Dear Colorado Wine Club Member,

Spring time in the Rockies . . . it’s a wonderful time of year!  The birds are setting up to raise their families, the sun is lingering a bit longer, seemingly more so with the onset of daylight savings, and the bees are starting to look for flowers.  The northern hemisphere is awakening!  Here comes another growing season, and here comes another crop of grapes here on the western slope.  Word on the street is that the grapes did very well this winter, so far.  Keep your fingers crossed though – it’s still early.

Enclosed are your Wine Club bottles.  This month’s wines for the Dry Colorado Wine Club are:

2004 Meritage White, Grande River Vineyards

This is a high quality Bordeaux blend of unusual poise.  Look for a clean, fresh nose, light color with a hint of green, fine flavor and texture in the mouth.  You may detect a hint of the oak it was aged in for a good length of time.  Look also for a crisp finish that doesn’t linger too long.  Nice work, GRV!  Try this wine with fish, chicken and pork with milder flavors – nothing so heavy that the wine drowns.

2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Reeder Mesa Vineyards

This small winery seems to continually produces nice wines.  This one is no exception.  Though it’s a little tight yet, it shows great promise.  Look for great color, a fruity, rounded nose, a little tart bite in the mouth, followed by a long, sweet finish of medium breadth.  Try this wine with a boneless beefsteak, with fresh, northern hemisphere asparagus, which is available and of high quality.  Round the meal off with a side of mashed potatoes with all the fixin’s.  If you like super smooth wines, give this one a year or two of aging, or a good half hour of breathing after opening and pouring into the glass.

As always, enjoy the wines in good health!

Sincerely,

Glenn & Natalie Foster