Newsletter Archive

     Happy New Year everybody.  Before we get into any ramblings about wine, beer, sake or mimes, let us just make this clear - you complete us....you had us at 'hello'....you make us want to be a better man.  In return for all your support, we will become a better, faster, stronger, tastier wine store that brings you your slippers and newspaper in the morning and doesn't pee on your rug.  In fact...new tagline....Colorado Wine Company: We Don't Pee On Your Rug.  New branding done....check. 

     Now what else is going in this month....hmmmm...oh yeah, if we're a little absent later this month and you see me running into walls and napping on the couch in back, that's because we'll have ourselves a new little baby boy who is going to sleep and sleep and keep on sleepin' and nap for six hours and never cry and take out the trash and invent something shiny and fancy so we can retire early. Boy wonder....check.

     Well, let's begin 2010 with a stellar tasting of Northwest reds w/ Northwest wine specialist and all-around hurricane of a woman, Pattey Ryan. And by 'hurricane' I mean she's knows her stuff backwards and forwards and could drink you under the table.

Washington / Willamette

Washington Cabernet Sauvignon & Oregon Pinot Noir

Thursday, January 14th

7-9pm

$18/person

Five wine flight + gourmet cheese pairings from Auntie Em's Kitchen

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

the lineup

Jezebel Pinot Noir 2008, Oregon 

McKinley Pinot Noir 2008, Willamette Valley, Oregon

Domaine Serene Yamhill Cuvee Pinot Noir 2007, Willamette Valley, Oregon

Kiona Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2003, Washington

Owen Roe Sharecropper Cabernet Sauvignon 2007, Washington

(selections subject to change depending on availability)

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Welcome to the 4th intallment of "WINE PARAPHERNALIA THAT MAKES US UNCOMFORTABLE AND/OR SCARED" (or W.P.T.M.U.U.A.O.S. for short)

Wow, seriously?  Is this so you can drink while using your chainsaw? What on earth do you need both hands free for when drinking?  The Electric Slide is going to get REALLY REALLY messy at cousin Sharon's wedding.  This is only acceptable if off screen he's holding two other glasses of wine in his hands.

   I'm guessing this is some middle-management multitasker's bid to really press the flesh (grchk...i just threw up in my mouth) at those conferences that I'm so, so, so, so happy I don't have to go to anymore. 

I doth protest too much....yes, I want one.

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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:  King Me

Friday, January 8th

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

Today Elvis Presley is 75 years old.  I say IS because you know...he's still alive.  I mean they misspelled his name on his tombstone at Graceland.  I did the 7 hour trip from Knoxville to Graceland twice with a good friend and we made an agreement that we could only eat at Waffle Houses all the way there and back.  We saw Elvis at one of them and he got his hash browns scattered, smothered, covered and raked.  That's how you know it's him because they don't add the 'raked' part for just anybody. 

So come join us to tip a glass to the King tonight.  We're pouring a new Inzolia from Sicily (yet another grape you may have never heard of) and 4 of our best selling wines of 2009. 

wines

Carusso y Minini Inzolia, Sicily, Italy 

Heron Chardonnay, California

Nada Blanca Tempranillo, Central Coast, California

Uvaggio Rosso Vecchio Barbera, Sierra Foothils, CA

Barrel 27 'Right Hand Man' Syrah, Central Coast, CA

Lazy Sunday Tasting

Sunday, January 10th

1-4pm

$12/person

4 wines and gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Marketplace

No RSVP necessary

wines

(call for other selections)

Wine Cellar Wednesdays

Every Wednesday

4-11pm

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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The Poll Booth - Trendy

     New Year's resolution #84, I will update the poll more often on the homepage.  I will I will.  But more than likely it will not always relate to wine.  Like maybe I'll just ask your favorite color....or your favorite Curling team.  But today, we're going to build off of Epicurious.com 's top 10 predicted food trends of 2010.  They put forth that food trucks will fade and things like fried chicken, lamb, high-end butchers and homemade beer will take center stage.  Let's try our own list... will it be bacon wine? feed bags? ..please VOTE HERE

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See You Soon,

John and Jen

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I don't have any use for bodyguards, but I do have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

~ Elvis Presley

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