WHAT’S NEW . . . as of 9/3/10
September Wine Update
2008 Rosé Paradiso and 2009
Under 10 Buck Red have both been released
Upcoming Events
(Wedding Anniversary Weekend)
Labor Day Weekend (all three days)
– discount = to number of years you have been married . . . Barbara is standing
by to take your phone order (509.829.9000)
The Next BBC 9/9/10 – delivery only
Boot
it in the Boot
of your Car
Wine delivery to Bothell, West Seattle, and Federal Way
Words from the
Winegrower
Harvest is just around the
corner
The Farmery
Eating all the great produce of
this valley and really great meat now available
September Wine Update
2009 Under 10 Buck Red We do have a new version of
Under 10 Buck Red. This 2009 edition is made from Pinot Noir grown at Bonair.
They had a bit more fruit than they wanted. The grapes were really good stuff
and at a low price. It was easy to make quickly, tasty, and pretty
inexpensively. Only 200 cases made and it is disappearing fast. Still the best
Monday through Thursday wine around.
2008 Rosé Paradiso We have also released the 2008
Rosé Paradiso since the last newsletter. Our tenth vintage of Rosé for our
Tenth Anniversary. We are having it for lunch today with artichokes fresh from
the garden on this gorgeous summer day.
SORRY! Sold out of whites . . . again! And we
are sold out of our Old Rooster Red (buy the Under 10 Buck Red instead) and our
Botrytis Riesling (the Angelica G is on sale!). We should have some white wine
again soon, perhaps in a month? The marshmallow wine is gone! We are pretty
sure we won’t ever have any more Botrytis Riesling. That was a once in a
lifetime occurrence and now it is over.
Upcoming Events
(Wedding Anniversary Weekend)
We are having our annual “reward for relationship
longevity” sale, otherwise known as the Wedding
Anniversary Weekend. We will give you a discount based on how many years
you have been married (or been together, for those of you who are not able to
legally get married – yet). Our largest discount to date is 67 years which was,
of course, a 67% discount.
Angelica G In addition, we also have Angelica
G on special sale right now – two or more bottles at 30% off, at case
quantities (12 or more) it is 50% off. Just in time to stock up for Thanksgiving
– we cannot imagine a Thanksgiving or Christmas without some Angelica on hand
to pair will all of those yummy desserts.
September 3rd is our tenth wedding
anniversary. Some of you have seen this photo (it is from last year). We
completely forgot to do another one for this year, perhaps we can do it the
next time we have Kevin for the weekend (when he turns 14, gasp!). We are not
sure if Paul can still carry him, he has grown quite a bit in the past year.
Barbara is standing by to take your phone order
if you can’t make it here (or you can email it to us).
The Next BBC 9/9/10 – delivery only
We are continuing our mountains to Mohammed –
over the mountains and to the woods – Bung it in the Boot of your Car (BBC) delivery
program. We will be delivering to Bothell, West Seattle, and
Federal Way on September 9.
It is the usual deal: you order wine from us
(and pay for it) between now and midnight on September 7. We will haul it over
to our delivery points (our sisters and friends) in Bothell, West Seattle, and
Federal Way. You arrange to pick it up after we deliver it. We will e-mail you
the address and phone numbers after we receive your wine order. If you happen
to be on our flight path and we have time, we can also deliver it directly to
your door for an additional $5.
Click here for the order form as an Excel file or a PDF. Just let us know whether you would like it
delivered to Bothell or West Seattle or Federal Way (we will e-mail you the
address after you order).
No amount of wine to be delivered is too
large (or too small).
Words from the Winegrower
Birds, bird, birds!#*+#@! They
love flavorful grapes as much as us. As a small vineyard we put netting over
the vines to keep the losses down. It’s expensive, but this way there is
Temprañillo and Riesling left to pick!
This week Paul is busy putting the finishing touches on the 2009 Rose and 2009 Oyster
White and tuning the blend of the 2007 Paradisos Red. It takes several pizzas
to get it just so. We are emptying the barrels for the new vintage, which
should be ready to pick in a few weeks or so.
There is lots of produce being harvested
locally. Plan on buying peaches, sweet corn, pears, and early apples . . . ask
us where to go. Bring boxes and ice chests to fill. This is one of the World’s great agricultural spots!
The Farmery
We are eating out of our garden every day and
other gardens around us. The one thing that Paul cannot seem to grow is corn, so
we are forced to go down the road to get it from Jones Farm and that means it
is already an hour or so old before we eat it! If we aren’t gardening, we are
weeding and planting and weeding and watering and weeding and . . . wait a
minute, that is all gardening!
We are also in the meat business in a small
way. We don’t sell by the pound we sell lamb by halves and wholes and beef in
shares as ground beef. Currently available are some shares of the last cow
harvested. It is really tasty, organic pasture fed, died happy, guaranteed that
you have never had better, low fat ground beef. A share is about 34 Lbs and
works out to under $4/lb. Too much? Split it with a friend, but you will wish
later you hadn’t!
Melons
by the score from the Melon Patch, Kevin’s fund-raising venture to go on a
school trip to Washington, D.C. next spring. If you want to ensure some of the
best melons anywhere, call and reserve some!
Thank you for continuing to buy wine from us.
Give us a call if you don’t want to deal with the order form, we are happy to
do whatever it takes to get our wine to you. If you didn’t keep drinking our
wine, we couldn’t keep doing what we love (which also includes drinking our
wine). So, we raise our glasses to you!
Paul & Barbara
COME TASTE PARADISE!
Paradisos
del Sol
www.paradisosdelsol.com
3230 Highland Drive
Zillah, WA 98953
509.829.9000
Updated
9/3/10