This month’s theme: “Wines that go BOOM” was presented by David Falchek

The Meadowlands Chapter would like to extend a special thanks to David for his wonderfully insightful presentation and in answering everyone’s questions on these volcanic soil grown wines. The wines were a fantastic selection, each with a notable quality that stood out and enjoyed by all members and visiting guest.

Wines Presented on this evening:
Santi Soave Classico DOC Montefalco - Italian ***
Tasca d'Almerita Grillo Cavallo - Italian
2009 Domini de La Cartoiza "Clos Galena" Priorat, Spain
2014 Brassfield Estates "Eruption" Lake County. California ***
2015 Wilridge Nebbiolo Nachez Heights Washington.
2014 TerraNoble Gran Reserva Carmenere - Chile ***
                                                                       *** group favorites
+ The following sparkling wines
NV - Jaume Serra Cristalino Cava Brut Rose - Spain
NV - Paul Cheneau Lady of Spain Cava Brut - Spain
                                                                                    

News and Updates:    Next meeting June 16th 

·         2016 National Wine Tasting Project: We have accumulated all of the required Rhone style wines needed for this year’s AWS National Tasting Project.   For those who expressed interest, we will have this event at “Make Wine With Us”   Here are the available dates:  June 10^th, June 22^nd or July 6^th.     We will reach out to you to make sure we get most # of participants.  Purpose is for each chapter to hold tastings to sample the wines and then see how our ratings compare to other AWS chapters. 

a.       We will participate in a selection containing eight wines.

b.      This will be a BLIND Tasting, so there we can’t share personal views until after the tasting is completed.  We will use our AWS scoring sheet to capture data.   

c.       This is not a standard AWS wine tasting meeting, it’s held to specifically partake in AWS 2016 National Tasting Project.   

d.      Rhone Ranger wines are all US vineyards.  

e.      Seat are limited to 15 people.   cost is $25 per person.  

·         Long Island Winery Trip:  The New York Kylix group is planning on winery trip to Long Island.  It would be great to do a combined Kylix/Meadowlands outing.  The tentative date is currently set for Saturday June 11^th.  PLEASE Check the Blog page for updates and send us an email if you’re interested, limited seating event.  (Will be updated shortly with more details ) 

·         Make Wine With Us has a Chilean blend of "Cabernet & Carmenere" Barrel available, for those who are interested in this wildly popular blend, which is ready for bottling now.   Please contact John or Diann at 201-876-WINE (9463)

·         May 21 is National Chardonnay Day – Looks for deals at your local wine stores, or visit Stew Lenard's Clifton Store. 

·         May 24^th is the Judgement of Paris Anniversary - Stag's Leap Wine Cellars (SLV)  for Cabernet Sauvignon and Chateau Montelena.   Chateau Montelena's Chardonnay was in competition with nine other wines from France and California under blind tasting and was awarded top scores.  The 2008 film Bottle Shock loosely covers this event in typical Hollywood fashion drama.

·         -    Welcome to new members:  Dave

Next meeting is June 16th, Obscure Varietals for the Adventurous Palate: Monika Elling

Distinct Thanks: John and Diann of Make Wine with Us, Danny Klein AWS RVP.
Art and Phil for pouring, Denise for food setup and John, Griselle, Elena and all members for your participation and support.

Cheers,

 Meadowlands Chapter

American Wine Society.org

Next AWS meeting is Thursday May 19th.  
Wines that go BOOM! Presented by David Falchek

Send email to WineClub201@gmail.com so that we may save you a seat.
Event Address: Make Wine With Us  21 Curie Ave. Wallington, NJ   07057

No soil is simultaneously cooler -- and hotter -- than volcanic soil. Let’s see what makes these soils so great with a sampling of various wines from the world’s best- known volcanic soils.   Visit us on May 19th and be blown away by these unique wines. David Falchek will be our special guest presenting "Wines That Go BOOM!

David writes a weekly wine column for the Times Shamrock newspapers and is on the national board of directors of the American Wine Society.

We’ll try a Sicilian white wine produced in the shadow of Mt. Etna; Soave Classico from the Monteforte, the heart of the Soave region; a red blend from Priorat—the most exciting red wine region in Spain; a nebbiolo from (of all places) Washington, grown on an ancient lava flow in Naches Heights AVA; and a wine called Eruption from Lake County, California, home to an extinct volcano where obsidian stones are found in the vineyards. We'll touch upon the notion of terroir, plate tectonics, and the Italian white wine revolution.

April meeting update

For Earth day, flowers were handed out to all visitors.