tasted many wines and met with many people on the aftermath of a nice, delicate snow-fall the day before. I have a picture taken outside as I arrived for work and I will include some of the four Morning Poems that I wrote then before starting work and having no idea exactly how busy and crazy and fun it would all be as everyone managed to show up on this day and I invited everyone there to join us and gather around and become part of this truly serendipitous and glorious day here in our nation's capitol in Cleveland Park N.W. a great neighborhood of Washington D.C. with a fine wine store and all other retail establishments to boot,too! I know, I know : I am tooting our own horns - so be it.
There's an art to pouring a bottle of wine - to presenting a bottle of wine, to drinking and sharing a bottle of wine with family and friends and also of how to match it with a meal : thus this blog is an art expression of one of the steps in how this all comes together in the day of the life of me and everyone that I come into contact and help to facilitate and bring together as many people and wines as I can to get at the best and most interesting matches and connections possible. I love this art - perfect for the artist in me.
There's also an art in simply choosing a wine that may be off of many peoples' " hit lists " or radars screens like the bottle being poured of a dry and delightful-with-food Spanish Tempranillo from the Valencia region that is better known for it's sweeter reds and sparkling white. Also notice the bottle of ROTARI yellow-labelled sparkling wine sitting on the table in the photo to the right? That's what we should mention more often, too as it came before the proseccos that are so popular today and eclipsing all other bubblies from Italy and that's a shame as the ROTARI from Trento is dry and complex, rich and flavorful and long-finished and a much better match for many foods even though it is a bit more expensive. There's still a real place for the ROTARI'S of this world.
To Bathe Sun Yes Shine
In Glow Bath Be
Lathered Slathered Be
Basted Caked Baked Ah
All Glow All Aglow All
Go Go Go Go Go Go Gone
Love Light Lime Clear
Cleanse Be So Pure
Source From Darkness
Throug To Blue Light Came
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So Now Pow Now Now Now
It Flushes Through So Cold
Spaces Dark In Arms 'N Leg
Legs Up Of Warmth Of Char
Charm No Harm Joy Just
I Love Da Sun Honey Bun
I Love Yo Amo J'Aime
Never Torn Always It To Turn
'Cept When Part I Must Adie
Adieu Bid To Not More
Voir Wait To Voir Again
To Like Hands Now Bathed Be
They In Delicate Slight Warmth
Of Sun's Shine So Nice ...
#1 Le 13 Janvier, 2011 Mercredi matin en voiture en Virginie a 11:44AM avant de commencer mon travail a Washington D.C. on a clear, bright, sunny, just-right crystal ball blue baby skies , puffy long strings of clouds whites TONY
I took the picture above to record the snow and the sunshine of course but even more to record the red berries or buds or flowers of the smaller green bushes. Enlarge it on your screen and you will see them better : great contrast of the winter!
We had in the store this day : Nelson, Jennifer, Michael with the Cossack black cap, Santos, Chris, Mandie, Lauren, Kelly, Jeff, Mark, David, a male customer and his child that he was carrying in a Papoose in front of him, Ravi, the chef and his girlfriend, Marci, customers that I photographed outside in the store windows' reflections, my reflection in the Dino Italian window on the corner of Connecticut Avenue and the street before Porter that I can never remember the name of - starts with a " W " I think ..., and more. Of course there are all the wines in the Reidel wine-tasting glasses and some wine bottles of course since I am in the wine business at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008 Tel:202-363-4265, sales@clevelandparkwine.com www.clevelandparkwine.com also on Facebook at : cleveland park wines & spirits and on Twitter at L CPWINESPIRITS, too , , chatwine.blogspot.com and chatpoetry.blogspot.com ).
Check us out at all of these sights. The companies of wines represented were : Vintage of New York, Constantine Imports in Maryland, Monument Imports in Washington D.C., Washington Wholesalers in Washington D.C., SW SEIG in Virginia and the Pinnacle House, too. There were probably more but these are the ones represented in these photos mounted here so far for your visual enjoyment of motion, action, activity and overall emotional joy and positive energy flow - all essential to providing an environment in which people want to be a part and use as a destination point.
Cheers, I may add more. It's now Tuesday evening at 7:03PM here at home in northern Virginia on a cold and what started off as very sleety and icy day on January 18th, 2011. Be careful as you navigate and watch out for those slick areas. TONY
To Draw Must Draw More
Raw Raw Rawings Of
Peopes Know Peops Want
Know Now Better
I Did For So Get To
Not Draw Sara My Miss
My Oportune Missed Oh
Well Better Forget Not Tim
Time Next Will None So
Her Mail To Xtend Con Tata
Tact A 'Nection Good A
'Nection Grow Into Along
To Live Full LIfe Xpose
I did show this to wine-maker Sara Shaw of DAEDALUS CELLARS wines of Dundee, Willamette Valley, Oregon on Saturday evening 8:45PM this past weekend as I was finished downloading all these pictures to give hare an idea of what I would do and have done of her pictures her on my various blogs. I got the distinct impression that she liked what she saw. Is that correct Sara?
My Fortune Cookie today was earlier this afternoon : " The Job Is Well Done. " and my Lotto Six numbers are 7 12 16 37 35 4 , and my daily numbers are : 6 9 8 . I like the fortune as I do feel that I have done today a job well done.
To Much To Make Of Most
It My Life My Joy My
Time Earth On Times To
Grow The 'Nec 'Nect ,Nection
So Smart So Perf So Now
While On Earth Good Berth
Good Stool Good Place Put
On Place Best For See To
Land SEa Skies On Ice Cold
Now Ponds Even Now Forward
Back Skate ...
#2 Le 13 Janvier, 2011 Jeudi matin en voiture en Virginie a 11:51AM avant de commencer mon travail a Washington D.C. on a sunny, bright, brisk, brr, cold, lots of shine, baby blue skies, fresh' alive, thrive, arrive! winter's morn ... TONY
