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Get Involved, Drink Wine, Have Fun, all while Supporting an Awesome Charity
Come Sip, Shop and Support NHF Nevada. We will have food, wine and awesome silent auction items for you to bid on. Tickets are only $30 in advance, which includes a custom-made NHF wine glass!
Silent Auction Items Needed!
Are you a local business, restaurant, artist, or individual who has something awesome you want to share?
We are accepting silent auction donations for our annual Winter Wine Fest event, now throught January 31st. If you need a request letter please let us know.
Got Stuff? Email Us! cbettis@hemophilia.org
White Rocket Wine Company is re-launching its Dog House line of California super-premium wines with a friendly new label and dogged support for Guide Dogs for the Blind, a charitable organization that provides free guide dogs and training to the blind and visually impaired. Since pledging support for Guide Dogs for the Blind in 2005, Dog House has donated a total of over $214,000 to directly fund their efforts.
“Our pet cause at Dog House is raising money for Guide Dogs for the Blind, whose programs greatly enhance the mobility and quality of life of the blind and visually impaired,” says Ryan Kukol, Associate Brand Manager. “Because Guide Dogs for the Blind receives no government funding, it depends entirely upon private donations. Through sales of Dog House wines, we directly aid this worthy group’s efforts to improve the lives of thousands of people afflicted by blindness.”
Bred from pedigreed vineyards in California’s acclaimed North Coast and Central Coast wine-growing regions, Dog House Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Zinfandel are crafted with a combination of traditional artisan winemaking techniques and state-of-the-art technology. Softly textured and easy-drinking, they’re delicious on their own and wonderful companions to food. Since 2005, Dog House wines have won over 65 medals for quality – certainly a record to woof about.
With its new, playful label illustration of a dog with a dog shock collar sitting outside a doghouse, and a suggested retail price of $9.99, Dog House rests squarely within the Adventure Brand category, which continues to wag the tail of the premium wine market, soaring from 661,000 cases and $68 million in sales in 2002 to nearly 6.8 million cases and $568 million in 2007. Delivering higher profit margins than traditional premium table wines, adventure brands like Dog House appeal especially to Millennial Generation consumers, who are lapping up whimsically themed brands that reflect and reinforce their values.
“The quality and affordability of our wines, coupled with our support of Guide Dogs for the Blind, gives Millennial consumers three doggone good reasons to make Dog House their pet brand,” says Mark Feinberg, Vice President of Marketing.
White Rocket is supporting the new-package launch of Dog House with any array of point-of-sale materials, including a display rack, case card, bottle neckers and shelf talkers for stores, and waitstaff education and feature cards, logoed corkscrews and 3-liter Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon bottles for restaurants. The new Dog House package begins shipping in June, 2008.
Desserts in the Desert “A Sweet Way to Give Back” is an event filled with delicious guilty pleasures that will entice the taste buds while giving back to a local charity, Nevada PEP. Join us November 4th at Sancho’s Mexican Grill from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. where the best local restaurants, bakeries, cafes, and local chefs will bring their favorite and superlative delights for you to sample and savor. Each delectable treat will also have a pairing selection with craft beers, wine, and cocktails.
There will be fun activities for ages 9 to 99, live music and performances.
This sweet event will raise funds, bring awareness, and activism towards Nevada PEP.
www.nvpep.org
The Sweet Deal:
-Sweet treats from area bakeries and restaurants
-Decadent desserts from local chefs
-Sweet pairings w/craft beer, wine, & cocktails
-Live Acoustic music and performances
-Life Size games and prizes
-Family Friendly event
VHS is a live comedy show where Chicago’s best standups make fun of the weirdest videotapes we can find. Everything from awkward infomercials to terrifying workouts escape the dumpster and get another chance to confuse and delight!
This month Tom Wisdom and Ian Erickson host these non-evil clowns:
– Sammy Arechar (Laugh Factory)
– Elizabeth Teets (visiting from Portland!)
– Tim McLaughlin (Laugh Factory)
– Brittany Meyer (Strip Joker)
Friday October 6th @North Bar (1637 W North Ave)
7PM doors / 8PM start
$5 at the door
10th Annual Summer Benefit
Hosted by Molly Channing of Channing Daughters Vineyard
Live Music, Wine, Light Fare
Meet their live animals
Honoring: Ingrid Arneburg and Will Marin
Honorary co-chairs: Frances Cole Jones and Cornelia Guest
Mercer Estates Winery is the 2016 Washington Winery of the Year per Wine Press Northwest.
They planted the first wine grapes in the acclaimed Horse Heaven Hills AVA. There’s no one that understands this land (and what it can do) better than Mercer Estates.
Creating harmony in the ecosystem of our farm, and producing wines that demonstrate the unique terroir of the Horse Heaven Hills is the highest form of art that they can accomplish.
MERCER ESTATES MALBEC, 2014, Horse Heaven Hills 862 cases produced, available on national scale, $19.99 Retail, Blend: 88% Malbec, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon
MERCER ESTATES “SHARP SISTERS” RED BLEND, 2013, Horse Heaven Hills 2,725 cases produced, available on national scale, $19.99 Retail, Blend: 47% Merlot, 41% Syrah, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1% Sangiovese and 1% Petit Verdot
Wine on Wheels Grand Tasting and Silent Auction featuring over 200 wines served by over 60 of New York City’s most esteemed sommeliers.
