Wreckless Blenders

Todos Santos Plaza

August 7, 2011

1-4pm

More information on the Facebook Event Page.

The fifth annual Taste of Concord promises to continue the tradition of good family fun strolling around Todos Santos Park in downtown Concord on Sunday August 7. Enjoy the walking restaurant and business tour, wine tasting for the donation of $20.00. We will also have terrific silent auction items donated by some of your favorite local businesses. All proceeds benefit local nonprofits serving our community as well as our Kiwanis International Worldwide project to eliminate Maternal/Neonatal Tetanus and the death of a baby every 9 minutes in 38 countries. Free parking throughout downtown. Purchase your tickets online athttp://tasteofconcord.even​tbrite.com/

For more information, contact:
Tim McGallian: (925) 408-5349
Rocci Barsott:i (925) 285-2225

Join us in early 2010 for the San Francisco Bay Area “Coming out of the Cellar” party.

Logistics

Date and time to be announced.

Join us at the

3rd Annual “Night at the Museum”

7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Aerospace Museum of California

3200 Freedom Park Drive, McClellan, CA

Proceeds from the event ticket sales, live and silent auctions benefit local, charitable and nonprofit causes, including:

• Sacramento Crisis Nursery
• Ronald McDonald House
• WIND Youth Services

Live Music and Dancing

Business Casual Attire

$40 per person/$50 at the door

Call 916-871-4025 or visit www.rotarynightatthemuseum.org

Many among you know us as the FatCat Vintners, but we’re recently come out of the cellar revamped as the Wreckless Blenders, bonded and ready to unleash upon the world our 100 cases of delicious, hand-crafted red wines!

Lots of you have helped over the years, by scraping bottles, bottling finished wines, tasting and commenting, and by helping us polish off 20 years worth of homemade wine. You have been a big part of this operation…now it’s time to taste our new wines, sample the delicious snacks from Ambrosia Café, and hang out with a very special crowd.

An RSVP is not absolutely necessary, but it would give us an idea of how many bottles to bring…

Wreckless Wines will be available to purchase that evening, with arrangements to pick them up at the winery in Carmichael.

The Wreckless Blenders, Don Koehler, John Trioano, Dave Ashukian, Johnny Rocket Nichols, and Jim Brown are proud to include you as friends…so please join us for our Coming Out of the Cellar Party!

For all of you fans in the San Francisco Bay Area, we are part of the Downtown Wine Walk in Walnut Creek on June 24, 2009.

Expected to be a great event, this is the second annual Wine Walk in Walnut Creek.

For more information, please see the downtown Walnut Creek page.

Wine and Food Extravaganza at the Aerospace Museum of California.

Live and Silent Auction – Live Music and Dancing

Wreckless Blenders Wine will be available and Wreckless JT’s band will be performing!

Business Casual Attire

$40 per person / $50 at the door.

Proceeds will benefit

Sacramento Crisis Nursery

Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento

WIND

Vist the website: http://rotary5180.net/FoothillHighlands

Notes for the Day

Seeking more input on the wines, both 07 and 08.  Acid added to some of  the 07s and it is settling down now, and seems to increase the tannins more than the acid tartness.

The 08 Syrah tastes good, but the pH is still high.

The 07 Petite came in at 56 ppm free SO2. That seems adequate to high, until you see the pH is 3.7or 3.8, which means that is equivalent to 28 ppm in terms of SO2 activity at pH 3.4 or 3.5.

Adding a few chips in a couple of wines that have not been chipped yet, probably the Malbec and Zin, for some vanilla to add to the nutty flavor from the shaved barrels.  (We should think about that at Carmichael, too, for a couple of things).

Discussions of the Day

Bottle type picked. Nice looking, good heft, tapered, and antique green coloring.

Corks selected – natural cork with Wreckless Blenders and the website.

Capsule type selected. Rich maroon color. We discussed having the logo or other decoration, but the cost is pretty high for setup, so we decided to wait.

Tasted 2007 wines, most are very good. Some need chips. We decided to rack the wines out of the shaved barrels in the next few weeks.

Action Items

Rack the wine out of the shaved barrels.

Add acid to a handful of wines to adjust pH.