Special Valentine’s Day “ Reds Only” 4 Pack

This is a romantic red assemblage consisting of 2 bottles of the 2008 La Petite Soeur, our proprietary red blend handcrafted by Heidi Barrett; as well as 2 bottles of the 2009 King Richard’s Reserve Pinot Noir created by Associate Winemaker Tony Arcudi.

These winery exclusive wines are limited in quantity and normally available to allocation members only.
A fabulous collection to enjoy with your loved one!

Last day to order is February 8th, 2012 to receive by February 14th, 2012
Before shipping and applicable taxes $400.00

For purchases or inquiries please contact Sarah McCarthy at :
707-968-9229×106 or sarah@fantesca.com

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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! Delight your sweetheart with a delicious gift of wine and chocolate from St. Francis Winery. Choose from our selection of gorgeous hand-painted etched bottles, port-filled chocolates and more…

Order soon to ensure delivery before Valentine’s Day — check our Shipping Schedule.

Order Online or call one of our friendly wine experts at (800) 650-5437.

And remember, a large selection of St. Francis Sonoma County wine is available in our online Wine Shop as well. Or give us a call and we’ll help to create the perfect gift for your Valentine!

Elegant Hand-Painted Etched Bottles
$42, wine club price $31.50

These bottles are beautifully etched and hand-painted for the perfect finishing touch to a romantic table set for two.

Your choice:

Two Hearts "Be My Valentine"
2008 Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma County
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Cupid "Happy Valentine’s Day"
2008 Old Vines Zinfandel, Sonoma County
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Big Heart "Be Mine"
2008 Old Vines Zinfandel, Sonoma County
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Don’t forget chocolate!
Add a box of our delicious Port-Filled Chocolates.

Port & Chocolates
$49, wine club price $39.20

• 1 bottle 2009 Sonoma County Port (750ml)
• 1 box of St. Francis Port-Filled Chocolates

A chocolate lovers’ dream! Tempt their sweet tooth with these delicious Port-filled chocolates, presented in a handsome red gift box alongside our luscious 2009 Sonoma County Port.

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Port-Filled Chocolates
$9.95, wine club price $7.96

• 1 box of St. Francis Port-Filled Chocolates

What Valentine’s gift would be complete without chocolate? These mouthwatering treats are overflowing with our very own seductive St. Francis Port.

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Planning to be in Wine Country for Valentine’s Day?
Make it memorable with a very special Winery Dinner at St. Francis! Celebrate with great wine and food as Executive Chef David Bush creates an exquisite menu for you and your special someone. Share an intimate candlelit experience, with each tantalizing course expertly paired with our premium Artisan Series wines. There’s no place quite as romantic as the rolling vineyard-covered hillsides of Sonoma Valley.

**Reservations Required**

DATE: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
TIME: 6:30 PM
PRICE: $125.00 Public, $99.00 Wine Club Members (+tax & gratuity)
PHONE: 888-675-WINE
EMAIL: info@stfranciswinery.com

Shipping

We can ship wine to the following states: AK, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, OR, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
*Certain wines are not available in all states. Please call for details: (800) 650-5437

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Shipping Schedule

For delivery by 2/13
• UPS/Fed Ex Ground: Order by 5:00 pm (PST) 2/6/12
• Fed Ex Two Day: Order by 5:00 pm (PST) 2/8/12
• Fed Ex Overnight: Order by 5:00 pm (PST) 2/9/12

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Guess what? The "All You Need is Love" packs are back, just in time for Valentine’s Day!
Follow your Enchanted Path to a Carnival of Love for our special Valentine’s price of $180 (RRP $195). Your matched pair of 2010 Love wines will come in the beautifully designed All You Need Is Love Box with a gift card and will be shipped to your Valentine on the 8th or 9th of February.

2day shipping is included on all orders placed by the 9th of February. (Valid for States we are allowed to ship to).