All-Inclusive Experience ticket includes all-day access to Wine on Wheels: A seat at the one-hour Discovery of Terroir Seminar hosted by Daniel Johnnes, the Meet & Greet Sommelier hour with premium wine tasting, every fast track Seminar, the silent auction and the Grand Tasting.
Admission $325
11am – 4pm
Meet & Greet Pass is a unique opportunity to get early access to the sommeliers in an intimate setting and to sample premium reserve wines for an hour. This ticket also Includes admission to every fast track Seminar, silent auction and the Grand Tasting.
Admission $150
12pm – 4pm
Wine on Wheels Grand Tasting is a chance to bid in our silent auction and taste over 200 wines from over 30 different wine regions poured by over 60 of New York City’s Top Sommelier community and access to every fast track seminar.
Admission In Advance: $95 At Event: $125
1pm – 4pm
Wine on Wheels also is proud to announce the return of our popular Fast Track Seminars. During our Grand Tasting and Silent Auction, top professionals will offer four 20-minute seminars covering exciting wine regions and major topics in the field.
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.
The Spring Fling 2016 event will include music, dancing, food, wine, and spirits, and feature an exclusive performance by Grammy Award Winner and 2016 Trevor Ally Award Recipient Rob Thomas.
The new year is full of sparkle and it’s a great time to crack open that bottle of bubbly. Champagne is a great accompaniment to cocktails, adding just a touch of refreshment. Plus, mimosas are a great way to toast the weekend on the beach, at the lake or on vacation.
The problem is, once you open a bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine, you usually have to drink it right away. And, while this might not seem like an issue with the first bottle, the second bottle is usually in danger of spoiling. Keeping those bubbles popping can be tough.
Until now. . . .this great bubble-lasting, champagne popping and sparkling wine must-have is created by two wine veterans.
This is the New Year’s hosts’ must-have.
It allows you to open that bottle of bubbly tonight AND enjoy it tomorrow or the next day . . .up to a week!
The product is appropriately named, CapaBubbles.
Yup – keep on celebrating through the summer all weekend – or week – long!
CapaBubbles retails for just $15.95.
Definitely a good investment for the champagne lover.
Winemaker Beth Liston marshals the best agricultural and winemaking resources from around the globe to deliver the unexpected: a bold wine that outperforms its price.
Our Pinot Noir is fruit forward with flavors of fresh red cherry and strawberry that are complemented by hints of rose and lavender. The light notes of molasses help lift the fruit and floral character. This Pinot Noir offers a balanced palate with a velvety mouthfeel and a subtle sweetness.
The grapes for this wine were selected from premier California vineyards by our Winemaker Beth Liston. Throughout the 2014 growing season, Beth visited these vineyards daily to determine which blocks would make it to the final blend. In 2014, Beth noted it was a dry and warm year, making canopy management key to allow just the right amount of sunlight on the berries, resulting in an ideal balance of flavor and acidity in the glass.
The grapes for our Pinot Noir were harvested at optimum ripeness, leading to an early extraction of rich color and velvety tannins during fermentation. Beth fermented this wine at warmer temperatures up to 92°F for more intense flavors and fruit-driven aromatics. After fermentation, all lots underwent malolactic fermentation and were aged on oak to add complexity and balance.
I got a sample of Coffee Wine, so now I’m reporting what I thought.
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Friends Beverage Group (aka/The Fun Wine Company) of Miami, FL, has launched the World’s First Coffee Wines ™ — Cabernet Espresso ™ and Chardonnay Cappuccino ™ — in New York under the FRIENDS FUN WINE ® brand. Imported from the EU, FUN WINE ™ is a friendly tasting recreational drink that makes wine fun for the general population with refreshing flavors. The New Lifestyle Drink ™ comes with half the alcohol of wine and has no preservatives, gluten or caffeine. It is very affordable, so everyone can enjoy it. Joe Peleg, CEO, explained, “We believe in ‘Responsible Fun’ and ask consumers to ‘Reduce the alcohol…and Increase the Fun!” Lower alcohol translates to lower calories as well.
FUN WINE™ is a new beverage category of recreational wine drinks for the general population. It is defined not by vintage, heritage or other highbrow hallmarks of wine, and is not for wine aficionados.
You do not sniff it. You do not swirl it in a glass. You do not tout its origin. You do not pour it into red or white wine glasses. FUN WINE ™ does not compete with wine, but is an everyday fun and affordable recreational drink for the masses – and The Alternative to Beer. ™
Check out this video about Breakfast in Bed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W1A5FQVQpU
The new beverage category is distributed in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk by Union Beer Distributors. Upstate distributors include Try-It Distributing — Niagara and Erie, and DeCrescente Distributing — Albany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Washington, and Warren.
Retailers include CVS Health ®, 7-Eleven ®, Tops Markets ® and many convenience stores.
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I had a nice selection of flavors so I waited till I finished all of them before writing the review. The one I liked best was the Peach Moscato.
My overall impression of these is that they are interesting. They aren’t as gross as I thought they might be, in fact I drank all of them… If I were looking for a quick alcohol buzz from a store that didn’t have hard liquor I might be tempted to buy these.
I’m still not convinced that coffee and wine really go together. But it was nice to have a can of something that wasn’t beer, since I hate beer.
These are definitely worth checking out if you, too, are looking for an alternative to take to the beer bashes. Have fun!
