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Happy New Year!

Well, we just got finished with the first annual Red Carpet Top 100 Tasting and I am ready to start planning another off-site tasting event. A Pinot Palooza in May perhaps???
Before I get ahead of myself I have to take a moment to thank our unbelievably loyal Red Carpet Customers, Winery & Distributor Reps and the far-reaching Red Carpet Family for helping make the Top 100 such a hugely successful event. How could you go wrong with 100 great wines available? Good question, but we will always strive to do our best for our customers. We will always listen to our customers and suppliers and are always willing to try something new. If it means less wine, more wine, more food, less food, different food or even a different setting we are here to listen. 
We don’t do brain surgery here and we don’t build rockets. We sell fine wine, beer, spirits and cigars to our loyal customers who enjoy the finer things in life. We will try to keep it simple and do our best to make sure that shopping at Red Carpet is always a pleasure and never a chore. I hope you like what we are doing and I hope you will tell us when you don’t. 
Have Fun, Have Wine and have a wonderful February and Valentines Day. 
Bubbly anyone??

H.K. Hedlund

 


2007 Sextant
‘Wheelehouse’ Zinfandel
Paso Robles
$19.33

“Your favorite everyday Zinfandel” is what the team at Sextant call this fabulous Zin.  This Paso Robles wine is 91% and 9% Petit Sirah. Barrel aged 11 months in Eastern European and New French Oak. Made primarily with the Primotivo clone which gives the wine a rich peppery characteristic combined with lush plum and berry bouquets. Spicy, yet balanced with just the right amount of oak complimenting ripe plum, strawberry and black cherry flavors.

 

2005 Terre Rouge Tete-A-Tete Sierra Foothills $14.55

Tete-A-Tete is a fun easy drinking assemblage of Mediterranean varietals (in 2005- its 56% Syrah, 28% Syrah, 28% Mouvedre & 16 % Grenache) They blend it with current drinkability in mind, for drinking both with or without food. It is put together from younger vines from their forward tasting barrel lots. This wine drinks like better than most Coted-du-Rhone Villages bottlings: sappy, spicy, fabulous flavor and great texture. It is an eminently enjoyable everyday bottle. The 05 has a deep boysenberry fruit suggestions, smoky/meaty/gamey complex flavor components that emphasize the terroir, and a lengthy creamy texture.

 
2005 David Fulton Petit Sirah
$45.00

If this wine was a prizefighter, it would be a heavyweight. Big bold, juicy, jammy. Cherries, blueberries, Oh My!. This wine is just dynamite. It is big but it is supple and smooth with a velvety mouthfeel. As many of you know, David Fulton was wine of the year at Red Carpet in 2002 and it has been a love affair that has stood the test of time. Owners Dink and Fulton Mather are two of the nicest people you would want to meet and they are no shrinking violets either. Just like their wine.

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