APRIL 2010
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DEAR GROEZINGER CUSTOMER,
Happy April! How are you feeling now? Who would have thought something meant to make us feel better could end up making us feel so much worse? No, not the current health care fracas-although that’s enough to cause severe nausea, seizures, and even brain hemorrhaging-we’re talking about drinkin’ a little too much hooch. As your “doctors”, we’d like to let you know that the quickest and easiest way to get over the Irish flu it is to drink a little more, and to be able to do that you’ll need to have a solid stash of vino in your cellar, fridge, under the bed, on the top shelf of the cabinet, behind that stack of old newspapers in the garage, in the tank of the toilet seat, or where ever it is you store/hide your “medicine”. Just buy a few cases and call us in the morning. Depending on your insurance company, hopefully your rates will fall enough to afford a little extra wine this month and pass the buck on to future generations, because let’s face it; they’re just a bunch of freeloaders at this point anyway. No matter what your co-pay ends up being, we’ve got juice to fit every malady and every budget, and never has taking your medicine tasted so good. We know everyone has questions this month, like “how many lobbyists does it take to screw up a light bulb?”, and “how can I enact the new Senate ruling prohibiting work after two o’clock at my place of business?”, and finally . . . “Does Groezinger’s still have that phenomenal 3 case shipping deal?” You bet your hospital cot we do! $85 ships three cases anywhere in the continental United States!! That’s only $28.33 a box when you ship three of ‘em. $20 per case ships wine to our good neighbors in California, Oregon, and Washington. WE SHIP ANYWHERE-except Utah.  $30-$45 ships one case via UPS to most states and if you live in one of the few states still suffering from Prohibition era restrictions, we’ll bootleg it to you for $60 on one case, $90 for two, and only $85 for three!!! These prices make it CHEAP, EASY, and PAINLESS to get great wine where ever you may be. Go ahead, make our day. 1-800-356-3970!!!
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1.) 2007 SHAFER, “One Point Five”, Cabernet Sauvignon, Stag’s Leap District, Napa Valley-$65.00 93+ R.P.
2.) 2007 ROBERT CRAIG, “Affinity”, Bordeaux Blend, Napa Valley-$50.00 96+ R.P.!! We only got five cases . . .
3.) 2007 DARIOUSH, “Caravan”, Cabernet Sauvignon, Estate, Napa Valley-$35.00 This is what the Sage Cabernet Sauvignon would have tasted like if they hadn’t sold their vineyards to Darioush. This is a real sleeper for ’07.
4.) 2007 KNIGHT’S BRIDGE, Cabernet Sauvignon, To Kalon Vineyard, Oakville, Napa Valley-$100.00 94+W.E.
5.) 2007 KNIGHT’S BRIDGE, Cabernet Sauvignon, Dr. Crane Vineyard, St. Helena, Napa Valley-$100.00 95 W.E.
Ever wish you got in on a “cult” wine while it was still cult? Knight’s Bridge is by far a superior producer of Cabernet from these famed vineyards, and the price is a bargain when compared to KB’s peers (Schrader, Hobbs, etc.). Raw power, structure, depth, balance, focus, elegance, length and purity-all the things that make a truly legendary wine are here.
6.) 2007 PALAZZO, Cabernet Franc, Napa Valley-$70.00 This is, without a doubt, the best Franc in Napa. Limited!
7.) 2006 RAMEY, Claret, Red Table Wine, Napa Valley-$30.00 The best Claret yet from Ramey, this Cab based Bordeaux blend offers up dense, extracted, and ultra-rich spiced red and black fruit flavors. Usually $38! Get a case!
8.) 2007 BED ROCK, Cabernet Sauvignon, Bed Rock Vineyard, Sonoma-$38.00 This is a bone-crusher of a Sonoma Cab, hand sorted, native yeast fermented, and pressed hard for that old-school-the-way-it-should-be-done weight, structure, perfume and flavor. 110 cases produced. This would pair great with brontosaurus ribeye. Yabba Dabba Do it!
9.) 2008 MOSHIN VINEYARDS, Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast-$20.00 It’s not the price that matters, it’s the Moshin.
10.) 2006 LYNMAR, Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, Sonoma-$28.00 Formerly $42! Only a damn fool would pass on this. Here’s some top rate RRV Pinot that you can drink without the wait. And it also cures impotence. Who knew?
11.) 2008 CEP, Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast-$26.00 Declassified fruit from a highly classified super-premium winery.
12.) 2008 CEP, Syrah, Sonoma Coast-$22.00 If we told you where this delicious wine came from, they’d kill us.
13.) 2008 CEP, Rose, Sonoma Coast-$18.00 Spicey & Swanky Hanky Pank wine for your Spring and Summer chuggin’.
14.) 2007 STORYBOOK MOUNTAIN, “Eastern Exposure”, Estate Zinfandel, Calistoga, Napa-$41.00 Dr. Jerry Seps has your script to get ripped on this explosively aromatic and ultra complex mountain grown Zin. Plush and velvety with massive fruit and just a kiss of oak makes this a wet dream without the combined use of Viagra and Ambien.
15.) 2008 LA SIRENA, “Moscato Azul”, Dry Moscat Canelli, Napa Valley-$27.00 Springtime in a bottle.
16.) 2008 BENESSERE, Pinot Grigio, Napa Valley-$22.00 Jasmine honeysuckle white peach grapefruit pineapplicious.
17.) 2006 FORT ROSS, Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast-$20.00 Still the best deal on California Chard available anywhere.

