Greetings from Stockholm!

Thought I'd post a quick note before I head out to dinner tonight at Aquavit, Markus Samuelsson's place here in Stockholm.

We've had some great days here. Sailing yesterday with Niklas, wondering the streets, people watching with great espresso & gelatto and shopping today around central Stockholm, and on Saturday walking the old town and visting Skanssen with Ylva.

Stockholm is a great place. Wonderful people who are all helpful and generous, a clean beautiful city with wonderful architecture and lots of southern Europeans visting, so I'm getting to work on my Castillian. (ouch...it's really ugly). I was talking to someone from Madrid last night at the hotel bar and it was a stretch to understand each other. Wow...my Latin Spanish is soooo much different and doesn't adapt very well :-)

I'll post some pics later.

Ciao,

jase

2007 Abacela Garnacha Rosado

From Abacela in southern Oregon, this bright rose is an nice example of the recent, well deserved popularity being attached to wines of Southern Oregon. Garnacha is one of my favorite varietals, and by doing a rose with it, winemaker Andrew Wenzl takes the bold to the beautiful.

The grapes are estate-grown on south-facing slopes in the Umpqua Valley, were pressed with limited time on the skins and fermented and aged in stainless.

Raspberry, roses and strawberries are all present in the nose. With a very bright acidity on the front end and pomegrates & candied cherries filling the mouth, it finishes very dry and mineraly.

Retail ~$15

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