Speak and Spell No Evil, Bubbled Over, and May Old Acquaintance Be Not Forgot

***IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!  We received some great press in LA Weekly just a few days before Christmas.  Click here to read***

May Old Acquaintance Be Not Forgot

     Siiiilent Niiiight, Hooooly....yay another sweater!!...POP!...may ooooold acquaintance beeee ...ZZZzzzzzzz.  That's about how fast the holidays went by for us.  Wow.  As we wrap up our second Christmas season and approach CoWineCo's second birthday in February, we are reminded how lucky we are to be able to do this for a living.  From the bottom of our hearts, thanks to all of you for supporting us in 2006.  We're looking forward to finding (and drinking) hundreds of new wines for your dinner table in 2007.  Here's our top 5 list of the most under-priced wines added to CoWineCo in 2006:

1.  Chateau Caraguilhes Corbieres Red, France

2.  Montpellier Viognier, California

3.  Blacksmith Chenin Blanc, California

4.  Kenneth Volk Cabernet Sauvignon, California

5.  La Vielle Ferme Luberon White, France

Disagree?  Send us your favorite CoWineCo selections of 2006 and we'll publish the top 5 customer selections in the next newsletter.   

Speak and Spell No Evil

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak and Spell No Evil

6x4"  Acrylic on Canvas

     Alan Griswold is back with a new art show hanging on the CoWineCo walls from now through February.  Though we just hung them in the first week of December, almost half of his paintings already sold!  Monkeys and wine: two great tastes that apparently taste great together.  So, Alan added a few more selections to the walls and we're excited for the official opening on the 20th.  For more information on The Monkey Show and the artist himself, click here.

The Monkey Show

Saturday, January 20th

6:00-8:30pm

Complimentary gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Marketplace

A selection of 7 wines ranging from $5-$10 per glass

Bubbled Over

Mark your calendars bubbly fanatics, we're doing our second annual and very practically titled, "Let's Get Rid of All the Extra New Year's Bubbly to Make Room for New Wines" tasting.  This tasting will take place a week from Sunday on the 14th and on this day only, all bottle purchases from today's tasting, no matter how many bottles, will get the 10% case discount.

Bubbled Over Tasting

1-4pm

Sunday, January 14th

$12/person

5 bubblies from around the world, gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Marketplace 

Check our calendar next week for bubbly selections: www.cowineco.com/calendar

Wine Tasting Schedule

***We're trying to cut down the length of our newsletters and will only list our weekly Friday tasting theme and other special events going forward.  We still hold tastings twice a week on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons, and on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays the bar opens at 4pm for wines by the glass.  Please see our calendar for details on any given day: www.cowineco.com/calendar ***

This Friday Night the 5th

Wine Tasting:  Happy Mung Day!

5:30-8:30pm

$15/person

5 wines and gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Marketplace

Please RSVP to: info@cowineco.com or (323) 478-1985

We have learned after arranging close to 100 tastings thus far in our short existence that there is always a holiday somewhere to celebrate by tipping a glass of wine.  This Friday, for all you Discordianists, it's Mung Day.  Which, as we all know, celebrates the Discordianist apostle, Hung Mung. Discordianism is a modern, chaos-based religion founded in either 1958 or 1959. It has been described as both an elaborate joke disguised as a religion, and as a religion disguised as an elaborate joke. Some of its followers make the claim that it is "a religion disguised as a joke disguised as a religion."  We're just going to avoid any controversy and adopt it as a reason to do another wine tasting.

Tonight we are pouring some old favorites including a rich Lodi zinfandel, a monastrell from Spain, a chenin blanc from Dry Creek, a sparkling Cava from Spain, and a red tempranillo from Rioja, Spain.

wines

Avinyo Cava, Penedes, Spain

Dry Creek Chenin Blanc, California

Hecula Red, Yecla, Spain

Conde de Valdemar Crianza Rioja, Spain

Clay Station Old Vine Zinfandel, Lodi, California

See You Soon,

John and Jen

"[ George hands Mr. Martini a bottle of wine ] And wine... that joy and prosperity may reign forever. Enter the Martini Castle."

~ George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life