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Wine Of The Month Club

Posted by admin on Apr 5, 2010 in Viticulture, Wine Tasting, wine club

Enjoying award-winning, limited production wines, our wine of the month members learn about the family behind the wine, get an inside look at how their wine is made and details on what makes their wine special!

Recommended by these leading magazines:

  • Food & Wine,
  • Bon Appetit,
  • Redbook,
  • Inc.,
  • Robb Report
  • and many others!
  • What better way to celebrate good times than with great wine? Whether the occasion is a birthday, a wedding, an anniversary, a promotion, a new home or you need to send a special ‘thank you’ — show how much you care with an upscale wine gift that will be remembered.

    Wine Club Members also receive a monthly issue of Uncorked Magazine – which includes a new and delicious recipe from the personal kitchen of our featured winery. Wine of the month members can pair their monthly wine selections with recipes.

    Wine Club Membership As A Gift

    A Wine Club Membership makes gift giving easy! Send as many months as you wish and we’ll handle all the details and include a personalized gift message from you. It’s a fun and unique gift very special occassions! Business associates, family, friends, or that special someone, will truly enjoy, guaranteed!

    Choose From Different Wine Clubs

  • Pinot noir wine club
  • Chardonnay wine club
  • Ambrosia wine club
  • With four great wine-of-the-month clubs to choose from, we have wine selections to suit all tastes and budgets.

    The Premier Club

    Our Premier Club is our most popular wine gift, featuring monthly shipments of two bottles of award-winning red and white wine from California’s best ‘mom & pop’ wineries and our entertaining 12-page, full-color newsletter, Uncorked®.

    The Signature Series

    Our upper-level club, Signature Series, offers only the rarest and most coveted wines from California. Shipments include two to four bottles of highly rated red or white wine and detailed tasting notes.

    The International Series

    Our International Selections features small wineries from around the world. Shipments include two bottles of outstanding red and white wines and an engaging full-color newsletter.

    The Aged Cabernet Series

    For a rare and extraordinary gift, consider the Aged Cabernet Series. Our newest and most exciting club features finely aged Cabernets from Napa’s most prestigious wineries.

    Introducing Our Corporate Rewards Program!

    What better way to stay top-of-mind with your best business contacts than by sending a monthly or quarterly wine gift? Whether you need a tasteful referral gift, a way to thank your best clients and partners for a successful year or a reward for your top employees, The Corporate Rewards program makes gift giving fun! Click here to learn more.

  • Discovering smaller, award-winning wineries whose wines are not typically found in local stores or wine shops. Click here to read about recently featured wineries and the families behind their award-winning wines!
  • A fun and easy way to learn about wine and California’s wine scene with our informative and beautiful 12-page, full color newsletter, Uncorked.
  • Convenient, “to your door” delivery.
  • No more guessing, no hassle and no more bad wine.
  • Your wines can be delivered monthly, every other month or even quarterly.
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    Beer Reviews #13 – Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale

    In this video I review Sierra Nevada’s Barleywine Style Ale. Very strong stuff!

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    Winter Spiced Ale Recipe

    6.6 lbs Dark malt extract
    3 lbs dry dark malt extract
    2 lbs wildflower honey
    1/2 lb choc malt
    1/2 lb black malt
    1/2 lb Munich malt
    1/2 lb flaked barley
    1/2 lb malto dextrin
    7 cloves
    3 oranges
    3 sticks of cinnamon
    2 whole nutmegs
    2 oz grated ginger
    1/3 cup molasses
    2oz cascade hops (whole leaf)
    1oz Galena hops

    Mash all the grains for 30 min

    Boil the malt extract, honey, molasses and the galena hops for 30 minutes

    Add 1oz cascade hops along with all the herbs and oranges to the boil for another 25 minutes, adding the remaining 1oz cascade hops during the last 10 minutes of the boil, for aromatics.

    Cool the wort down, strained the oranges and hops and everything before dumping into the primary fermenter.

    Pitch yeast.

    Adapted from a recipe found on foodandwineblog.com

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    Winter Beer

    Brewing special seasonal beers predates modern history and has its origin in the pagan celebrations of winter solstice. Later, as monasteries often functioned as the local brewery, some monks made the the first holiday commemorative beers to celebrate the birth of Christ. Winter beers are as much a state of mind as a style, but beers best for fending off the cold of a long winter night — such as old ales, strong ales, barleywines and strong lagers — are often associated with winter.

