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Air-Swap specialists measure your warm air intake and cooling output.
They examine your duct configuration and determine how to increase your air flow,
so the cold your air conditioner is producing is
mixed throughout the house--especially the second floor.
It eliminates a cold basement and hot second floor.
Most HVAC systems are starved for air--
Air-Swap
adds ducts to make your furnace and AC more efficient.
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Charles Marshall is selling Welton Place,
Denver's largest residential "Green Building" development,
which consists of 11 contemporary Townhomes,
as well as 101 state of the art Luxury Flats,
and 4 spacious row homes.
The Luxury Flats at 2300 Welton will be LEED
(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
certified upon completion of the 7 story,
101 unit building in 2009.
Contact Charles at:
Kentwood City Properties
1660 17th St. Denver-80202
303.522.0183p
charles@kentwoodcity.com
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Are you interested in learning more about wine?
Join the Denver Wine Group to savor wine and conversations,
build new friendships, and learn as you go.
Beginners and experts welcome!
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Terroir and elegance often walk hand in hand,
with thought-provoking subtleties.
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Private Preserve blankets your open bottles,
making a layer between the wine and the air.
One bottle will last through dozens of bottles of wine.
Private Preserve feels like it is empty when you pick it up.
Stretch your wine dollars,
preserve your aromas, flavors,
and structure with Private Preserve.
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Read about it today, experience it tonight.
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Bivio 2006 Pinot Grigio IGT Delle Venzie, Italy
Floral aromas offer a perfume like nose.
The fore-palate is filled with flavors of apple, watermelon, pear,
while the rich mid-palate offers notes of carnation and candied ginger.
A hint of lemon candy emerges on the finish.
Crisp and refreshing,
a great white for lighter fare. The Stelvin closure is a bonus.
Excellent flavor the next night!
92 points -- tasted 4/2/2008 -BF $12
Wilburs Total Beverage, Downing Street Wines & Liquors,
TJ's Wine and Spirits, Belleview Square Wine and Spirits,
Bear Valley Wine and Spirits, Leadville Liquors, Spirits at Mountain Village,
Rocky Mountain Moonshine, Busch Liquors, Party Spirits, Even in the End, Steins and Vines,
Tenacity Wine Shop, Uncle Sid's Bottles, White River Liquor, Arrow Liquor Mart,
Bubbles, and Grape Leaf carry this wine.
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Bivio 2006 Chianti, Tuscany, Italy
Pressed flower aromas escape the glass.
In the mouth the wine is layered, with notes of wild cherries, plum,
balsamic, white pepper, fresh cut herbs, and green tea.
Bivio's earthy canvas supports the classic gun metal-mineral Chianti finish.
The Stelvin closure is a bonus.
91 points tasted 4/10/2008 BF $12
Downing Street Wines & Liquors
carries this wine.
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Bivio 2006 Tuscan Red, IGT Tuscany, Italy
A sultry red blend of 65% sangiovese, 20% cabernet sauvignon, and 15% merlot.
Sultry, it offers a canvas of black tea, with subtle tones of
black cherry, milk chocolate, autumn leaves, and minerals.
Perfumy rose petal tones fill the mid-palate.
The blackberry finish is brambly and sweeps the mouth with acidity.
The Stelvin closure is a bonus.
92 points tasted 4/10/2008 BF $12
Downing Street Wines & Liquors
carries this wine.
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Vini dei Menhir 2004 Cinquepassi, IGT Salento, Italy
This 100% negromaro is intensley extracted, offering an opaque color of deep purple and
aromas of tobacco as it pours into the glass.
Soft, yet ripe, packed with blackberry and pomegranate flavors,
a hint of fresh cut herbs, and a touch of cream.
A smooth red with lower tannins and bright acidity.
Vinified and aged in stainless steel.
91 points -- tasted 2/29/2008 -BF $11
Bella Bistro in Arvada, Costco Liquors, Highlands WineSeller,
Crossroads Wine & Spirits in Grand Junction,
Lido Wine Merchants, Reserve List Eagle Bend,
Apple Jack Liquors, Lukas Liquors, Superior Liquor,
Vino in Steamboat Springs, The Kitchen in Boulder,
Parisi Wine Bar in Highlands, Cheers Liquor Mart in Colorado Springs,
Garlic Mikes in Gunnison, The Wine Company in Greenwood Village,
Aspen Wine & Spirits, Acme Liquor in Crested Butte,
Niwot Liquors, Yia Yias Eurocafe,
Downing Street Wines & carry this wine.
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Vini dei Menhir 2005 Zero, IGT Salento, Italy
100% negromara, a native grape of Italy.
Dark purple color, offering no chance for light to penetrate.
The highly extracted hue leads to complexity on the palate,
layers of sliced berry pie, cigarbox, vanilla, black pepper, leather,
and black currant marry with a fine tannic grip.
The finish offers a distinct blackberry flavor.
