Wine Club Pick-Up Parties

Saturday, February 13 – Woodinville @ Hollywood Schoolhouse!
6-9:00 pm

Saturday, February 20 – Prosser
6-9:00 pm

Wine Pick-Up Weekends

February 12-14 – Woodinville
February 19-21 – Prosser

The Woodinville Party will be held at the Hollywood Schoolhouse is located at 14810 Northeast 145th Street in Woodinville. This your chance to get a sneak peek at the new facilities. Party will be held on main floor.

Did you RSVP? If you are planning to attend the wine club party, please RSVP to reserve your space. You may RSVP until 7 pm. tonight (Thursday). Woodinville Wine Club Party – members may bring TWO guests for a fee of $25.00 each.

Prosser Wine Club Party first two guests free, additional guests $15/pp or $25/per couple. Please RSVP with total of attendees and which location.

We have lots of fun things planned for you! Music, food, and lots of our wonderful wine. Please, no children under the age of 21 and no pets.

For those of you who would like to pick up your new releases at a time other than the “Pick Up Party”, they will be ready for you after the wine release weekends at the two tasting rooms and will be held until April 1st.

Don’t forget to BYOB and get entered into a great drawing. Bring your reusable ANC wine bag and we will fill it up with your release wines.

We can’t keep a secret….

The rumor about ANC moving its Woodinville Tasting Room have been floating around for a awhile. So we thought we would tackle it head on…

It’s true!

Hollywood Schoolhouse

We have been in negotiations with The Hollywood Schoolhouse to lease the lower level for our new larger, tasting room. The Schoolhouse is a beautiful location which will allow ANC more space for Wine Club functions and other events.

The Hollywood Schoolhouse is located at 4810 Northeast 145th Street in Woodinville. The Hollywood Schoolhouse, a historical landmark originally built in 1912 and renovated in 1994. The Hollywood Schoolhouse is conveniently located in picturesque Sammamish River Valley, surrounded by a natural creek and lovingly manicured grounds.

Hollywood Schoolhouse

More details on the move will be coming as Moving Day grows nearer. The current warehouse tasting room will be used for our second label wines as well as events.

We are so excited!

We are excited to announce that ANC has won awards for all the wines entered in the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.

• Gold- 2007 Destiny Ridge
  
• Gold -2007 Quarry Butte
  
• Silver – 2007 Syrah
• Silver – 2008 Sauvignon Blanc
• Silver – 2008 Crawford Viognier
• Silver – 2008 Shepherds Mark
• Silver – 2008 Riesling

On February 20th, Jarrod will be pouring Destiny and Quarry Butte at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition public tasting.
Acclaimed as the largest competition of American wines in the world and San Francisco’s premier tasting experience, the SFCWC Public Tasting is held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion and features award winning wines from across the country.

2009 Reader Survey Wine of the Year

2009 Washington Wine Report Reader Survey Wine of the Year

Alexandria Nicole Mr. Big Petite Syrah Horse Heaven Hills 2007 $42

Alexandria Nicole Cellars was started by Jarrod and Ali Boyle. Jarrod, who was born in Prosser, learned viticulture from Dr. Wade Wolfe (now of Thurston Wolfe Winery) when both were working for Hogue Cellars. After seeing a patch of land in the Horse Heaven Hills, Jarrod decided he wanted to try his hand at his own vineyard. The first vines of what would become Alexandria Nicole’s estate vineyard, Destiny Ridge, were planted in 1998. The original plan for the vineyard was to produce small lot grapes for others to use. However, after seeing the grapes coming from the vineyard, those plans changed. Alexandria Nicole, named for Jarrod’s wife Ali, was founded in 2004.

Petite Sirah is a rare beast in Washington. Called Durif in France and elsewhere, Petite Sirah was originally misidentified as Syrah when it was planted in California. The term ‘petite’ comes from the small size of the grapes. A small number of Washington producers, such as Alexandria Nicole, Animale, Daven Lore, Portteus, Martin Scott Winery, and Thurston Wolfe, produce a varietal bottling. That said, the producers who make it are passionate about the grape.

The 2007 Mr. Big Petite Sirah comes from Destiny Ridge Vineyards. 67 cases were produced.

2008 Viognier was  voted #3

To view a complete listing of the winners.

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The 2009 Wine of the Year is intended for the one Washington wine in 2009 that stood out among those you tasted. First, let me thank all of those readers who sent in nominations and who voted in the preliminary and final rounds. To recap, readers were encouraged to nominate up to five wines. In the preliminary round, everyone could vote on any three of these wines. In the final round, everyone could vote on any one. This year, I picked all wines that received over 10% of the preliminary vote to be in final voting.