Sending big Valentine’s Day hugs your way from McLaren Vale!
Cheers,

Please feel free to contact us anytime – we always love hearing from you.
By Phone: Toll Free 888 MDSHIRAZ (888.637.4472) or
By Email: helpinghand@mollydookerwines.com
Join us on

Wine Event  April 16, 2012

• Oregon Wine Flight To New York – Evening Grand Tasting
• 6:30pm

Tickets

• General Admission$75.00

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The Willamette Valley Returns to The Big Apple in 2012
Oregon Wineries Revisit Manhattan After Making A Big Splash In 2011

Thanks to a highly successful first run last February, the Willamette Valley Wineries Association (WVWA) is again taking its celebrated Pinot Noir to New York City. 50 Oregon wineries will converge on Manhattan’s vibrant City Winery in Soho April 16th, pouring Pinot Noir and other Willamette Valley varietals.
“We are very excited to be headed back to New York,” said Sue Horstmann, Executive Director of the WVWA. “We have some new faces and a new vintage to share with a city that clearly appreciates and is highly enthusiastic for Oregon Pinot Noir.”
Last year, the sold-out event attracted 350 tasters. This year, the focus will be the 2009 vintage, acclaimed for its intriguing and lush elegance. Many winemakers and principals will be on hand to articulate the intricacies of the wine and the vintage. This offers tasters the chance to get to know the people behind the world-class wines. Many of the wineries that attended last year will return, plus a group of newcomers.
The Oregon wine industry continues to flourish, reaching nearly the three billion dollar mark in 2010. The Willamette Valley is home to some of the state’s oldest and most lauded wineries in addition to new producers with some exciting wines to share. Along with their esteemed Pinot noir, Willamette Valley wineries produce many other wines that thrive in Oregon’s cool climate. Many of these wines are handcrafted in small batches, and the Oregon Wine Flight To NYC offers a rare opportunity for New Yorkers to sample such wines and meet the personalities who make them.
“It will be especially enjoyable to showcase new wines,” continued Horstmann. “While the flavors change every vintage, the level of quality does not. These producers have set a standard that wine enthusiasts coast-to-coast have grown to expect.”

www.willamettewines.com

Our 5th Year at the NY Wine Expo!

Fulcrum is excited to be pouring our 2009 Pinots at the New York Wine Expo event in NYC, and we will have some Members-Only sneak peeks at the 2010s. It is a great event held at Jacob Javits Center that gives you the opportunity to sample excellent wines from around the world. We have come to look forward to this event every year to see some of our friends and share our wines.

The Details

Friday March 2nd, 6pm-10pm

Saturday March 3rd, 2pm-6pm

Jacob Javits Convention Center, NYC

Click here to get more information and order tickets.

As always you can go to our website to see all of our upcoming events or Fan us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for up to the minute information on everything Fulcrum.

Thanks and we hope to see you there!

David and Christinna

Fulcrum Wines
Napa, CA
tel: 732-610-9602
www.fulcrumwines.com

98-100RP/99WS/97-100IWC- Possibly The Perfect Wine: 2009 Chateau Latour Pre-Sale

Before we get to today’s offer on a true, undoubted legend in the making…
This is a pre-sale offer. We are readily able to access both 6 pack and 12 pack OWC formats for this wine. However, there are also a very limited amount of OWC three packs available. When ordering quantities of 3, 6, 12 bottles or more, please specify your request for the packaging of the wine and we will do our best to accommodate all requests. Any purchaser of the 2009 Chateau Latour will be contacted by a Wine Library representative to handle any requests and/or specifics. Now to the excitable part:
2009 vintage in Bordeaux has nearly caused hysteria across the wine world. Monstrous press, record breaking prices, and unparalleled demand have all be part of this amazing campaign. The 2009 Chateau Latour will be a wine heralded for decades and looks like centuries as well. The high praise for the wine came from just about everyone with a pulse in reviewing wine:

2009 Chateau Latour-
Robert Parker: 98-100 Points

Wine Spectator: 99 Points (James Molesworth)
International Wine Cellar: 97-100 Points (Ian D’agata)
Jamessuckling.com: 98-99 Points (James Suckling)

Don’t miss out on a chance to own a piece of history! This may turn out to be one of the greatest wines ever made and will take it’s place among Bordeaux’s greats.

