM
Free Tasting

As usual we will have two wines open for FREE TASTING.  Current  
selections are:

CHÂTEAU MIRAVEL 2005 CÔTEAUX VAROIS BLANC is from PROVENCE and is  
made from 100% ROLLE.  This is a wonderful summer white - $16.00

CHÂTEAU de la ROULERIE is based in ANJOU in FRANCE’S LOIRE VALLEY.   
Their 2006 ANJOU ROUGE is 100% CABERNET FRANC offering lots of juicy  
fruit with good acid balance but none of the “green flavors”  
sometimes associated with Loire Cabernet Franc - $12.00

Cheers,

Pauline & Mick
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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