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2013-05-09

2012 Hour Magazine Wine Store of the Year

Wine Tasting Saturday!

 

Stop by between 11 am and 5 pm! Plus, CHEESE samples!

Sampling a nice variety at several price points

Wine Stroll tickets on sale here! It’s next Saturday, kids!

We have more bacon. We. Have. More. Bacon!!!

 

Note: We will be CLOSED this Sunday, May 12 for Mother’s Day.

 

Come one, come all to another of our drop-in wine tasting Saturdays this weekend. We’ll be pouring samples of “five or six” wines, including some new vintages, old Cloverleaf favorites, and possibly one or two new wines. Make it a point to stop in between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., try some wine and some of the excellent cheeses we’re now carrying, stock up for Mother’s Day (hint: Mimosas, or rosè!), and of course talk wine. Even better, if you can, BRING MOM!

 

 

Wine Stroll next weekend! Purchase tickets now, Save $10

 

You and 1,700 of your best friends can tour downtown Royal Oak’s finest restaurants and retail establishments on Saturday, May 18 from Noon to 5pm. Each stop will have wine samples and appetizers, including yours truly, Cloverleaf Fine Wine, which will be partaking again for the 5th straight year. This is typically a raucous, fun, and popular event, so if you want to go it is best to purchase tickets in advance! You can purchase directly from us for $40 each, or pay $50 the day of the event—if there are any tickets left at all. Wine Stroll usually sells out, especially with good weather. This is a great way to pop in to a number of great Royal Oak businesses all in one afternoon, places you may have passed by for years on your way to Doofus Big Box, Inc.  Buy Local!

 

Featured Wines…

 

Locations “I” (Italy)

Reg. price: $24

Sale price: $17.99 (no further discounts)

Note: Winemaker Dave Phinney of Orin Swift fame has come out with the latest in his Locations series of wines. “I” for Italy follows “E” for Espana and “F” for France, with the idea that the wines will present creative and delicious blends of classic varietals from each country. The “locations” for “I” are as far south as Puglia and as far north as Piemonte, and the blend features Negroamaro, Nero d’Avola, Barbera, and native varietals of Puglia.

Winemaker’s note: “Revealing an attractive color spectrum of crimson and scarlet with a slight magenta band on the rim, the wine explodes with aromas of macerated raspberries, dried lavender, plum tart, and toasty oak accents. The palate is immediately hit with super lush flavors of ripe berries and spice, supported with a dense core that has just the right amount of characteristic acidity. The tannins are already velvety and soft which provide for a lingering finish with hints of minerality and some herbal notes.”

Pikorua Sauvignon Blanc (Marlborough, New Zealand)

Reg. price: $13

Sale price: $9.99 (no further discounts)

Tom’s note: This wine is a really, really nice surprise! To my knowledge it is new to the Detroit market and is only available to restaurants and a few select fine wine shops (ahem). Dry, crisp, with bright tropical fruits (but not too “grapefruity”) and light herbal notes. At less than ten dollars it way overdelivers.”

 

2011 Fontanafredda Briccotondo Barbera (Piedmont)

Reg. price: $14

Sale price: $10.99

Tom’s note: “Cherry-berry floral and herbal notes mingle over smooth tannins. Crisp, juicy flavors with nice density in the mid-palate with racy acidity driving the floral and spicy finish. We had a salesman in here the other day, and he noticed Oscar Farinetti’s photo on the cover of the new Wine Spectator magazine here in the store. He said ‘Hey, that guy’s also in the wine business, and we have one of his wines and I have it on sale!’ So we tried it, and it is just a classic Piedmont Barbera, and because it’s on sale we are able to offer it at a really, really good value.

 

“Piedmont is an area of northern Italy that is really known for food. It is also the home of the Barbera grape, and though Barbera is now grown all over the world, this is the real thing. It tastes exactly like a Barbera is supposed to taste, and at this price it is a tremendous opportunity."

 

Circle M Ranch Center-Cut Bacon

$7.99/pound

Note: Tom Natoci has made another sojourn to the nether regions of the hallowed Peninsula and returned with more of his self-professed “best bacon I’ve ever had.” This stuff is the beauty, thick-cut with a light smokiness to it. Pick some up Saturday when you come to taste some wines!

--The Guys (and Gal!) at Cloverleaf

 

 


2013-04-26

2012 Hour Magazine Wine Store of the Year

Another wine tasting this Saturday

 

FREE event samples wines of Spain

All choices of “superstar” importer Jorge Ordonez

2013 Royal Oak Wine Stroll comes May 18

Tickets on sale here! Event will sell out

 

Last weekend’s in-store tasting of South African wines was such a hit, we’re doing it again! This time the focus will be on the wines of Spain. Join us this Saturday, April 27th, from Noon to 5 pm as we try reds, whites, and rosès brought to the U.S. by importer Jorge Ordonez. From Borsao to Fuego to Milcampos to Alto Moncayo and several others, Ordonez wines have been big sellers at Cloverleaf over the last several years because they deliver excellent, consistent wines, vintage after vintage, at tremendous value whatever the price point. As wine press icon Robert Parker has stated, “Certainly, one could say that Jorge Ordoñez is a gift from Bacchus to thrifty wine consumers.”

 

So please plan to stop in this Saturday, sample a variety of excellent Spanish wines, nosh on our great Cloverleaf cheeses, and do your weekend wine shopping with us! Vino Bueno!

