Join us this Friday for a free tasting featuring two wines made from the Cabernet Franc grape variety. From the Veneto region, comes Alfonso Soranzo’s 100% Cabernet Franc “Lo Sfuso di Collina” bottled in an unconventional crown cap. Much closer to home is Keuka Lake Vineyard’s Cabernet Franc made by winemaker Ian Barry, who uses grapes grown at Overlook Farms vineyards on the neighboring Seneca Lake. Try both this Friday!
CABERNET FRANC TASTING
Friday, January 27
5:30-7:30pm
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Cabernet Franc Tasting, this Friday
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Cocktail Hour: Gin Martini feat. Dorothy Parker Gin
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Taste this classic cocktail made from New York Distilling Company’s Dorothy Parker Gin.
COCKTAIL HOUR: GIN MARTINI // Thursday, January 12, 5:30-7:30pm
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Pinot Noir Gift Pack
Friday, December 16th, 2011
Beguiling, noble, enchanting and often deliciously easy-drinking, Pinot Noir is a favorite of connoisseurs and casual drinkers alike. In Burgundy, its ancestral home, it makes ethereal and earthy wines with firm structure and focused fruit while in California, a warmer climate produces bodacious body and ripe, robust textures and aromas. Our Pinot Noir Gift Pack, featuring the wonderful Givry from Domaine Chofflet-Valdenaire and the fabulous Mendocino Ridge from Arista, offers an elegant and well-priced way to explore this immensely popular variety from two of its essential regions.
And remember: you can taste both Pinot Noirs featured in this Gift Pack tomorrow afternoon from 3:00pm!
For more information please call 212-725-6516 or email info@vinosite.com.
Pinot Noir Tasting, this Saturday
Monday, December 12th, 2011
From the classic French Burgundy to Mendocino, CA, throughout the world Pinot Noir continues to inspire both winemakers and consumers alike. Now you can taste two expressions (as featured in our Pinot Noir Gift Pack) of this famous variety.
PINOT NOIR TASTING
Saturday, December 17
3:00-6:00pm
NY State Gift Pack: Support your local winery this holiday!
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Vino’s holiday gift packs are the perfect present for the wine lover in your life. Over the coming weeks we’ll be featuring our terrific range of holiday gift packs. And what better place to start than right here in New York! New York State has always been an important producer of fine wines in the United States. Significant plantings of native varieties date to the 1850s. Since the 1970s both the east end of Long Island and the upstate Finger Lakes have evolved into two of the most important production zones on the east coast. 2008 Blaufränkisch from the South Fork’s Channing Daughters and 2009 Falling Man Dry Riesling from upstate Keuka Lake Winery both represent the great potential of NY State wines. This holiday support your local winery!
For more information please call 212-725-6516 or email info@vinosite.com.
Columbus Day Weekend Wine Tasting
Friday, September 30th, 2011
When Columbus arrived in the New World he must have been pretty thirsty, but you can bet he didn’t have a bottle as good as these on hand to quench his parched sea-faring throat! This Columbus Day Weekend taste two of America’s finest: Hansom Sonoma County Merlot 2007 and Boxcar Sonoma Coast Syrah 2008.
COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND WINE TASTING
Saturday, October 8
3:00-6:00pm
Jack is back!
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
Join us for another intriguing cocktail hour this Thursday, when we’ll be mixing Jack Rose made from Clear Creek “Eau de Vie de Pomme” 8 Year Old Barrel-Aged Apple Brandy. This classic cocktail is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury’s The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks and is also featured in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises.
Cocktail Hour: JACK ROSE
Thursday, September 29
5:30-7:30pm
For more information please call 212-725-6516 or email info@vinosite.com.
The Sazerac is back!
Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Vino’s classic cocktail hour is heading back down to N’awlins this Thursday! You may recall our dalliance with Mint Juleps in the past — this week we’re bringing you the Crescent City’s quintessential cocktail: the Sazerac is back!
The Sazerac is one of the oldest known cocktails; indeed the origins of this drink date back to before Civil War. It is believed to have been created by Antoine Amédée Peychaud in the 1830s, making it (according to some reports) the first cocktail to be invented in America. It was named by John Schiller in 1859 to coincide with the opening of his Sazerac Coffee House in New Orleans (both names probably derived from Sazerac-de-Forge et Fils, a popular brand of Cognac).
Women clamoring for Sazerac’s at the Sazerac Bar in the Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, 1949.
Peychaud’s Sazerac was essentially a combination of Cognac and bitters, although the recipe has continued to evolve over the years. Various versions still abound today, but the modern Sazerac is invariably made using rye whiskey, Peychaud’s bitters, and absinthe or pastis. In 2008 it was declared by the Louisiana State Senate as the official cocktail of New Orleans.
Cocktail Hour
SAZERAC TASTING
Thursday, September 8
5:30-7:30pm
Blood Orange Bloody Mary
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
It’s tomato season, so what better cocktail to serve than Bloody Mary? As is the Vino tradition, we’re giving this classic drink a twist — of orange that is! We’ll be using Charbay Blood Orange Vodka!
This elixir of life hails from sunny California, where its produced in Napa by Marko Karakasevic. As spirits writer Chris Carlsson notes, with “thirteen generations of distillers, the Karakasevic Family have a line longer than the Beams (the only other family to come close).” Karakasevic starts with 100% organic oranges and then works hard to extract all the flavor and color (a process which takes nearly six months). This extract is then blended with Charbay’s signature vodka.
Come try this tasty concoction this Thursday! And don’t forget: I Trulli is celebrating La Festa del Pomodoro through the month of August!
Cocktail Hour:
Blood Orange Bloody Mary
Thursday, August 18
5:30-7:30pm
Primitivo Tasting, this Saturday
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Taste three expressions of the ancient Primitivo variety this Saturday afternoon, from 3-6pm. We’ll be pouring two primitivi pugliesi, plus a Zinfandel (Primitivo’s Californian sibling) from Amador County.
Bacco Primitivo 2008
$10
Poderi Angelini Primitivo di Manduria 2007
$32
Sobon Estate Amador County Zinfandel “Rocky Top” 2008
$18
PRIMITIVO TASTING
Saturday, August 13
3:00-6:00pm