Hello Friends and Wine Lovers!

I thank you all for showing up to the Carpe Vinum 1-Year anniversary! That was some good cake, thanks to JaCiva’s, and some wonderful Viognier to go along with it. It’s been a good year, and I feel the next will be even better. . .Starting with this week’s tasting!

This week we’ll be enjoying a tasting with few boundries. Sometimes it’s good to just set out for one simple set of common goals: great wines at great prices, and refreshing as all get-out on these oppressively hot days. So I present to you a plethora of refreshing summery slurpers. (Slurping itself is quite optional, not being the most becoming of beverage drinking styles.)

In traditional Carpe Vinum style, I thought it would be best to do this in the world-traveler kind of way. I chose one wonderfully refreshing white wine from 7 different regions around the world. We could consider them the seven corners of the Earth, were the Earth a heptagon. Being not heptagonal, and actually spherical in shape, the “Corners of the Earth” thing doesn’t merit much, the Earth not harboring corners at all for wines to be from.

Sigh. I think the heat has melted my brain. I think it’s time to drink some of these:

So Friday, July 31st, between 4:30 and 9:00 PM it’s:

Seven Summery Slurpers!
Domaine de Pouy 2003 Cotes du Gasconne Vin de Pays, France
Berganorio 2003 Tenuta La Vellette Orvieto, Italy
Montes 2003 Reserve Fume Blanc, Curico Valley, Chile
Sileni Estate 2002 Semillon, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
Santiago Ruiz 2002 Blanco, Rias Baixas, Spain

The Extra-Special Premium Pours:
Raats 2002 Chenin Blanc, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Sauvignon Republic Cellars 2003 Sauvignon Blanc, Russian River, California

A good deal at $10 for the first 5, and $6 for the Extra 2 Premium Pours.
Super-Special Sweet Pour is $5.
Hope to see you here!
Seize the Wine!

Next week is German and Austrian Reds and Whites!
M