This week stop by and visit with Mike Libbee from WINDY POINT. We will be featuring their new GEWURZTRAMINER - $13.99 - their first Estate "Gavertz". It is bone dry and easy to drink alone or will be a great food companion. Share your thoughts with Mike as this is a new release.

2006 POINTLESS RED - $13.99 - So newly released that there aren't even tasting notes yet! We are the first to offer this outside of the winery. So, here is your chance to share your thoughts on the wine and help with the tasting notes.

2005 ESTATE SYRAH - $21.99 - This Syrah is also a new release and we have the chance to share our impressions with Mike and maybe help write some of the tasting notes. Brush up on your descriptive words!

2005 EXCLAMATION POINT - $20.99 - Lovely floral notes combine with red cherries and berries on the nose and palate. The balance is faultless: the tannins are easy on the palate. This value wine is easy to drink now" Randy Buckner, Tacoma News-Tribune.

2007 ZINFANDEL - $18.99 - There are nice nuances of plums, baker's chocolate, berries, and a touch of rhubarb. Flavors of lively blackberries sprinkled with white pepper. The jammy fruit lingers on the finish, which is rounded out by manageable tannins.

NV RUBY LEFTSIDE (Syrah Port) - $27.99 - Aromas of blackberry, plum and caramel framed by hints of toasted almonds. Flavors of blue and black berries and nuances of vanilla, followed by a deep chocolate finish. (500 ml bottle)

We will be tasting CASA DO VALLE VINHO VERDE. The Vinhos Verdes are light, fresh, and intended for drinking within a year. At less than 1 bar of CO2 pressure they do not quite qualify as semi-sparkling wines but do have a definite pétillance. The white Vinho Verde is very fresh, due its natural acidity, with fruity and floral aromas, depending on the grape variety. The white wines are lemon- or straw-coloured, around 9-11% alcohol, and are made from local grape varieties Loureiro, Arinto, Trajadura, Avesso and Azal.

pétillant; pétillance [pay-tee-YAWN] - A French wine-tasting term meaning "slightly sparkling," referring to wines with light effervescence. Pétillance is the noun form. The Italian equivalent of pétillant is frizzante; the German is spritzig. - © Copyright Barron's Educational Services, Inc. 1995 based on THE WINE LOVER'S COMPANION, by Ron Herbst and Sharon Tyler Herbst.

VILLA MALACARI ROSSO CONERO - 100% Montepulciano - The grapes, picked when ripe, are vinified under the cap vaults of the 17th century wine cellar and the wines are refined in the small casks and oak barrels in the wine cellar and in the caves excavated in the tufa of Villa Malacari.

Please join us between 4:30 and 6:30 to explore these two wines. If you are working on the 100 Club you will be able to mark a couple more off.

Don't forget that we have Shawn Selander with us this Saturday with her Personalized Wine Rings.

She will put together rings with what ever names you would like. Take care of family and friends and then get some with your favorite TV or Movie characters. How about Morticia, Gomez, Fester and Cousin Itt? Check out the list that Shawn has put together to get ideas.

There are more color choices on beads available this week so you can really create your own wine ring.

Need a new garden flag. We have one that let's folks know that the doctor is in!

"Group Therapy practiced here" (This is better than Lucy and her 5 cent advice) With images of red, white, bubbles and port who can refuse a chance to sit down, relax and have a good time with good friends and good wines? (flag size is 12.5" x 18")

SPIEGLAU BOURDEAUX glasses are back in stock. At $13.99 per stem these are great glasses to have at home. Buy a set of four and save $1.00 per stem.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PRETZELS a fresh batch was just delivered. Another made in Washington product that we feel lucky to offer.