Again, this is a pre-sale offer. Wine is expected to arrive May, 2012.

You can place your orders via the website, or by calling the order department at (888) 980-9463, ext. 2.

2009 – CHATEAU LATOUR
https://winelibrary.com/products/64511-09-chateau-latour

Product Code: 64511

Suggested Price: $2499.99

Price: $1499.99

98-100 Points Robert Parker

"The 2009 Latour has off the charts concentration in addition to the highest level of tannin ever measured at the estate. The final blend was somewhat unusual in that it consists of 91.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8.7% Merlot, and clocked in at 13.7% alcohol (even higher than the 2003). Possibly a 100-year wine, it boasts an inky/black/purple color as well as an extraordinary perfume of super-intense blue and black fruits, graphite, and a liqueur of rocks-like minerality. Enormously full-bodied yet at the same time incredibly fresh, vibrant, and precise, it coats the mouth, and builds incrementally to skyscraper-like texture, and a whopping finish that lasts over a minute. This remarkable wine reveals a certain accessibility already, yet one senses that it will be even richer, more nuanced, and fuller by the time it is bottled in mid-2011. A monumental wine from a monumental vintage in the Medoc, this is our children’s children’s children’s elixir."

99 Points Wine Spectator

"This seems to come full circle, with a blazing iron note and mouthwatering acidity up front leading to intense, vibrant cassis, blackberry and cherry skin flavors that course along, followed by the same vivacious minerality that started things off. The tobacco, ganache and espresso notes seem almost superfluous right now, but they’ll join the fray in due time. The question is, can you wait long enough? Best from 2020 through 2040. 9,580 cases made."

97-100 Points Ian Dagata

"Purple ruby. Flamboyant aromas of red cherry, cassis, graphite and cedar soar from the glass. Then very dense, supple and smooth, with a noble texture and great breadth to its red cherry, blackcurrant, spicy plum, ink and cedar flavors. Finishes with exceptionally velvety tannins and a very ripe, almost perfumed quality to the red and black fruit flavors. A large-scaled and clearly great wine that calls to mind a combination of the 1982 and 2005 Latours. That said, while this wine shares some of the 2009 Mouton’s voluptuous perfume, it lacks the extraordinary finesse of either the 2009 Lafite or Margaux, but is much more powerful than both of those wines. Millionaires will have a lot of fun over the years comparing the first growths of 2009 and arguing over which is the best."

98-99 Points James Suckling

"This reminds me of twins that have a very different character. One is very flamboyant with ripe and wild fruit, and a dense and powerful finish. The other is reserved and serious, with an intense tannin structure. Combined they are a complex whole that is mind bending. Great complexity. I would like to spend hours contemplating this. Barrel sample."

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Vintage Fall Reviews

"As a group, the wines offer pure, complex, fruit- and floral-driven aromatics. The deep, rich and layered fruit flavors are elegant, offering the kind of delicacy and finesse you hope for with Pinot." – James Laube

Rosella’s
94
Durell
94
Graham’
93
Garys’
92

Keefer
Ranch
91
Russian
River Valley
91
Santa Lucia Highlands
91
Sta.
Rita Hills
88

Before we get to the reviews, we wanted to take this opportunity to remind you that these wines are still available for purchase through our on-line ordering system. Please don’t be confused and think that these Pinots are a new release. These are the same wines we released in the Fall.

2010 Graham Family Vineyard Pinot Noir – Score: 93

Green Valley of Russian River Valley

Full-bodied, fleshy and concentrated, offering a mix of dark berry flavors, with blueberry, wild berry, plum and spice, that lead to a long, pure, richly flavored aftertaste. Drink now through 2020. 175 cases made. – J.L.

2010 Keefer Ranch Vineyard Pinot Noir – Score: 91

Green Valley of Russian River Valley

Fresh and snappy, with a complex mix of floral, mineral, blackberry and wild berry flavors that are pure and elegant, ending with fine-grained tannins. Drink now through 2018. 450 cases made. – J.L.