 

Wine Stroll! Purchase tickets now, from us! Save $10

 

You and 1,700 of your best friends can tour downtown Royal Oak’s finest restaurants and retail establishments on Saturday, May 18 from Noon to 5pm. Each stop will have wine samples and appetizers, including yours truly, Cloverleaf Fine Wine, which will be partaking again for the 5th straight year. This is typically a raucous, fun, and popular event, so if you want to go it is best to purchase tickets in advance! You can purchase directly from us for $40 each, or pay $50 the day of the event—if there are any tickets left at all. Wine Stroll usually sells out, especially with good weather. This is a great way to pop in to a number of great Royal Oak businesses all in one afternoon, places you may have passed by for years on your way to Doofus Big Box, Inc.  Buy Local!

 

Featured Wines…

 

2011 Fontanafredda Briccotondo Barbera (Piedmont)

Reg. price: $14

Sale price: $10.99

Tom’s note: “Cherry-berry floral and herbal notes mingle over smooth tannins. Crisp, juicy flavors with nice density in the mid-palate with racy acidity driving the floral and spicy finish. We had a salesman in here the other day, and he noticed Oscar Farinetti’s photo on the cover of the new Wine Spectator magazine here in the store. He said ‘Hey, that guy’s also in the wine business, and we have one of his wines and I have it on sale!’ So we tried it, and it is just a classic Piedmont Barbera, and because it’s on sale we are able to offer it at a really, really good value.

 

“Piedmont is an area of northern Italy that is really known for food. It is also the home of the Barbera grape, and though Barbera is now grown all over the world, this is the real thing. It tastes exactly like a Barbera is supposed to taste, and at this price it is a tremendous opportunity."

 

 

And here’s another: “The fact that wines such as this can be purchased is unbelievable.”-Robert Parker

 

2011 Domaine LaFage Bastide Miraflors (France)

Less than $14

Tasting note from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate: “ 93 points. There are 3,000 cases of the naked, virginal, unoaked 2011 Bastide Miraflors Vieilles Vignes made from 70% Syrah and 30% Grenache aged in concrete. The difficult economic situation in the Languedoc-Roussillon corridor is being exploited to the maximum by importer Eric Solomon. The fact that wines such as this can be purchased is unbelievable. Largely an artisanal wine, it is brilliantly pure with a stunning nose of spring flowers, blackberries, cassis and earth. It is almost incomprehensible that something of this quality, complexity and richness can be purchased for $25 to $50, much less $10 to $12. The 3,000 cases should be gobbled up as quickly as they hit retailers’ shelves. I am honored to share my excitement about this amazing wine with readers.”

 

--The Guys (and Gal!) at Cloverleaf

 

 


2013-04-18

2012 Hour Magazine Wine Store of the Year

Wine tasting this Saturday

 

FREE event samples wines of South Africa

SALE on a new, “classic Piedmont Barbera”

From the founders of brilliant market concept “Eataly”

Plus, spectacular French wine for just $14!!!

 

Join us this Saturday, April 20th, from 12 Noon to 3 pm as we actually get to help a new wine wholesaler select his inventory! Or at least part of it. Specifically, we’ll be sampling 9 wines from South Africa and offering our opinions on them as a local businessman, who has started a new wine importing company, chooses his book. The event is FREE and we will be sampling several of the cheeses that are available for sale at Cloverleaf. So come on in, sample, mingle, nosh, and of course STOCK UP! It’s springtime, baby!

 

Great new Barbera, ridiculously low price

 

Perhaps you’ve heard of Italian businessman Oscar Farinetti, or more specifically his upscale market Eataly which is taking the food and wine world by storm. With its original location in Turin, Italy, and subsequent openings in New York (along with Mario Batali), Tokyo, Rome, and (we hope, soon) Chicago, Eataly is as much a destination as it is a marketplace. The huge Eataly stores are a combination European-style open market, Whole Foods-type supermarket, restaurant, bar, and learning centers.

 

“We had a salesman in here the other day,” explains Cloverleaf’s Tom Natoci, “and he noticed Oscar Farinetti’s photo on the cover of the new Wine Spectator magazine here in the store. He said ‘Hey, that guy’s also in the wine business, and we have one of his wines and I have it on sale!’ So we tried it, and it is just a classic Piedmont Barbera, and because it’s on sale we are able to offer it at a really, really good value.”

 

“Piedmont is an area of northern Italy that is really known for food,” Tom continued. “It is also the home of the Barbera grape, and though Barbera is now grown all over the world, this is the real thing. It tastes exactly like a Barbera is supposed to taste, and at this price it is a tremendous opportunity."

 

2011 Fontanafredda Briccotondo Barbera (Piedmont)

Reg. price: $14

Sale price: $10.99

Tom’s note: “Cherry-berry floral and herbal notes mingle over smooth tannins. Crisp, juicy flavors with nice density in the mid-palate with racy acidity driving the floral and spicy finish.”

 

And here’s another: “The fact that wines such as this can be purchased is unbelievable.”-Robert Parker

 

2011 Domaine LaFage Bastide Miraflors (France)

Less than $14

Tasting note from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate: “ 93 points. There are 3,000 cases of the naked, virginal, unoaked 2011 Bastide Miraflors Vieilles Vignes made from 70% Syrah and 30% Grenache aged in concrete. The difficult economic situation in the Languedoc-Roussillon corridor is being exploited to the maximum by importer Eric Solomon. The fact that wines such as this can be purchased is unbelievable. Largely an artisanal wine, it is brilliantly pure with a stunning nose of spring flowers, blackberries, cassis and earth. It is almost incomprehensible that something of this quality, complexity and richness can be purchased for $25 to $50, much less $10 to $12. The 3,000 cases should be gobbled up as quickly as they hit retailers’ shelves. I am honored to share my excitement about this amazing wine with readers.”

 

--The Guys (and Gal!) at Cloverleaf

 

 


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