Exceptional for the price;
a travelogue for the taste buds to sunny Southern Italy.
93 points -- tasted 2/292008 -BF $13
Bella Bistro in Arvada, Costco Liquors,
Crossroads Wine & Spirits in Grand Junction,
Downing Street Wines & Liquors, Reserve List Eagle Bend,
Of Grape & Grain in Aspen, Ron's Liquor in Westminster,
Lukas Liquor in Lone Tree,
Italian underground in Glenwood Springs,
Acme Liquor in Crested Butte,
Garlic Mikes in Gunnison,
Wet Grocer Discount Liquors in Gunnison,
Centennial Wine & Spirits in Louisville,
Marz Tapas and Wine in Telluride,
Wallaby's Liquors Warehouse in Denver,
Dolan's in Boulder, Evergreen Discount Liquor,
La Cavasita in Niwot,
Via Toscana in Louisville,
Wine Merchant in Durango, Peregrine Liquor in Colorado Springs,
and Highlands WineSeller carry this wine.
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Vini dei Menhir 2005 Quota 29, IGT Salento, Italy
This wine is 100% primitivo.
Generally, producers do not groom this grape for fine wine stature,
but Menhir had a different idea for its primitivo vines.
Lovely aromas of roses and berries greet your nose.
In the mouth the wine is smooth, ripe, with a focused note of blueberries.
It is dense and layered offering notes of cinnamon, clove,
tobacco, blackberries, and allspice.
The acidity balances the ripe fruit flavors,
while the soft tannins lead to a floral finish.
A polished prize.
93 points -- tasted 2/29/2008 -BF $17
Bella Bistro in Arvada, Costco Liquors, Highlands WineSeller,
Downing Street Wines & Liquors, Crossroads Wine & Spirits in Grand Junction,
Mondo Vino, Corks in Montrose, Pettyjohns Liquor and Wine in Boulder,
Cheers Liquor Mart in Colorado Springs,
Osteria Marco, Joy Wine and Spirits, Frasca,
Reserve List Eagle Bend,
and KaCee's Wine & Spirits carry this wine.
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Cave Creek Chili Beer, Cave Creek, Arizona
I took one sip on this brew while it was cold and was promptly floored by the heat.
Fortunatly, I had to set it aside for a while before tasting.
When I came back to the chili beer,
it had warmed to nearly room temperature.
It was an interesting and very drinkable beer at that temperature.
The heat was subdued and the flavor of the lager was not overwhelmed.
The pepper contributed to the canvas of flavors at a warmer temperature.
Chamomile, lemon, and floral notes held up against the peppers bite.
The flavor of the pepper added an interesting facet.
I think this beer would be wonderful at room temperature and served with Mexican fare,
mild Mexican.
Tasted 4/11/2008 -BF $8 a six pack
Heritage Wine and Liquor, Downing Street Wines & Liquors,
Crossroads Wine & Spirits in Grand Junction,
and Wilburs Total Beverage carry this beer.
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Chef's Basket
Imagine being invited over to the chef's house to see what he's cooking
for his family and being asked to stay and eat.
This is the latest concept from Chef Florian Wehrli.
Have you ever wanted to go right into the kitchen and learn how to cook
that favorite meal you had? Now you can! That's right, come in, put on an
apron and help prepare that day's meal.
Every day will feature a new menu highlighting seasonal,
local foods and also feature a retail are where you can take home bakery items
as well as cheese from Windsor Dairy.
Chef's Basket
1345 Water Valley Parkway, Suite 300
Windsor, CO 80550
970-545-3074
(In the space formerly occupied by Alberto's Express and located
next to Uncorked Wine and Spirits).
Come on in and let us share with you everthing Chef Florian likes best about food.
There are three words beneath our logo; Dine. Cook. Shop.
They carefully selected them to emcompass everthing Chef's Basket has to offer.
- Made from scratch meals-to-go
- Retail and frozen prepared foods
- Wine lounge and creperie
- Cooking class and demonstrations
- Special events, wine dinners and tastings
- Full service catering
- Personnal Chef services
A 360° food experience!
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Make a reservation and make a difference.
Dine out on Thursday, May 1st at one of the restaurants listed below,
and 25% of your bill will be donated to
Project Angel Heart,
an organization in Denver and Colorado Springs providing meals to people facing HIV/AIDS,
cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
Please refer to the list below for participating restaurants.
1515 Restaurant, Aix Restaurant, Avenue Grill - Denver, Bent Fork Grill - Aurora,
Bistro Vendome, Black Cat, Black Pearl Restaurant, Bloom - Broomfield, Capital Grille - Denver,
Cucina Colore, Fruition Restaurant, Great Northern, Lola - Denver,
Luca D'Italia, Mizuna, Nine 75, Nine 75 North, North - Denver, Panzano,
Randolph's, Red Square Euro Bistro, Rioja, Pesce Fresco,
Solera Restaurant and Wine Bar, Strings, Table 6,
Tamayo Restaurant, The Summit Steakhouse, Trinity Grille,
Washington Park Grille, Yia Yia's Euro Cafe, and Zengo.**
**Note: This is not the complete list.
Not all restaurants on OpenTable.com are participating in
Dining Out for Life
and not all restaurants are participating for the full day.