FEATURED RED WINES
2007 CHRONICLE, Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast-$33.00
The epic 2007 vintage produced some of the best Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir grapes in recent history and winemaking legend, Ted Lemmon, has put the “L” in these truly chronic Pinots. If you were intelligent enough to get some of the 2006 Chronicles you’ll understand the greatness of these wines. As for the rest of you dumbfucks, you’ll just have to take a leap of faith (not quite as severe as a suicide bomber) and hook yourself up with a few of these explosive wines. The Chronicle wines will mercilessly kill the rest of your Pinots as they invade, take over, and control your cellar, palate, and every thought. For a modest price you can score some of California’s best Pinot, and you don’t even need a Chronic card from your “doctor”. It’s bright, lively, and complex with strawberry, spice, clove, cherry cola, and mineral wrapped together by a thin layer of French oak. It’s so good that we might just call you and ask you why the hell you waste your time reading this stupid letter without ordering these wines. Either way, we’ll talk to you soon.

2007 CHRONICLE, Pinot Noir, Cerise Vineyard, Anderson Valley–$45.00
Maybe you’re a big hitter, like Manny Ramirez or Tommy Chong. Whether you’re hitting bunts or smoking blunts, this wine is big league chew no matter how you look at it. And it won’t shrink your balls or make you retarded. This extra-strength Pinot gushes with seriously bold flavors of strawberry jam, brambleberry, and black cherry, all framed up in toasted French oak. It’s built to age but can be statutorily consumed if you are a sick and impatient Pinotphile. Give it time to open up when you crack it or you won’t receive the full blessing. It would be like the priest missing your baby’s head with the water or like Jerry Garcia screwing up Franklins Tower. So let the damn thing breath a little. It’s big, intense, concentrated, and perfectly balanced for a Pinot of this weight. Pairs perfect with anything of chronic quality.

2007 PALAZZO, Red Wine, Napa Valley–$51.00
Scott Palazzo and wine consultant Peter Franus have nailed this one outta the park without performance enhancing drugs… as far as we know.  This unique to California blend, representative of a right bank Bordeaux, is composed of 68% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc, and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon. IT DOES NOT DRINK LIKE A MERLOT. This wine has the balls of a Cabernet, the nuances and subtleties of Merlot, and the spice of Cabernet Franc. Palazzo’s wines are in almost every fine dining establishment across the country. Why? Mostly because the wine is freaking awesome, and also because Scott Palazzo must not own a stove and eats out A LOT. How does he stay so thin? Diet pills? Hollywood cocaine? Intense physical conditioning? Atkins? Fear of losing his super hot and way younger girlfriend? He says it’s a mix of foie gras, pork belly, braised short ribs, roasted beets with goat cheese, and Palazzo wine. Those items seem to be redundant in almost all the schwankey restaurants out here. With Palazzo Red, you’re just a piece of bacon and beet away from playing “I’m a Yountville chef” in yer own kitchen. I’m Thomas. I’m Richard. I’m Phillipe. We like beets.

