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fine Wine Source Wine Club May 2017 Celler de Capcanes: Capçanes (pronounced Cap-sar-ness) is in DO Montsant, which surrounds the more famous DOQ Priorat. The village is in the south-eastern corner of the Comarca Priorat. Capçanes is (and isn’t) a co-op winery. Capçanes is both the name of a small Montsant village, south-east of the region's main town, Falset, and also the name of its wine co-op. 190 hectares (pre-phylloxera there were 1,000 ha under vine) are controlled by 75 growers and represents about 10% of the DO’s total production. About half is organic, with more vineyards converted to such each year. Yields are as little as 12

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fine Wine Source Wine Club May 2017 Cartlidge & Browne: In the late 1970’s, Tony Cartlidge sat in the cab of a cement mixer on a nuclear plant construction site reading about great California winemakers; shortly thereafter, he got into his 1960 Nash Rambler and headed to Napa. He checked into a Motel 6 and used the Yellow Pages hanging from a payphone in the lobby to cold call wineries looking for employment. He talked his way into a job as a tour guide for a winery and there also began to dabble in winemaking. Tony and his partner, Glen Browne, decided to break all the rules and embark on

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fine Wine Source Wine Club April 2017 Cave des Vignerons de Saumur: A cooperative of winemakers in the Saumur appellation of the Loire Valley set up their operations on the top of the hill in Saint-Cyr-en-Bourg in 1957. The cooperative has 272 members, including 156 growers over 1750 hectares and employs 52 people. The group that created the Les Pouches Rouge includes Yvon, Genevieve and is headed up by Robert and Marcel; two strong willed vintners whose family history is literally as deeply rooted as the ten kilometers of underground “galleries” that were originally quarried for the soft limestone “Tuffeau.” This rock was used to build the magnificent

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fine Wine Source Wine Club April 2017 Peirano Estate Vineyard: In 1879, with only $50 in his pocket, Giacomo Peirano (a former grape farmer in Genoa, Italy) immigrated to San Francisco with hopes of fulfilling the American Dream by striking it rich in the Gold Rush. Things in that arena didn’t “pan out” for Giacomo, so he took what was left of his money and settled in Lodi. At the time, Lodi was full of miners and their camps, but there was a shortage of merchants in the region. Giacomo sensed an opportunity and opened a mercantile store where miners could get their supplies and daily necessities;

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fine Wine Source Wine Club March 2017 Bodegas Ramon Roqueta: The first documents certifying the wine activity of the Roqueta family are from 1199. In 1898 the Roqueta Family set up shop in the northeastern Bages Region of Spain in the town of Manresa, just northwest of Barcelona; however, today the winery and the vineyards are located further to the west in Fonollosa. The estate has 54 hectares of vines and their wines are produced under the ‘Denominació d’Origen’ Catalunya. Today, Bodegas Ramón Roqueta is a great example of a company renovating and adapting to the new times while maintaining the tradition and expertise garnered over the centuries. Their

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fine Wine Source Wine Club March 2017 Pash Wines: Debuting in Michigan in the summer of 2014, Pash Cabernet Sauvignon is produced by Pash Wines of Napa and distributed by US Wines Imports of Ann Arbor. Pash is an Australian slang term for tongue kiss; similarly, the wine is succulent and indulgent like a passionate kiss. They specialize in in Cabernet Sauvignon, carefully sourced and blended from progressive growers across California, but predominantly sourced from Paso Robles and Sonoma County. Unfortunately that is about all we know about this enigmatic producer. About: Since we don’t have much to tell you about this Cabernet and its producer, let it