By Admin, BuyLocalBG.com, BuyLocalBg@gmail.com/
Thursday, March 1st, 2012 7:00 AM CST
Bowling Green’s largest wine selection can be found at Greenwood Spirits on Scottsville road. They also carry the best micro brew selection in town. Today’s beer tasting will be Ohio’s Hoppin’ Frog Brewery. There will be three selections from Hoppin Frog.
The wine tastings this week will be on Friday and Saturday with the list below:
Friday featuring
Montes Alpha Cabernet
LaPostolle Merlot
Frontera Chardonnay
New Age White
Saturday featuring
Yard Dog Red
Yard Dog White
Black Swan Chardonnay
Black Swan Cabernet-Merlot
New items at Greenwood Spirits Shop is the Trilogy. A California blended red wine from Sonoma that retails for $49.99.
93 points from Robert Parker: “The 2007 Trilogy might be called a Napa version of St.-Emilion blended with a Margaux. A harmonious blend of 74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot, it offers undeniable elegance as well as lovely black currant and black cherry notes intermixed with hints of cocoa, roasted herbs, cedar, and licorice. This textured, lush, medium to full-bodied, beautifully constructed 2007 can be drunk now or cellared for 15-20 years.” (12/09) 91 points Wine Enthusiast: “Made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot, this is a good, smooth wine that shows its Napa origins in the ripeness of fruit and classy tannins. Floods the mouth with blackberries and oak. There’s a certain sharpness that cuts through the richness and lasts through the finish, which may limit ageability, so drink soon.” (06/10) 91 points Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar: “Bright ruby-red. Complex nose melds cassis, blackberry, bitter chocolate, cedar, menthol and licorice, with tobacco, loam and leathery nuances emerging with air. Sweet, pliant and expressive, with a bit more stuffing to buffer its firm acidity than the basic Napa Valley cabernet. Finishes nicely broad, with a fine dusting of sweet tannins and subtle leather and game notes. Based on this wine and the 2006 Trilogy, as well as the winery’s other very successful ’07 cabernets, the 2007 vintage marks a breakthrough to higher quality here.”
Check out their facebook page. We look forward to working with ‘Greenwood Spirits Shoppe,’ a locally owned businesses, and hope you will consider them instead of going to those stores owned by out of town retailers.
