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Rock On, Rock Red!
Our latest addition to the wine lineup is a beautiful, older Merlot called Rock Red Wine. This is a special bottling brought to you by a 
collaboration between Grande River Vineyards and the Colorado Wine Room. It's dedicated to the 2006 Fruita Fat Tire Festival, which has been bringing national attention to the World Class mountain biking we have right here in the Fruita area. Providing infrastructure and looking out for the interests of mountain biking on the Western Slope is COPMOBA, the Colorado Plateau Mountain Biking Association. So we've decided to give COPMOBA a dollar for each bottle of Rock Red sold. The more we sell, the more we give back to the mountain biking community.
The label was designed by our friend and graphic artist Gregory Luck. So we did some careful hunting around for a red wine that was not too heavy, nice and smooth, yet with lots of flavor and texture. The wine is available for sale and seems to be very popular with those who've tasted it. The wine is great, and the label is a perfect match. Our favorite part is the commentary on the sidebar: "Enjoy the local flavor, but don't eat dirt." It's a mountain biking thing. Rock on down to get a taste, then a bottle of the wine that helps support our local bike trails.
Classes and Events
Wine Tasting 101 (GJ Parks & Rec): Do you find wine intriguing? Want to learn more? Join us as we sip and swirl our way to a better understanding of wine and its complexities. We will discuss such wine concepts as dryness, fruitiness, tannins and acidity. Come spend an evening sampling a variety of fine Colorado wines followed by light hors d'oeuvres.
Class is Mar. 25 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Cost is $32 for GJ residents and $40 for non-residents. Click Here to sign up online or call the GJ P & R Dept. at 254-3866.
Wine Tasting 101 (Fruita Parks & Rec): Same as above class, only this time it's offered through our local Parks & Rec department. Class is April 21 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Cost is $32. Click Here to sign up online or call the Fruita P & R Dept. at 858-0360.
Any Singles?
Did you know that Fruita was recently announced to be in the top ten American cities for singles? We saw it first on local TV news, then it was (not on,but "was") the front page of the Grand Junction Free Press. Strangely enough, we've been hosting singles events through a network in the valley called One True Match, headed up by Melinda Leon. So far we've had two singles events, for different age brackets, and there's a third event scheduled for April 15th. This one is for folks from 55 to 70 years of age. So get your taxes done and c'mon down!
Sneak Preview
Friday last saw our first ever Wine Club Member reception. It was our way of saying thanks to our members. Top attraction of the evening was a sneak preview, only after loud clamoring, of our very first wine: Talon Viognier. ("Catchy" name, huh?) Since the wine is still unbottled, we had to take a sample frrom the drain valve of the tank. The winemaker admitted to being rather concerned about the wine since the last tasting revealed a cloudy appearance and notes of an off, earthy flavor, like dirt. To his immense relief, the off flavor and appearance turned out to be in fact bentonite, a kind of 
clay added to the wine several months ago to help clarify and provide some protein stability. To the delight of all, the wine was perfectly wonderful! Lots of fruity bouquet, ample body, rounded mouthfeel. All in all an exemplary Viognier. We concluded that the bentonite had not been sufficiently cleared out of the valve at the winemaker's sampling a month prior. God willing, the wine will be bottled by the end of March, and available for sale by mid-April. Another way to celebrate tax day!
The Wine Club is our way of providing customers with a steady supply of great Colorado Wine. Members receive two bottles of specially selected wine each month (We pick them) at a 10% discount. Members choose which kinds of wines they receive: Dry wines only, sweet wines only, or a mix of sweet and dry. There is no cost to join - just the cost of the wine. Additionally, members get unlimited tasting and 10% off everything in the store. Since we have pick of so many wines in the state, members rarely get the same wine twice.
Cheers!
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