October, 2008

Jennifer's Corner

• Nearly 70 Wines (that's three bottles of wine if you try them all!)
• Food
• Friends
• Live Music Inside & Out

And if you do happen to get through all those wines, we've made it easy for you to get home safely. There'll be a limousine shuttle service available throughout the day for your use (additional fees apply), so catch a ride to the shoppe, then...

Party Like a Rock Star, up to and Including the Limo Ride Home!

Cost is just $25 per person for nearly 70 wines, food, and live music, but hurry because it's $35 the day of the event.

RSVP to 816.505.WINE.

We hope to celebrate with you at Oktoberfest!

 

Inside This Issue:

Upcoming Special Events

Upcoming Tasting Room Selections

Wine Club Wine of the Month

Cellar Club Wine of the Month

Recipe of the Month

Featured Artist

Pinot's "Fun Wine Factoids"

Wine Trivia Contest

Featured Customers

Featured Testimonial

Recommended Resources

The Last Sip

Past Newsletters

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• A standard 4-ounce glass of white wine has 105 calories. A standard glass of red has 110.

• The top five countries in terms of grape production in order are: Italy, France, USA, Spain, and China.

• From the time of the Gold Rush, Zinfandel had been the most widely planted grape in California. Today, it is second behind Cabernet Sauvignon.

• The earliest known wine vessels were discovered in Iran and date to c. 3500 B.C.

• Sonoma Pinot Noir producer MacMurray Ranch was named after My Three Sons actor Fred MacMurray, who owned the property before the Gallo family purchased it and converted it to vines.

Submit the correct answer by October 31st and win a free wine tasting compliments of Wines by Jennifer. In the event of multiple correct answers, the winner will be chosen by random drawing.

Match each wine-producing country with its term for "winery:"

1. Germany	a. quinta
2. Portugal	b. bodega
3. Spain	c. weingut
4. France	d. cave

Congratulations to last month's winner, Nick Holt, who knew that Madeira is considered by some to be the lost island of Atlantis.

Arbonne Health and
Wellness Products now available at Wines by Jennifer!

Simply ask Jennifer if you are interested in learning more about this wonderful line of health and wellness products. Take charge of your health and well-being and treat yourself right. You deserve it!

(Oh, and did we mention you can make money doing it?)

Check out those smiles on Christi and Scott at our Premium Beer Tasting! Other than the fact that they're happy people by nature, there is another excellent reason for their good cheer.

You see, although the Deardorff's have been with us from the beginning as Wine Club members, only Christi really enjoys wine. Although Scott is always a willing participant at the shoppe, he invariably counters Christi's wine glass with a cold beer in hand.

Now with the introduction of the "Premium Beer Era" at Wines by Jennifer, Scott's options have just increased significantly, so with apologies to Paul Harvey, "and now you know the rest of the story!"

Our friends insisted we come to Wines by Jennifer when we visited, and we're glad they did. We live near wine country in California, but have never had so much fun drinking wine as we did here.

Thanks so much!

Paul & Linda McDonald
Los Angeles, CA

(Submit a testimonial about your experience at Wines by Jennifer and if we select it for inclusion in a future newsletter, you'll win a complimentary wine tasting at Wines by Jennifer.)

 

Written by the greatest wine authority of his day, and first published in 1964, The Frank Schoonmaker Encyclopedia has long been acclaimed as one of the very best wine books available. The New York Times immediately called it "the finest quick reference book in the literature of wine."

Because no other wine book provides the reader with as much information in so concise a form, a revised version has been long awaited. Despite all the wine books that have appeared in the past decade, The New Frank Schoonmaker Encyclopedia of Wine is still unique in that its self-contained alphabetical entries make it easier to use than any other encyclopedia on the market. This book has no index - you simply turn to the entry you want and find exactly the information you need.

Completely revised by one of today's top wine experts, the Bespaloff edition takes into consideration the increased interest in the wines of California, Italy, and Australia.

This is a very informative book that we reference often in our Tasting Room!

“A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

That's all, folks - see you next month!