2005 PARADOR, Cabernet Sauvignon, Hossfeld Vineyard, Atlas Peak, Napa Valley–$50.00
What the #@%&$!!?  Remember when this stuff was the best single vineyard Cab you could get for $75? Now it’s fifty bucks with the same incredible quality. Why? Who fucking cares? Just get some. Other winemakers charge up to $150 for wine from this same vineyard while accordion virtuoso, Steve Ventrello, is charging $50. Why? Because he’s hung like a mule and doesn’t need a new accordion, sports car, or Hummer to compensate for a tenny-weenie-peenie and a douchebag personality like the guys at ______ ______ Winery. (fill in the blank, it’s fun) This Cab has beautiful terroir displaying mineralistic earthy nuances rarely found in new world Cabernets. The wine is perfecty balanced, integrated, and built to age if you’re ‘clism* can handle it. Ultra pure and untainted flavors of raspberry, black cherry, olive, wet stone, tobacco leaf, and blackberry will satiate the most hard core Cabernet freaks.  If you haven’t paid attention for the past few years, Atlas Peak has become a superb appellation on par with Howell, Spring, and Diamond Mountain quality.

2008 STRAIGHT LINE, Syrah, Santa Barbara County–$23.00
Wouldn’t it be great if you could get brand name drugs at generic drug prices or if you could get a Porsche for the price of a Volkswagen or a $3500 an hour call girl for the standard $300 an hour? John Grant, our buddy from Turley Wine Cellars, has crafted this high performance and oh-so-sweetly-priced Syrah from Santa Barbara that tastes like forty five bucks. The overly fun flavors of blueberry, Rhone raspberry, and earthy spice are balanced with rock solid structure, a gushing mouthfeel, delicately infused French oak, and fuzzy tannins. The wine is phat and persistent on the palate with a long and explosive finish comparable to Star Wars, the Challenger, Die Hard, Peter North, and the health care plan.

2005 WATERMARK, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley–$30.00
Last call on the 2005 Watermark. It’s the best dang Napa Valley (diamond mtn.) Cabernet you could hope to find for $30.

‘clism: a slang or abbreviation for alcoholism……example—“Geeze, Justin, my ‘clism is really flaring up, we should open another magnum.”

MORE REDS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
2007 HRW (Hendry Ranch Winery), Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley-$23.00     SMART BUY OF THE YEAR!!
Here is one of the best deals on Napa Cabernet Ever! Many wineries these days are making less of their flagship wines and diverting a lot of their top end juice into their more affordable labels. But this is just freakin’ ridiculous!! This tastes like George Hendry accidentally put half of his Block 8 Old Vine Cab into the wrong bottle and just said, “Fuck it, throw the labels on ‘em and sell it.” This wine is going to seriously ruin the party for a lot of wineries trying to hock their $40 & $50 dollar wines. It’s not too hard to figure out. Hendry doesn’t buy any grapes so this is entirely estate grown fruit. The HRW label didn’t exist until the economy took a crap. Soooo. Are you picking up what we’re throwing down? Call us.

2006 TALLULAH, “Les Trios Voix”, Grenache-Syrah-Mourvedre, Shake Ranch, Amador County-$22.00
“Les Trois Voix” should be your new by the glass pour as you start playing Yountville Chef at home. As your personal Sommeliers, we’d like to advise you that Cabernet doesn’t pair particularly well with some our other predictable wine country restaurant menu items like roast chicken, bacon wrapped salmon, duck confit, tomato-mozzarella pizza , or pan fried pork chops. So unless you’re on the Atkins diet and eat nothing but raw beef and live baby sheep you are going to need another option, like this incredibly complex and delicious as well as ridiculously cheap blend of 53% Grenache, 29% Mourvedre, and 18% Syrah from a single vineyard on the rocky slopes of Amador county. Wild blackberry, cherry, and boysenberry fruit mingle with dried herbs, lavender, crushed rock and smoked meat, making this a versatile wine that would pair well with any of the afore mentioned dishes. Most people who have tasted this wine in the shop have walked out with a case, so fly on out here and taste it, or just take our word for it and order a box. Also, if you want to get off the Chardonnay/Sauvignon Blanc turnstile, try the 2008 Tallulah Marsanne Blend White Table Wine for only $22.00!

