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Eastern European Wine Tasting w/ Blue Danube Wine Company

THIS Thursday, April 22nd

7 - 9 pm

$20/person

5 wines + artisanal cheeses from Auntie Em's

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

You got your Posip in my Pinela!  You got your Pinela in my Posip!  Two great tastes that taste great together (or right after one another).  Now's your chance to taste great wine from Eastern Europe AND gather new exotic sounding grape names to throw around at parties.

In addition to having a dignified name, Stetson Robbins of Blue Danube Wine Company can actually pronounce all of these wine regions and varietals.  He will be our able guide tonight, educating us about all things Eastern European and alcohol-y.

wines

Gue Rila Pinela 2007, Vipava Valley, Slovenia

Toreta Posip 2007, Korcula Island, Croatia

Pfneiszl Kekfrankos 2007, Sopron, Hungary

Attila Gere Cabernet Sauvignon 2007, Villany, Hungary

Dingac Vinarija Dingac 2005, Potomje Pelijesac, Croatia

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In May, we are forming a tasting of all whites from Alto Adige and Friuli in Italy, pretty much our favorite places in the world for white wine

Also... ROSE!   Yes, we are amassing a rose arsenal for our annual pink tasting....details coming soon...

And in August, we just confirmed that Kent Humphrey, winemaker for Eric Kent Wines will be joining us to pour his line of stellar syrahs, pinot noirs and chardonnays.

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REGULAR WINE TASTING SCHEDULE

Friday Wine Tasting:  The Lovely Bone-Jolly

Friday, April 23rd

5:30 - 8:30 pm

$15/person for 5 wines + artisanal cheeses from Auntie Em's

Alright, though we can't top Thursday's tasting for obscure varietals, this Friday is certainly off the beaten path.  Auxerois?  Think the best of pinot gris and pinot blanc blended together.  And a California dry rose made of gamay?  What is this opposite day?  What the hell is going on here???  Holy crap.  Speaking of 'crap' my two year old recently looked at me and said "crap".  I pretended I didn't understand her and just like in a spelling bee she used it in a sentence and said, "ahhhhh, crap."  I'm entitled to one cute kid story a year.  Leave me alone.  

Ok, all done nerding out about obscure wine.  It's a damn fine tasting and you will be mocked for eternity if you don't show up.

wines

Albert Mann Auxerrois, Alsace, France

Edmunds St. John Bone-Jolly Gamay Rose 2009, El Dorado, California

Bielsa Garnacha, Campo de Borja, Spain

Domaine Fontenille Cotes du Luberon Red, France

Quinta de Bons Ventos Tinto, Portugal

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Every Saturday

Wines by the glass from 1 - 11pm

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Lazy Sunday Tasting

Sunday, April 25th

1 - 4 pm

$12/person for 4 wines + artisanal cheeses from Auntie Em's

(call (323) 478-1985 or email for today's selections)

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Every Tuesday

Wines by the glass from 4 - 9pm

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Wine Cellar Wednesdays

Every Wednesday from 4 - 11pm

$0 corkage fee on every bottle in the store!

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Every Thursday

Wines by the glass from 4 - 11pm

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Welcome to the 7th installment of "WINE PARAPHERNALIA THAT MAKES US UNCOMFORTABLE AND/OR SCARED" (or W.P.T.M.U.U.A.O.S. for short)

Oh, we need wine for dinner....whatever will we do?  Wait a minute...what are you standing on?  Oh yeah, it's my James-Bond-Villain-Wine-Cellar-Lair I forgot I had because I'm so rich I can afford to forget things like where my wine cellar is and where I'm going to hide your body after I kill you.  Did I say that out loud? 

Anyway, this is great design but sheesh, really?  How many drunk dinner guests have gone head-first down this Hitchcock movie about alcoholics?  But I'm guessing if you can afford this, you can afford a miniature man-servant who lives at the bottom if your wine cellar and gets your wine for you.  I'm 5'11" when I slouch.  I enjoy cots and canned food and answer to Reginald, Doyle, or "Yoo Hoo, Little Wine Boooy!"

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See You Soon,

John and Jen

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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.

~ George Bernard Shaw

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