1,840 people cast their votes in the final round for the 2009 Wine of the Year (see complete list of final voting below). Of the four finalists, voting between two wines went down to the final hours. Both wines are recognized here.

Here is the link wawinereport

OFFICIALLY OVER !

THANKS FOR CELEBRATING WITH US ON  ~Friday – November 27 Only

WINE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP (if you requested it on your order)

BETWEEN DECEMBER 4TH AND DECEMBER 13TH !
40% off white wine case sales
30% off white wine bottle sales
These steep discounts were a “one day only” holiday special for our amazing  WINE CLUB MEMBERS, as just one more way to celebrate YOU making us the “2009 Best of Western WA Winery” award this fun award with you!

To participate please:

1. Visit our Prosser or Woodinville Tasting Room
2. Order online

Online Orders for those members wishing to have their wine SHIPPED to them will be processed on Monday 11/30 and for those members who wish to have their wine HELD we will have them ready for you to pick-up between 12/4 – 12/13 at the tasting room location that you indicate on your order. You will be charged upon pickup. 

Please bring a printed copy of your receipt/order with you to expedite processing.

In an effort to make sure no one gets left out, we are requesting that club members not call their orders in but rather they order online on our website by adding the Black Friday Discount item (you’ll recognize it when you see it- it’s at the top of the list) to your cart to receive the discount. This will assure that we will be able to process all orders on this busy event weekend.

Although shipping charges will show up on your online order, they will not be processed if you are picking up at tasting room identified on order.

If you do not pick up by December 13, we will ship your order and you will be charged the normal shipping fees.

Discounts will be applied upon verification of wine club status prior to processing your card.

Offer was only good if ordered on Black Friday.

Thank you for all your support and your votes! There were 190,922 insider voters in the 2009  King5 Best of the West Contest.

Can you believe it? We won! We are so excited to win this contest!

In celebration of being voted the 2009 Best of the West Winery, we will be offering free shipping on all full case orders during the month of November. You can call your orders in or order online.

Check out all the winners of the King5 Best of the West.

Pacific Northwest Wine Of The Week -

Alexandria Nicole Cellars 2008 Destiny Ridge Vineyard Shepherd’s Mark

Appellation: Horse Heaven Hills

There doesn’t seem to be a grape that Jarrod Boyle and Jose Luiz Yanez can’t grow on the slopes overlooking Crow Butte Park and the Columbia River. Here’s a blend of Rhone varieties – Roussanne (65%), Marsanne (24%) and Viognier – that’s effusive in its aromatics, leading with gooseberry, Bosc pear, McIntosh apple, llme and toasted nuts. Complexity awaits with tons of acidity from flavors of sweet pineapple, more pear and lemon, then sweet figs on the midpalate. Buckle up for the big finish of lime. Rated “Outstanding” by Wine Press Northwest magazine.

Price: $20.

Cases produced: 1,100.

Food matches: Enjoy this with scallops, grilled prawns, halibut or roasted vegetables.

Oct. 13, 2009   Vol. 10, No. 41

Wine Press Northwest’s Wine of the Week is an independent opinion based on double- and single-blind tastings.

Please come and join us for our wonderful Girl’s Night Out tonight at our Woodinville Tasting Room.

The theme this month is “Simply the Best” and we are looking for the best. We are creating a list of “The Best” to share with our wine club members. The Best place to have drink ANC wine and many more.

1.    Best Mani/Pedi
2.    Best brunch
3.    Best greenhouse
4.    Best neighborhood coffee house
5.    Best wine bar
6.    Best place to get a tan
7.    Best place to buy jeans
8.    Best theatre
9.    Best bottle of ANC wine to celebrate with

Print out the “Best List” and bring it with you tonight to vote at Girl’s Night Out. (download)

Prizes and surprises tonight…bring your list!

Some of you may be getting email failure notices when sending email to our alexandrianicolecellars.com email accounts. It appears our new SPAM filter may be working a little bit too well.  Our technical support from PARSEC will be working to get this resolved as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to have this resolved soon.

Deadline to pick up JUNE SHIPMENTS is August 31.

It can get very lonesome sitting around waiting to be picked up. Even your wine gets a little worried when you don’t show up.

If you have a June Wine Club Shipment waiting for you at the tasting room, please contact ANC to make arrangements to pick it by August 31. All June Wine Club Shipments not picked up by then will be shipped to your address using your credit card on file.