Flowercup Wine

Tonight, Friday, December 12, from 4:30-7:00 pm. Join us for some holiday cheer, a tasting of holiday dessert wines, and Cold Spring Aglow!

THE MAGIC OF BUBBLES
Start your holiday celebration with a Rosé Lambrusco ($29.40) from Emilia-Romagna, Italy, pink in the glass dry with a cranberry bite, and fragrant with the perfume of strawberries. If you yearn for a sparkling wine made in the Champagne method but without a Champagne price, we suggest a Loire Valley crémant of chenin blanc spun into liquid gold ($40.00) by a Rumplestiltskin of the vineyard. Or if you are celebrating in an intimate circle of gourmands, treat yourselves to a bottle of rosé Champagne that defies and pushes the boundaries of complexity, structure and elegance and comes in a shockingly beautiful shade of coral in the glass ($88.60). Your guests will be enthralled by your astute epicurean wizardry.

FLOWERCUP’S ENTERTAINMENT TIPS
SCENARIO 1: A huge family gathering with undiscerning wine drinkers.

You’ve been invited to the annual gathering at a relative’s house where the crowd is always big and the wine dreadful. What do you do?

Offer to provide the wine for this year’s feast and pick up a box of passe-tout-grains, a blend of pinot noir and gamay from Burgundy ($45.40 for a three-liter box), and a couple liter bottles of grüner veltliner from Austria ($22.00 for a liter bottle). You’ll get bang for your buck and ensure that you too can enjoy the wine with turkey.

Photo by Kevin Dooley. Used by license.