FALL 2024 IMPORTANT DATES

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8/25/24: Last day to request shipping, changes/replacements for your wine club allocations AND Last day to request a skip or cancel - please do so in writing to the above email (Shae)
9/2/24: Cards automatically charged/Invoices sent out (no April fool's joke!)
9/5/24: Wine available for pick up from our Prosser Tasting Room & Flights & Bites Begin (see below)
9/9/24: Ship wine Club Wines (weather pending)  - let us know if you need your wine held. We’ll be watching the weather - we may need to ship in groups depending on cold weather.

9/13/24: WOODINVILLE Pick-up Party! Please RSVP HERE. 4 to 7 pm. 

PROSSER - ENTIRE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER  - Wine club members and two of their guests will receive free flight of the released wine and a small sample plate of food pairings - (redeemable once). We encourage members to make reservations. Please give us 24 hour notice of dietary restrictions/allergies.  Pairing includes cow cheese, goat cheese, salami.

FALL 2024 RELEASE
Wines: 2023 Grenache blanc, 2021 Lil Inky, 2021 Inky
Membership & wine breakdown:

Club3 members will receive: 1 Grenache blanc, 1 Lil Inky , 1 Inky
Club6 members will receive: 2 Grenache blanc, 2 Lil Inky, 2 Inky

Club12 members will receive: 4 Grenache blanc, 4 Lil Inky, 4 Inky
Red Only Club3: 2 Lil Inky, 1 Inky
Red Only Club6: 3 Lil Inky, 3 Inky

Red Only Club12: 6 Lil Inky, 6 Inky

 

Food & Wine pairing note from Rachel

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2023 Grenache blanc

Grenache blanc is such a fun wine to pair with food because of it's sneaky high acid, it pairs well with a huge range of food. It holds up well to things like beef stew and shines with fresh oysters. Because it still feels like summer (or close to it), my mind is leaning towards dishes featuring the fresh produce that is currently being harvested for a featured pairing. If you're like me, and you have a garden, you might be swimming in cucumbers. I'm a big fan, but needing to get creative with these guys has caused me to start throwing them in all kinds of 'salads' - likewise my rock melons are coming off the vine. I've done variations on this recipe lately and I love them all (not a fan of the herbs listed, try tarragon, basil, parsley, kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass, even dill). And what's even better? The Grenache blanc sings with these cucumber/melony flavors!  Cucumber and Cantaloupe Salad from Bon Appetit

2021 Lil Inky

We've gotten such great feedback on this wine, which makes us excited for Washington Malbecs, in general. Lil Inky presents as a super text-book perfect (if we don't say so ourselves) example of a new-world Malbec. And what does that mean? Flavorful, big, smooth - easy drinking. This also means that it's the red-wine choice for easy, simple dinners. I always like to recommend Lil Inky with take out (and I mean most takeout- Chinese, Indian, pizza, burgers), not because it's a simple, uninteresting wine. But because it goes so well with these sort of meals (high fat, high salt), it's a way to level up your take-out dinner by doing zero work. Too often we save good wine for special occasions, when we can use good wine to make any night better. But if you feel like cooking - here's a super simple dish that takes inexpensive ingredients to a new level. And anyone can make. Add a bottle of Lil Inky to this and you're going to feel like you're at a Michelin starred restaurant! Barefoot Contessa's Hasselback Kielbasa

 

2021 Inky
When we were tasting through this release, this wine made me stop, pause, and smile. Jessica always makes great wine, and this vintage of Inky is a prime example of some of her best work. Layers and layers of flavors and complexity. While Lil Inky is an easy drinker, Inky hits you with acid and tannins that challenges those of a Cabernet. This beautiful wine deserves a complex dish full of interesting flavors. One of my favorites is Roman Oxtail Stew. If you read the ingredients (classic versions only, please) you might think it's a joke recipe. Or the ingredients to a Chopped episode. But all these ingredients slow cook to make an amazing, rich, layered stew that is perfect on polenta. Finding oxtail can be tricky (and expensive, thanks to people discovering their beauty), you can substitute shanks (although also expensive sometimes) or soup bones and stew meat if you can't find oxtails. Coda alla Vaccinara

 
Next Traditional Wine Club Release - Winter 12/24