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 Weekend TastingFireplace Reds
4 -8p.m. Fri & Sat Jan 15th & 16th
These tasty reds will put a little warmth back into your week!
We've selected delicious, full-bodied reds to warm up your palate. We'll be pouring our selections at both our River St and Lexington St locations, with a bottle or 2 as well at our Woburn location, Friday, Jan 15th.
Lexington St
-Cannonball Cabernet '06- a California sourced Cab that we sell out of each week! Great value for a California cab
- Clos du Val Merlot '05 -we're offering this premier Napa Merlot at a steal - reg price $31, on sale for $18.99. Ripe blackberry & plum in this lush wine with toasty aromas
-Kinton Syrah '05- 90pts WA-Santa Barbara is famous for Rhone style wines and these grapes were sourced from one of the finest vineyards . This one is big and balanced, with plum and cherry fruits & black pepper accented by dark chocolate aromas
-Joel Gott Zinfandel '07 - a Zin packed with flavors of plum, bing cherries, & blackberry from grapes sourced in both Napa & Sonoma - delicious and full bodied
River St
PRE-ORDER SPECIAL TASTING
90+ Cellars Carneros Pinot Noir '08
We are very excited to bring this special 90+ Cellars wine selection to our River St tasting! We are the first and only store in MA to have this premiere Carneros Pinot Noir available through 90+ Cellars. We will have it available to taste and will be taking pre-orders.
This wine will sell out fast! Priced at $15.99, we're offering 20% off 6 or more bottles on PRE-ORDERS!
-Spellbound Petit Sirah '07 - a delicious combination of steel and barrel fermented aged lots makes this Petit Sirah "mesmerizing".
-Lyeth Meritage'07 - You can't beat this $15.99 Meritage - its Bordeaux style with California ripeness - Cab, Merlot, Cab Franc, and Petit Verdot
-Cannonball Cabernet '06-both stores will be serving up this customer fave
-7 Deadly Zins Zinfandel '07 - you won't feel the need to repent after this Zin- famous Lodi appellation Zin full of ripe fruits, cinnamon and pepper from start to finish
We look forward to seeing you!
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Wine Tasting 101
Do you suffer from winetaste-ophobia? Anxious because you think you never quite know something intelligent to say about the wine you're sampling? Trembling hands and sweaty palms as you proffer your glass forward to receive your taste?
Fear not! Whether your next wine tasting is at the Boston Wine Expo or D&L's weekend wine tasting, check out these simple, time-tested wine tasting tips and you'll be sipping and swirling and asking for the next tasting pour with unabashed confidence!
Take a moment to look at the color & clarity of what's in your glass. This is nothing more than noting if the wine, depending on whether its red or white, has really dark inky characteristics, lighter see-through colors, or tawny, aged colors. For example, young whites will be water-clear to yellow to gold in color versus an aged white that may show more caramel hues. Reds are typically categorized as red, ruby, or purple with a notation of light to dark. Aged reds can show a brownish hue at the edges of the wine in your glass when you tip it slightly - these edges are technically referred to as the meniscus. I'll try to keep the technical jargon to a minimum.
This is my favorite part of wine tasting - ok 2nd favorite part about wine tasting - because the aromas that you smell are just what YOU smell. Sure you can be swayed and think you smell saddle leather, cigar box, and pencil lead, BUT only you know what you are smelling! I've heard more than one person say they can't put words around the aromas, but that's ok.
Ensure you have a good grip on the glass either by the stem or by the globe, and give the contents a good swirl and then quickly put your nose in there. The aromas are volatile, meaning they will become quickly airborne when the wine is agitated, but then they evaporate until agitated again. Aromas can be broadly grouped - ripe fruits, earthy notes, barnyard-esque descriptions, vegetables, cooking spices, or oak-barrel toasted ranges. I remember saying something one time at a tasting that just hung in the air and earned me a snarling glare from the pourer at a crowded wine tasting. It happens to the best of us...a slightly traumatic moment for me, but I think everyone else quickly forgot about it. And I learned that a common Sauvignon Blanc aroma that I announced as "cat pee" is really what the wine world refers to as a "feral aroma". Who knew??
Sip & Swirl This is my favorite part!
Simply put, you're not doing body shots here - don't shoot back the wine pour and slam your glass down. This doesn't mean you need to gargle with it either. Use common sense - you know that thing you came into the tasting with that fades as the tasting pours increase?
You basically have the option of swallowing your wine or spitting it out, but either way you will want to swish and swirl the wine around in your mouth. You can also aerate the wine in your mouth by sucking in air with the wine in the front of your mouth. The first time I saw that I thought the guy I was with was either choking or had too much to drink, but I soon realized its a great way to really open up the flavors in big reds. NOTE: If you want to spit please make sure you know where and what the designated spittoon is and try to position yourself near it. This is for your own good. Spitting doesn't involve spraying your wine tasting brethren, nor dribbling wine down your sweater - both embarrassing events. You really want to make sure you'll have access to it if you want to remain more sober as the tastes multiply. Truly a personal choice....
Remember, wine tasting is fun and explorative - and quite tasty! Bring your friends and enjoy what the ancient Greeks devoted gods to - WINE!
Cheers,
Barbara | |
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90+Cellars Pre-buy
Lot 15 Carneros Pinot Noir
I mentioned this phenomenal opportunity in our tasting notes but here's the scoop!
90+ Cellars, the virtual winery that brings you highly rated wines at not-so-high-prices has brought the FIRST opportunity in Mass to purchase this wine to D&L! This wine is from a California pioneer located in Carneros. The wine is sourced from 12 different vineyards, but mostly in Napa, and aged for 10 months in new French oak.
The wine retails at up to $35.99, but we've got it for just $15.99 and we're offering a pre-buy special. You can order at the tasting, reply to this email, or call either our River or Lexington St stores.
Now through Sat Jan 23rd, pre-order 6 or more bottles at 20% off! Thats only $12.79 / bttle - a case of this premium wine is only $154!
Notes:Wonderfully balanced and coupled with dark-red fruit flavors that while rich, are not overblown. The wine delivers the distinctive Pinot Noir character of black cherry and spice which combine to produce an especially vibrant, and yet elegant red wine.
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Upcoming Event Wine & Cheese Tasting
Sat Jan 30th
River St store
3p.m - 6p.m.
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Visit D&L Liquors at 3 great locations
119 River St.
Waltham, MA 02453
(781) 894-1907
850 Lexington St.
Waltham, MA 02452
(781) 894-1999
485 Main St.
Woburn, MA 01801
(781) 935-1603
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