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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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Esperanza 2006 Rueda, Spain
A rich, exotic white.
The mouth fills with notes of peaches, grapefruit, and pears.
The mid-palate offers a touch of anise, creamy yeast,
fresh cardamom bread, and lemon and tangerine zest.
The finish is concentrated, with floral and honey'ed flavors.
93 points -- tasted 4/10/2008 -BF $12
Daveco Liquors, El Je Beverage, Grape Leaf,
Jewett Drug Inc,
Lowry Liquor,
Philnor Liquor,
and Applejack carry this wine.
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Omaka Springs Estate 2005 Falvey's Chardonnay, Marlborough, New Zealand
Lovely, with creamy tones and ground spice nuances of nutmeg and allspice.
The mid-palate fills with flavors of papaya, lime and tangerine zest,
and a touch of fresh fennel.
Rich mouthfeel, yet smooth, its acidity is balanced against its exotic flavors.
The Stelvin closure is a plus.
92 points -- tasted 4/10/2008 -BF $13
Hampden Warehouse Liquor Mart and Mondo Vino
carry this wine.
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Cruz de Piedra 2007 Rose, Calatayud, Spain
We Americans like our roses with lots of umph.
Cruz de Piedra delivers with this extroverted rose of garnacha.
This rose is concentrated, with a mineral edge.
It fills the mouth with flavors of strawberries and cranberries.
The mouthwatering acidity offers notes of lime zest and spice.
It is savory, yet smooth.
Seventy percent of the juice comes from fifty year old vines.
Perfect for salads and pink food, like shrimp and ham.
94 points -- tasted 4/10/2008 -BF $10
Lido Wine Merchants,
Capital Heights Pharmacy, Corks, Mile High Wine & Spirits,
carries this wine.
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Bridgeview 2006 Pinot Noir, Oregon
The nose offers a hints of star anise and roasted spices.
On the palate flavors of cola, tar, leather, and cherries fill the mouth.
The mid-palate and finish are smoky and offer a slight mineral tone.
Balanced acidity and soft tannins make this a
smooth and interesting pinot noir.
93 points -- tasted 4/10/2008 -BF $20
KaCee's Wine & Spirits and Davidsons
carry this wine.
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Santa Ema 2003 Merlot, Maipo Valley, Chile
A merlot with backbone.
Rich, with flavors of cassis, vanilla, cherry liqueur,
and red raspberries.
The mid-palate offers roasted coffee tones.
Nuances of sassafras on the finish.
Soft polished tannins add a sultry mouthfeel.
This wine drinks well for a few nights under a blanket of gas.
94 points -- tasted 4/10/2008 -BF $12
KaCee's Wine & Spirits, Lido Wine Merchants, Wilburs Total Beverage,
Bonnie Brae Liquor Mart,
and Total Beverage Thornton carry this wine.
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Montes Alpha 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Apalta Vineyard, Colchagua, Chile
This wine is dense and interesting.
It is 100% cabernet sauvignon.
Flavors of vanilla, milk chocolate, black cherry, cassis, leather, and cigarbox
marry together on the tongue.
The mid-palate offers hints of coffee bean.
Allow this one a little time to breathe; it blooms like a rose.
93 points -- tasted 4/10/2008 -BF $16
Davidsons, Boulder Liquor Mart, The Vineyard, Argonaut, Colorado Liquor Mart, Cost Plus,
Wilburs Total Beverage,
and Grape Expectations carry this wine.
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Norton 2004 Privada, Mendoza, Argentina
An elegant wine with lots of panache.
A blend of 50% malbec, 30% cabernet sauvignon, and 20% merlot.
Flavors of raspberry, strawberry, milk chocolate, cassis, and licorice fill the mouth.
The mid-palate offers charred vanilla bean,
minerally pencil lead tones, and perfumy hints of lavender.
Great acidity adds a different facet to the complexity.
95 points -- tasted 4/10/2008 -BF $20
Stroh Ranch, Davidsons, Apple Jack,
Golden Town Liquor, Wilburs Total Beverage, and Dillon Ridge Liquor carry this wine.
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Clayhouse 2005 Adobe Red, Central Coast, California
A blend of 44% zinfandel, 29% syrah, 19% petite sirah, and 8% cabernet sauvignon.
Fantastic as soon as it is open.
Big berry explosion in your mouth!
Jammy, with flavors of blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, plum,
and pomegranate.
The mid-palate offers vanilla, clove, roasted coffee bean, and cigarbox nuances.
Sultry tannins coat the mouth on the finish,
offering a complement to the extracted, complex, integrated flavors.
