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Brownie Points Recipe: 3 Packs a Week. 3 Glasses a Day!

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Alright alright alright, I know 3 packs a week and 3 glasses a day isn’t exactly the recipe for brownie points!  But without those vital ingredients, the sitauation in which Bob could score those brownie points with his mom, Claudia, may not be what it is.  What’s Claudia Tillman’s secret to longevity (we celebrated her 90th a few months ago)? Just ask her! Bob shares Grandma Claudia’s regimen in the latest installment with the Wine Weirdos (obviously no one in the Tillman is a medical professional but 90 years gives Grandma some cred.!).

Bob and Weirdo Mike taste the 2008 Claudia Cuvee in our tasting room in Paso Robles. This wine is Alta Colina’s first white and apparently Bob was not only going for a tasty unique blend, but a few mama’s boy brownie points as well!

The Claudia Cuvee has been tasting great and this summer is the ideal time to enjoy this blend. As Bob mentions, this is carried by 60% Marsanne, which carries a couple years in the bottle beautifully so we (Grandma Claudia included of course!) have been enjoying this wine like crazy lately and we hope you are too!

The Weirdos Are at it Again!

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The Wine Weirdos crew visited the winery a few weeks ago and joined Winemaker Bob in tasting our current releases. Check out this great, short video about our delicious Viognier based white, the 2009 12 O’Clock High.

White Friday Weekend

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Black Friday. The busiest shopping day of the year. This season’s economic great white hope. There are few things in this world that make me want to avoid major retail centers and drink wine in the afternoon more than Black Friday! So, with that in mind, we are introducing our first WHITE FRIDAY Weekend at Alta Colina!

Come hang out with Maggie in the tasting room, enjoy a taste, and snag our delectable white blends at 10% off all weekend long in our tasting room. We won’t be open at 3 am I’m afraid—noon is as much as we could handle this Friday. And if anyone gets too excited and I sense a trampling coming on, I will not be afraid to put baby in the corner. So let’s keep our cool and enjoy some great whites this weekend.

Bring Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Corks…

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WE WANT YOUR CORKS! I learned about ReCork a few months ago and, as of today, we are on official collection center for natural corks. As we were going through the bottle design process back in 2008, we decided to use natural cork closures. We made that decision for a few reasons: it’s an effective closure, it’s a sustainable product, corks are pretty, and it’s a wine tradition (one we recognize isn’t necessary but we enjoy nonetheless). No matter what closure we had decided to use, the fact remains that we are (albeit a very small) a commercial winery so we go through a whole lot of whatever is closing our bottles. That’s where ReCork comes in!

ReCork is a non-profit organization that collects used natural corks and re-purposes them for all kinds of products. In their words (from recork.org), cork is “100% natural, biodegradable and renewable. There is no reason natural wine corks should end up as garbage when recycled cork can become flooring tiles, building insulation, automotive gaskets, craft materials, soil conditioner and sports equipment.” ReCork aims to “recycle corks and to educate and inform our audiences about
 the crucial role cork forests play in curbing climate change.” As residents of planet Earth, we try to incorporate socially and ecologically response practices into our day-to-day activities as much as possible. Thanks to ReCork, our avid wine consumption will go a little further to bring good things to the world-at-large! Visit recork.org for all the dirty details on what ReCork is all about.