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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Wine Education

Wine Tasting today at Forysth -- 11am-4pm

  • Terres Falmet Cinsault
  • Novelty Hill Sauvignon Blanc
  • Casa Lapastolle Cuvee Alexander Chardonnay
  • plus the first of our 2012 ROSES
  • 2012 Domaine Grands Bois ROSE
  • 2012 Reserve de la Saurine ROSE



Wine Tasting at all FOUR locations

Taste the Terres Falmet Cinsault at all four of our locations this Saturday, March 23  from 11am-4pm.  (the other stores will also have other wines out to taste)




A little more education:  We are going to try to feature either a grape or a wine region each week at our stores.    We will give you some background information on the grape or region and feature a wine that highlights what we are featuring.  We will taste that wine on Saturday at all four of our locations.   We will post it here in our blog and send it out in our emails - click here to sign up for our emails


I have started a new label "Education" that you can hit to read all the education articles (see the right column under the heading "labels".

CINSAULT:
image from wikipedia

Cinsault: Pronounced (san-soh) Cinsault is the fourth most widely planted grape varietal in France, and is particularly important to the Languedoc-Roussillon region as a blending grape to add color and bouquet. Among other accomplishments, like being the most widely planted grape in Morocco, Cinsault is also the varietal that South African professor Abraham Izak Perold crossed with Pinot Noir in 1925 to make South Africa’s flagship varietal Pinotage. While not often bottled on it’s own, wines made exclusively from Cinsault can be quiet enjoyable for their intense bouquets and soft supple mouth feel, and can be a lovely compliment to lighter meats and fatty fish (tuna or salmon). 

Pick up a bottle of 2010 Terres Falmet Cinsault at any of the four Wine and Cheese Place locations to see what makes this such a compelling varietal. 

2010 Terres Falmet Cinsault.....$13.99
The grapes for this wine are 100% hand-harvested. Yves’ Cinsault comes from a plot of 50+ year old Cinsault vines planted on beautiful hillside vineyards in Saint-Chinian. The wine is vinified and aged in tank. There is no oak ageing.

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