Big body from the 15% alcohol, with a touch of heat.
94 points -- tasted -BF $16
Reserve List Eagle Bend, Lido Wine Merchants, Total Beverage in Thornton,
Costco Liquors in Arvada, Bonnie Brae Liquor Mart,
and County Line Liquors carry this wine.
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Mendocino Brewing Blue Heron Pale Ale, Ukiah, California
Bright yellow color with slight cloudiness.
The medium head dissipates quickly.
Flavors of lemon and tangerine marry with nuances of pine needles, almonds, chamomile,
slight hints of vanilla, and fresh cut hay.
Bitter hops flavor on the finish is mild, but unmistakable.
The bitterness offers a touch of salty mineral on the finish.
93 points -- tasted 4/20/2008 -BF $9 a six pack
Total Beverage Thornton and Wilburs Total Beverage, and Bonnie Brae Liquor Mart
carry this beer.
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Colorado Chocolate Festival - Wine Tastings and Pairings!
Event Preview Gala - Friday May 9th, 7-10 pm: $10
Friday night enjoy the ultimate date night or ladies night out! Wine tastings, live music, special events,
giveaways, VIPs, and - did we mention - first dibs on the chocolate?
30,000 squqre feet of chocolate heaven, chocolate candy,
chocolate fountains, cakes, cookies, truffles, fudge, brownies, toffees, coffees and so much more!
Everything chocolate will be here!
Over 100 Vendors from across the US - tastings, wine vendors, speakers,
samples, cooking demos, wine tastings, contests, food and drink, chocolate wedding cake bake-off,
movie premiere of "Death, Taxes . . . and Chocolate," Mother's Day gift market, chocolate spa, and more.
Special Guest: Julie Pech, The Chocolate Therapist, will be signing her latest book.
Buy Tickets online now at coloradochocolatefestival.eventbrite.com
Date: May 09, 2008 (Friday) - May 10, 2008 (Saturday)
Friday: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
$10 Friday Night Preview Gala
$5 Saturday 10am - 6pm.
Denver Merchandise Mart
451 East 58th Avenue - Denver, CO 80216
Free parking
Live Broadcast Saturday with KHOW's Gabby Gourmet!
This event is also a benefit for PBS and a portion of each ticket sale goes to Rocky Mountain PBS!
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Verdejo: (ver-day-ho)
Rueda: (Roo-ay-da)
The verdejo grape has been grown in Spain for over a thousand years. Its ancient history plays out in Rueda, in the province of Castile-Leon. Castile-Leon's landscape is dotted with ancient stone castles, monuments of battles that would eventually unify Spain. The Moors occupied much of what we call modern-day Spain for several centuries. In the tenth century the people of Castile-Leon drove the Moors south to the Straights of Gibraltar. As the Moors retreated they scorched the earth with fire and left the land of Castile-Leon uninhabitable. The damaged province sat abandoned and barren for over one hundred years.
When the people of Castile-Leon finally moved back to their land they found the native verdejo grape. Unfortunately, the techniques for making wine from this grape had been forgotten. Verdejo oxidizes quickly, imparting flavors of the dried fruit and pressed flowers, quickly causing the wine to taste flat and stale. It was because of this oxidation that verdejo was deemed a vegetable, delicious when picked from the vine, but unsuitable for wine.
While Spain was unifying, the Moors still held the Straights of Gibraltar and Jerez, the area where Sherry is made. Sherry had been a highly regarded wine for centuries, but the Moors halted its production. Looking for ways to bolster its economy, the new assembly of Spain looked to the native white grape of Rueda, verdejo, as the natural choice for making Sherry-like wines. Solera wines made from verdejo were received favorably by the wine-drinking world, which put Rueda back on the map as a wine region.
Rueda's popularity remained with the sherry drinkers for hundreds of years, even after Spain had regained Jerez in the fifteenth century. Rueda profited on Sherry's reputation until the phylloxera epidemic took hold in the early twentieth century. After the phylloxera aphid destroyed Rueda's vineyards, Jerez took back the Sherry market.
While its history is fascinating, verdejo has never tasted better than it does today. Modern Rueda creates crisp, floral, citrus-like white wines. To keep verdejo's flavor fresh, a layer of inert gas is poured over the grapes as they are picked and again as they are crushed. This contemporary technique is a rebirth to an ancient grape. Verdejo was trendy as a fortified wine for hundreds of years, only to lose its popularity to an aphid, but technology gave verdejo a fresh face and a new page for the Spanish wine history books.
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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