2010 Durell Vineyard Pinot Noir – Score: 94

Sonoma Coast

Impressive for its rich, expansive, deep layers of ripe fruit, offering portals into huckleberry, wild berry and boysenberry character, supported and framed by fresh acidity and minerally tannins, with a long, engaging finish. Drink now through 2021. 150 cases made. – J.L.

2010 Rosella’s Vineyard Pinot Noir – Score: 94

Santa Lucia Highlands

Combines dense, fresh earth, snappy wild berry, underbrush and mineral notes, fanning out and gaining depth and richness. Ends with a touch of black licorice and spice. Drink now through 2020. 325 cases made. – J.L.

2010 Garys’ Vineyard Pinot Noir – Score: 92

Santa Lucia Highlands

Starts with a burst of wild berry raciness, then tames down. Clean, pure, vibrant and vivacious, with the wild berry and raspberry fruit core tight and well-focused. Drink now through 2019. 300 cases made. – J.L.

2010 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir – Score: 91

Russian River Valley

Light toasty oak gives way to a richer array of dark berry flavors, built around blueberry, wild berry, floral and lavender scents. Turns elegant, spicy, peppery and delicate on the finish. Drink now through 2020. 300 cases made. – J.L.

2010 Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir – Score: 91

Santa Lucia Highlands

Offers a complex range of red fruits, with cherry and raspberry at the core. Well-structured, intense and snappy, ending with a mix of mint, spice and lavender. Drink now through 2016. 300 cases made. – J.L.

2010 Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir – Score: 88

Sta. Rita Hills

Ripe, complex and generous plum, raspberry and black cherry flavors are front and center, pure and persistent, holding their focus and depth. Drink now through 2016. 300 cases made. – J.L.

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Michael and David Phillips-Earthquake-Zinfandel-Lodi-California-2008-$24.99-A big nose of dark fruit and spice, dark purple in color.  Big fruit with blackberry, black cherry, spices, if you love a big wine then this is for you, was very good.                           NR                      CR-91                   Good with pasta, steak, chicken.

Hunt Family Cellars-Cab 9-Cabernet Sauvignon-Paso Robles-California-2004-$29.99-A nose of earthy dark fruit, dark purple in color. A smooth, full bodied Cab, blackberry, cassis, with some vegetal and earth qualities, still needs a good decant, solid wine, good at this price.                          NR                        CR-89                Good with steak, chicken, pasta.

Neyers Vineyards-Cuvee D’Honneur-Syrah-Sonoma Coast-California-2006-$23.33-A nose of dark fruit and spice, dark black purple in color.   A full bodied, and smooth Syrah with blackberry, cassis, dark chocolate and spice with a elegant long finish, really good stuff.                      RP-91                  WS-88                  CR-92                Good with meats, chicken, pasta.

Keesha Vineyards-Petite Sirah-Lodi-California-2008-$9.99-A big nose of dark fruit and cassis, purple black in color. A big full bodied, like syrup, blackberry, smooth, cassis, dark chocolate, a wine that has the body and taste of a $40 bottle, the best QPR wine of 2010.                     NR                CR-90                Good with steak, chicken, pasta.

Hunt Family Cellars-Bon Vivant-Cabernet Sauvignon-Destiny Vineyards-Derek Heights Section-Paso Robles-California-2003-$19.99-A nose of dark cherry and spice, dark amber in color. A smooth, dry, full bodied Cab, with sweet cherries, cassis, dark chocolate and spiced oak finish, good but too much cherry for me.                    WE-90                 CR-89                  Good with ribs, chicken, pasta.

Soos Creek Wine Cellars-Cabernet Sauvignon-Cabernet Franc-Columbia Valley-Washington State-2006-$17.77-A nose of dark fruit and smoke, dark amber in color. Blackberry, cassis, currants and spice, layers of flavors, full bodied, very good, sadly my last bottle.                    RP-91                   WE-92                 CR-91                    Good with steak, chicken, pasta.