2008 BEDROCK, BRV Heirloom Vines, Zinfandel Field Blend, Bedrock Vineyard, Sonoma-$32.00
Ever wonder why Fred Flintstone always seemed so happy and why he could only get a license to drive a foot powered vehicle? That’s because he was always plastered off his ass on this wine. These pre-historic vines were originally planted roughly around 30,000 B.C. by one Captain Caveman-Peterson, who later founded the town of Bedrock, now modern day Sonoma. His great to the 263rd power Grandson was Joel Peterson, founder of a tiny winery no one’s ever heard of called RavensWood, and whose son, the very talented Morgan Twain-C.-Peterson, now presides over the production of this wine. Isn’t genealogy fun? Back in Caveman days they didn’t know what red grapes they were planting, but Archeologists now believe this is a blend of 40% Zinfandel, 30% Cairignanne, and 30% Ugh-Ugh (mixed black grapes). Remember when the RavensWood motto was “no wimpy wines” and then after Joel sold the winery the wines got all wimpy? This is where the ass-whippin’ went. Black and bruised in the glass, mega-concentrated black fruit flavors abound, with whiffs of mint, briar, and earth rounding out the flavor profile. This is a young wine that should age until the early Jetson era.

2009 BEDROCK, Ode To Lulu, Rosé of Mourvedre, Bedrock Vineyard, Sonoma County-$18.00
This “Rosé” is actually closer to being a red wine, so we listed it here. Made from dedicated fruit from 120 (!!!) year old Mourvedre vines, this is about as close as you’re going to get to a great Bandol Rosé without a plane ticket to France. This is a truly provocative yet refreshing and spicy wine that pairs with just about anything-especially garlic heavy dishes.

2007 ZACHERLE, Syrah, Chalk Hill, Sonoma-$34.00
Nile Zacherle of David Arthur and Whitney Fisher of Fisher Vineyards are the proud parents of this mind-altering Syrah. The blend here is 92% and 8% Petit Sirah from a rugged and low yielding vineyard where volcanic soils, cold nights, and warm days result in a longer than average hang time for this typically early ripening varietal. The resulting wine is black-garnet, with monsterous amounts of crushed wild berries, baked cherries and plum jam, with suggestions of forest floor, Szechwan peppercorn, molasses, and wild mountain flowers. Think of this as a top-notch Croze-Hermitage from a very ripe vintage. Drink this now or lay it down for a decade. And remember, April Showers always brings May Flowers. April and May are a couple of strippers I met down in S.F. last week, so if you ever meet April, tell her to bring her friend.

FEATURED WHITE WINES IN SHORT FORM
These wineries all have websites. Do your own homework or call us and ask. These are all fantastic whites!!
2008 KNIGHT’S BRIDGE, Estate Chardonnay, “West Block”, Knight’s Valley-$60.00 Uber-Cult Chard. Fantastic!
2009 BEDROCK, Old Vine Heirloom White Wine, Compagni Portis Vineyard, Sonoma-$18.00 White field blend!
2007 DESANTE, Old Vine Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley–$31.00 You know it, you love it, and you might be out.
2007 DESANTE, Old Vine Chardonnay, Napa Valley-$21.00  Neutral oak and high acid-a Napa Valley Chablis.
2008 DESANTE, L’Atelier, (60%Sauvignon Blanc/40%Semillon) Napa Valley-$21.00 Bright and minerally.
2008 TANGENT WINERY, Albariño, Edna Vally-$18.00 Crisp and delicious with a hint of grapefruit and sea breeze.
2008 ALOIS LAGEDER, Moscato Giallo, Vogelmaier Vineyard, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy-$26.00  Xtra-delicious.