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Vote For Wine, Black Velvet If You Please, and The Ghost of Economies Past

Election Night @ CoWineCo

     On Tuesday, November 4th of course we will all be watching the vote tallies and wondering what the future holds for our country. But if you're like us, and this whole election business gives you high blood pressure and a rare disease that makes you throw snack foods at the pundits on the tv screen, you may want to come to a semi-padded place (cork floors...you can bounce your head off them pretty safely) and listen to the results with a glass of wine in your hands.

     We have no TVs (and proud of it), but replacing our normal playlist will be live news all night covering the voting results. Join us to celebrate the democratic process tonight and you get 1/2 price glasses-o-wine all night. We'll undoubtedly be sipping right along with you.

 

Tuesday Bar Hours: 4 - 9pm

six different wines by-the-glass

bring your own food or order-in

 

 

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The Ghost of Economies Past

Folks, we still have the best deal in wine tasting in Los Angeles so please join us this Friday night amongst ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and probably more than one Sarah Palin as we present another Friday 5-wine flight.  Show up in costume and knock $5 off your tasting.  And by 'costume' we don't mean a "Hello, My Name Is.." tag or a funny hat.  Though funny hats ARE great, don't get me wrong, they don't count.

This Friday the 31st

5:30-8:30pm

5 wine flight + gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's

$15/person

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

wines

Dibon Brut Cava, Spain

Bernard Terre Du Pape Rhone White 2005, France

Santa Maria Rancher's Blend Red 2003, Santa Ynez, California

Morgan Cotes du Crow's Red 2006, Monterey, California

Ramian Estate Linden Hills Vineyard Grenache 2006, Lodi, California

 

 

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Black Velvet If You Please 

     Our next art show is one we've been trying to land for three years.  We'd heard of this reclusive art collector Dr. Lemt Petite-Squirrele who was a Fresno raisin magnate in the 40s and who possessed what is arguably the finest velvet painting collection in the known world.  Well, he did exist and CoWineCo is where you will see his velvet art collection first.    

     According to art historian Martin Barrett, after a brief hospitalization in 1949 after what only can be likened to a nervous breakdown, Petite-Squirrele commented on the unique beauty of velvet art, "We are born naked...We add the dimension of wisdom to the dimensions of height and weight. But the wisdom constantly betrays us. It is a false dimension. It is only with the hairy nubs of velvet that we achieve dimensional truth, because it's so clearly attached."

 

 

 

Join us for the art opening:

A World With Hair On It: Petite Squirrele's Velvet Vision

presented by velvet painting ambassador, Jeremy Rosenberg

On Saturday, November 8th, from 4-6pm

@ Colorado Wine Company

Gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Market will be served

 

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New Arrivals

 

CALIFORNIA

Claudia Springs Mendocino Syrah 2001 - $5.99/btl

Keltie Brook North Coast Merlot 2003 - $12.99/btl

Ramian Estate Linden Hills Vineyard Grenache 2006, Lodi, California -

Twenty Bench Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 - $19.99/btl

Stephen Vincent Lake County Sauvignon Blanc 2006 - $9.99/btl

Line Shack San Lucas Sauvignon Blanc 2007 - $13.99/btl

Molnar Family Poseidon Vineyard Chardonnay 2006, Carneros - $23.99/btl

Orin Swift "The Prisoner" 2007 - $34.99/btl (NEW VINTAGE ARRIVING ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON!)

Maybach Materium Cabernet Sauvignon, Oakville  (very limited -- call for availability)

 

OREGON

Shea Wine Cellars Wadenswil Clone Pinot Noir 2006, Willamette Valley - $51.99/btl (very limited - call for availability)

 

WASHINGTON

Owen Roe Sinister Hand Red 2007, Columbia Valley - $24.99/btl

 

FRANCE

Sainte Chanelle Vin de Pays D'Oc Pinot Noir 2007 - $8.99/btl

Cote Pontoise Haut-Medoc Bordeaux 2005 - $17.99/btl

 

ARGENTINA

Paul Hobbs Felino Vina Cobos Malbec 2007, Mendoza - $18.99/btl

Paul Hobbs Felino Vina Cobos Chardonnay - Mendoza - $18.99/btl

 

AUSTRALIA

Woolundry South Australia Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 - $14.99/btl

 

 

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Regular Wine Tasting Schedule

 

*** We hold tastings twice a week on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons , and on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays the bar is open for wines by the glass . Please see our calendar for details on any given day: www.cowineco.com/calendar ***

 

 

Wine Tasting: The Ghost of Economies Past

Friday, October 31st

5:30-8:30pm

(wines by the glass also available from 4:00 to 11pm)

$15/person

5 wines and gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Marketplace

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

wines

Dibon Brut Cava, Spain

Bernard Terre Du Pape Rhone White 2005, France

Santa Maria Rancher's Blend Red 2003, Santa Ynez, California

Morgan Cotes du Crow's Red 2006, Monterey, California

Ramian Estate Linden Hills Vineyard Grenache 2006, Lodi, California

 

Lazy Sunday Tasting

Sunday, November 2nd

1-4pm

$12/person

4 wines and gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Marketplace

No RSVP necessary

wines

(call for selections)

 

Wine Cellar Wednesdays

Every Wednesday

4-9pm

No corkage fee on any bottles in the store!

Grab anything off the shelf for the price of the bottle, ask the nice bartender for some glasses, sit, and enjoy

 

 

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See You Soon,

John and Jen

 

 

Black velvet and that little boy's smile

Black velvet with that slow southern style

A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees

Black velvet if you please

~ Alannah Myles