Washington Wine and Cheese

Tuesday, February 26 promises to be a special night at the Washington Wine and Cheese Seminar. We will present five outstanding wines from the award wining Stryker Sonoma Winery.

Louise Shelly and Jeff Kominers have done an outstanding job of putting this tasting together, and we will all get to enjoy their efforts! Stryker gave us some great discounts, some at 40%, to permit us to present higher priced wines. We’ll start with three terrific lively Zins, then a special blend, and finish with a super full bodied Cabernet Sauvignon.

1. 2004 - Stryker Old Vine Alexander Valley Zinfandel - $20
2. 2004 - Stryker OZ Alexander Valley Old Vine Zinfandel - $25
3. 2003 - Stryker Speedy Creek Knights Valley Zinfandel - $32
4. 2003 - Stryker Jen’s Blend Sonoma County Blend - $20
5. 2003 - Stryker Speedy Creek Knights Valley Cabernet - $38

Cheees

1. Taleggio - $13.99
2. Saint-Nectaire - $10.49

Lynne Cool will be guest presenter for the class tomorrow night. This is one you will not want to miss. In addition to exploring the contributions of Italian winemakers to the wine culture of California, Lynne will discuss the much-disputed origins of the Zinfandel grape and it’s relationship to the Primitivo grape of Italy.

Wines will be from both sides of the ocean. From California, there will be two of my favorite Zinfandels from Sonoma County, Seghesio and Trentadue, as well a a wonderful Barbera from Boeger in El Dorado County. From Italy, there will be a Primitivo from Puglia in southern Italy and an outstanding red wine from Friuli in Northern
Italy. This last wine is from a winemaker who was educated in the United States but returned to his winemaking family in Italy taking new world techniques.

There will of course be two cheeses (one creamy and one hard sharp cheese) which were selected to pair well with the wines, as well as plenty of crusty bread.

Please join us for this educational and delicious event!

1. 2006 Seghesio Sonoma County Zinfandel - $20
2. 2006 A-Mano Puglia, Sicily Primitivo - $13
3. 2005 Trentadue Sonoma County Zinfandel - $20
4. 2006 Boeger El Dorado, Ca Barbera - $16.50
5. 2006 Just Me Friuli, Italy Merlot - $31

Wines from Bell Wine Shop

Cheeses:

1. Edel L’Cleron - $18.99
2. Cabot XSharp Cheddar - $8.99

Bread and Cheeses from Calvert-Woodley

It’s been almost a week now and about every four minutes one of the blog posts about Lori, Jill, and Carol wine tasting keeps getting hit with spam comments. They are coming from a website in Amsterdam, NL and are about casino’s, gambling, bingo, and other stuff like that. I have it set up to just mark them as spam, so I can delete them all in batches.

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Wines - Pearsons

1. 2005 - Chateau Belle-Garde - $19
2. NV - Hop Kiln Big Red Prorietary Blend - $15
3. 2004 - Artesa Cabernet Sauvignon - $29
4. 2005 - Prunotto Monpertome - $29
5. 2004 - Kunde Estate cabernet Sauvignon - $24

Cheese - Calvert Woodley

1. Blue Cabrales - $16.49/lb
2. Chistou - $17.98/lb