Some are making a 25% donation for dinner or lunch only.
For more information please visit
www.opentable.com.
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How we score wine:
Wines are scored by several factors.
- A wine is compared against its peers.
Higher scores are earned if a wine
is a great example in is price, region, style, variety, blend, etc.
- A wine can be scored higher for being different than its peers.
- The wine should not be flawed.
A wine is flawed if it is unbalanced, too tannic, too acidic,
flabby (not acidic enough), under-ripe, over-ripe, lacks a mid-palate, lacks a finish, or is hot.
Occasionally, a flawed wine can earn a score in the 90s
because of its complexity. Its positive attributes overwhelm its flaws.
We indicate a wine is flawed by its description.
Flaws are often subjective.
If a wine is corked, cooked, over the hill, or oxidized it is disqualified.
- A wine must offer complexity.
A wine must offer several flavor facets
in order to earn 90 points or better.
The more adjectives, flavors, and desirable descriptors attributed to a wine,
the better the score.
- A wine should drink well for over 24 hours.
We gas all open wines and taste them over several days.
Many scores are added to on the second and third day the wine is sampled.
Some wines are scored down the second night.
- A wine is assumed perfect before it is opened.
Every bottle of wine has the potential of earning 100 points.
- A wine is scored down for being overvalued.
- A wine is scored higher for being undervalued.
- We don't publish bad reviews.
There are two main reasons we do not publish bad reviews:
We understand that a sample we are evaluating might be off.
There may be no way of knowing this unless we get another sample and compare.
We also acknowledge that the consumer does not remember vintages,
but does remember label names.
One bad review could sully the reputation of an otherwise great producer,
who might have had one bad vintage.
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Vocabulary
Each week we'll include a few wine (or beer or spirits) terms.
To read more terms go to the
vocabulary
page. This page will grow as we add more terms.
cooked:
when a wine has been exposed to heat it can become spoiled.
A cooked wine has a baked fruit flavor and often has a bit of fizz.
The cork may be pushed up and wine may have
leaked out and over the outside of the bottle.
A cooked wine can also taste of nuts and turpentine.
Heat can break the seal of a wine bottle and cause it to oxidize.
Flavors of oxidation are similar to a wine being cooked.
corked:
2,4,6-trichloroanisole, or TCA is a mold taint that comes from infected corks.
This mold is so prevalent that it can infect an entire winery.
It is a difficult eradicate because it thrives on bleach.
When a bottle of wine is severely tainted, or corked, it can taste like wet dog, mildew,
wet cardboard, or ground up rubber bands.
As revolting as a corked bottle can taste,
TCA starts out as a loss of fruitiness with no ill flavor.
Even though it tastes like it could kill you,
you can drink the wine, but I don't know why you would want to.
finish:
The lingering impression a wine leaves after it is swallowed (or spit)
is referred to as the finish.
The finish is part of a wine's structure.
A finish can offer flavors that were prominent on the palate
or completely different impressions.
Some wines have a long finish with evolving flavors, such as better quality rieslings.
Wines that have a non-existing or short finish are considered flawed.
flabby:
A flabby wine is soft in the mouth, lacking acidity.
Acidity offers an opposite facet to fruit flavors, alcohol, and tannins.
Acidity is a component considered in winemaking as well as culinary arts.
Some people prefer a lower acid level and do not mind the thicker mouthfeel.
Less acidity often comes from too much sun.
Flabby wines can taste sweet when the actually don't have any residual sugar.
hot:
Refers to the distinct flavor of alcohol in a wine.
Wine can have high levels of alcohol, yet still not taste strongly alcoholic.
When a wine has a flavor of rubbing alcohol it is said to be hot.
It is considered a flaw and can be detected at many levels,
from slightly hot, where the rest of the characteristics make up for the strong flavor,
to unmistakably hot, where no matter how much fruit or flavor the wine offers otherwise,
the alcohol flavor is overwhelming.
Pinot noir is known for being hot as a flaw.
oxidation:
is a flaw in wine that causes its flavors to become dull and flat.
Oxidation happens when the wine is exposed to air.
The more air it is exposed to the more the wine deteriorates.
When wine is bottled it often suffers from bottle shock,
a form of oxidation that causes the flavors to close up and
not be available again for weeks and sometimes months.
Oxidation happens when corks dry up in the neck of the bottle.
Allowing a wine to breathe is also oxidation and can improve the flavor
up to a certain point, usually a few hours, but sometimes more.
Sherries are wines that benefit from controlled oxidation.
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