Wine Tasting and New Pairing

Today, Friday Jan. 22 from 4:30-6:30pm please join us at our location at the French Market for a free wine tasting. With the influx of so many new wines on our shelves during the past week we'd look forward to introducing you to some of the new additions. One of our new wines destined to be one of your favorites is a Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese blend from Mexico. Will we be pouring that one, or maybe a new French red? Stop by and find out.

This week our pairing is a well-loved but rarely seen Stateside cheese from England. Kirkham's Lancashire, hand-picked by our friends at Neal's Yard Dairy is the type of cheese locals call a "buttery crumble". It takes three days of curds to create the lemon and yogurt flavors. When the cheesemaker is ready to make the cheese the curds from the first day's cheesemaking has a nicely soured flavor profile which helps define the finished product. Crumbly, rich and creamy this is a great recent addition to our case, and to your next cheese plate.

Love espresso with a twist of lemon? That's the thinking behind our wine component of the pairing. 2005 Claymore Wines Shiraz and Viognier blend "Walk on the Wild Side" from Australia. Leather, spice with rich coffee notes, this is an exceptionally good Shiraz with a big full body.

New Pairing

This week we're working blue. Blu di Bufala to be specific. Everyone knows that water buffalo milk makes a delicious mozzarella, but this week we've got a rare find!

New to our case is the Blu di Bufala from Bergamo, Italy (just east of Milan). Distinctive, and full-bodied, this cheese is a balance of sweetness and the tangy flavors that blue cheese always imparts. A big flavored semi-firm cheese with a pleasant lingering finish that appeals to die-hard blue cheese lovers, and even those who are new to the blues.

For libation we're going down under. From southern Australia we present another new addition to our wine shelves. 2005 Claymore Wines Shiraz "Walk on the Wild Side".

For lovers of Shiraz this is one of the best representation of the grape that Jan has found. Leather, spice and coffee notes are found in this wine. No need to sit on this bottle, it's drinking beautifully right now.

Just a reminder to you all that while we are closed on Monday for Labor Day, we will be opening our doors at the Loop store Saturday, September 5th at 6:30pm until 8:00pm for our free monthly wine tasting. This month's theme is "Harvest Reds". The season is changing as so are our wines. Come in and get a taste of the new finds.

-Agela