    Beer Hunter.com

    Fruitcake, the most feared of holiday gifts, who eats it, certainly not beer drinkers. They hope for six packs of beer. If very good over the past year their reward will be a ‘big beer,’ one with sufficient body and alcohol to ward off the cold chill of winter. You can almost hear them say “Give me a big beer, not some wimpy fruit cake.” Surprisingly, it was fruitcake that gave mid-winter brews such distinctive character.

    Real Beer.com

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    Online Wine Clubs

    Are you spending too much for wine? Wondering if you have options? Well look no more. See a unique online wine buying club that delivers quality wines for a low cost. How can they do this? Here’s a explanation from their website:

    How do we do that? Simple. We cut out the only cost you can’t taste (marketing). And we spend more on the stuff you can taste (wine).

    The price you pay for your wine is made up of the cost of the wine (obviously), taxes and duty and marketing.

    The bad news for small winemakers is that no matter how good their wines are, they don’t sell themselves (until we came along). So they have to either sell the wine to one of the big brands for peanuts. Or they have to buy a suit, an air ticket, and waste their time and money travelling the world selling their wines. So the price of the wine goes up. Which is bad news for you.

    We want to change all that.

    We champion small independent producers, who are passionate about making great wine – and not so passionate about being salesmen

    We pay them a fair price (we often pay cash on the nail to help their cash flow)
    And we cut out all the crap between you and them, that you don’t want to pay for, and you can’t taste. Like shops. And mail order. And importers, wholesalers, agents and other assorted middlemen.

    That’s only one feature of this online wine club. Other features include:

    Wine Makers – learn more about the person making your wine

    Wine – A nice list of over 150 different wine to chose from

    Groups – Interact with other online wine club members

    Tastings – List of upcoming tasting in the area

    Being an home wine maker, I personally enjoyed the Wine Makers section because it gave me more insight into the person making the wine and their styles.

    If your looking for a great online wine club to join.

    This is a paid review.

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    Beer Reviews #12 – Saranac Pumpkin Ale

    All the taste of pumpkin pie in liquid form
    Written: Sep 14 ‘08 (Updated Oct 25 ‘08)

    Product Rating: Product Rating: 4.0
    Pros: authentic, organic, strong seasonal flavor; fairly smooth; not too heavy in body

    Cons: Might be a little too strong overall for lightweights; could be seen as gimmicky

    The Bottom Line: This doesn’t taste any worse or better than a bigger-named pumpkin beer, so why not opt for the underdog?
    Read full review

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    Do you belong to a wine club at a local tasting room/winery? What makes it the best wine club? How do I choose

    Posted by admin on Aug 25, 2009 in wine club
    karenghutson asked:


    We have lots of vineyards around us—some small, some large. All offer wine clubs. It is hard to choose. What should I look for? What is a decent price?

     
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    Wine club ideas. I’m forming a wine club in the fine wine shop I work in. What do you think of this?

    Posted by admin on Aug 12, 2009 in wine club
    LAUGHING MAGPIE asked:


    Members receive:
    A segmented wine bags that holds 6 bags, 5% off each time you fill it.
    Access to the expertise of our fully qualified sommelier.
    Monthly meetings focusing on rare varietals, quirky winemakers and up and coming wine regions.
    Monthly newsletter, including alerts of price and availability of products.
    Gift certificate for 20% off next purchase by e-mail, valid for 1 month from your birthday.
    Advance notice of up-coming tastings, winemaker’s dinners and local wine and vine events.
    Correction: wine bags holds 6 bottles.
    I like the deli / butcher idea, since we are in a hotel I have access to the chef. Food pairings!!

     
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    Can anyone suggest a good wine club?

    Posted by admin on Aug 12, 2009 in wine club
    Ken and Julie B asked:


    I am looking to join a wine club. Does anyone know of a reputable one?
    I live in Southern CA, driving distance to both Napa Valley and Temecula Valley.

     
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    Are you a member of a wine club?

    Posted by admin on Aug 6, 2009 in wine club
    r s asked:


    how do you manage the tasting notes of wines you’ve tasted in your club? how do you manage the membership? how do you select wines to taste as a group?

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