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 Sweet Colorado Wine Club are:

2007 Riesling, Reeder Mesa Vineyards

This semi-sweet wine is sure to tickle your palate and make you think outside the boxed wine.  Most Rieslings are made fairly sweet, but this one is different.  It’s only very slightly sweet, with more crisp acidity.  It is probably more appropriate with food than some of its sweeter brethren.  Rest assured that if you tend toward the really sweet wines, this one will broaden your horizons just a bit.

Sweet Scarlet, St. Kathryn Cellars

This is a wine of singular popularity.  It is a blend of Merlot and blackberry wine.  It is very dark in color, with a delicious, aromatic nose.  In the mouth, look for velvety smooth tannins and a small portion of real structure for aging.  There is some residual sugar, so look for those rounded, easy corners that go down so smoothly.  This unusual blend goes well with milk chocolate, ice cream of various flavors, and all by its lonesome.

As always, enjoy the wines in good health!

Sincerely,

Glenn & Natalie Foster