 Gary's Wine & Marketplace & Crystal Springs Resort Cabernet Day Giveaway Join us in celebrating Cabernet, the king of grapes, at all Gary’s Wine & Marketplace stores from 4-7pm and on ALL social media sites all day Thursday, September 2nd. This great virtual and in-store event will unite Cab drinkers around the world in recognition of the grape that makes every winelover’s heart beat faster. Use the #Cabernet hash tag when posting on Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter, blogs and all the other sites where wine fans hang out. Gary's will have three very special giveaways. - $50 Gift Card to put towards the #Cabernet Day Tasting Kit
- $60 Gift Card to put towards a Bottle of 2007 GF Grand Finale Turnbull Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon
- 3-Course Meal with Wine Pairing (incl. 2006 Palmaz Vineyards Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Napa) and Wine Cellar Tour brought to you by Crystal Springs Resort
Here's how to win: Use your preferred social media channels (FaceBook, Twitter, GoWalla, FourSquare, WordPress, etc.) and spread your enthusiasm for the King of Grapes, (#Cabernet) and Gary's Wine & Marketplace (@garyswine).
Everyone who signs up for our e-blasts and engaging in the #Cabernet Day event by using the #Cabernet hashtag will be considered for winning, the most creative and impactful influencers of the event and mentioning Gary's Wine & Marketplace screen name (@garyswine) will have the greatest chance of winning our giveaways above. (Clue: we love retweets)
#Cabernet Day is brought to you by Rick Bakas and our friends at St. Supery, be sure to register as a participant on the official event site here: http://cabernet.eventbrite.com/
This is not a sweepstakes and the giveaways are promotional with no trade-in value.
We look forward to seeing you online and at one of our three locations in Wayne, Madison, or Bernardsville NJ where we'll be hosting FREE Cabernet tastings on 9/2/2010 from 4pm-7pm.
Cabernet Tasting Kit  This Cabernet Day Tasting Kit Includes
One bottle each of; 2007 Angels Landing Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon From Calistoga fruit, an area made famous by Chateau Montelena. This is a deeply colored Cab with loads of blackberry, currant, and lots of mocha. Very good structure but the tannins are very ripe. This will be a real crowd pleaser for any occasion. 2007 Joseph Phelps Innisfree Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Produced primarily from Phelps estate fruit (the same estate that makes the $150 Insignia Cabernet), Innisfree is baby-Phelps only in the regard that the wine is meant to be consumed young and fresh, while the flavors of ripe blueberry, blackberry and currant are at their best. No harsh, drying tannins here: this wine is big, juicy and ripe, oozing with sweet tannins and carrying a noticeably lengthy finish. Is Innisfree good every year? Yes. Is it better than ever in the 2007 vintage? You got that right. Well done, Phelps team. Soiree Wine Aerator To help you enjoy these even more, we are including a Soiree wine aerator. Just pull the cork, pop the Soiree into the bottle and pour. The Soiree will aerate your Cab, maklng sure that every sip will display all of the great facets of Cabernet that make it the King of Grapes!
2007 GF Grand Finale Turnbull Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon  Shortly after we purchased the 2007 Turnbull Auction Lot at Premiere Napa Valley 2009, winemaker Peter Heitz let it slip that he had more than one special barrel of ’07 fruit stashed away. Having loved the ’07 blend they created for Premiere, we asked him if he could create another blend for our Grand Finale program, and what we got was wine that’s just singing already.
A blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Petit Verdot, 5% Malbec and 5% Merlot, it’s a classic case of letting Cab create the backbone and bringing in a few friends to round it all out. Flashy and ready-to-drink as many ’07 Napa Cabs are, this one is also equipped for a few years in the cellar. Ripe, dark cherry fruit gives way to cassis, sweet chocolatey tannins and roasted coffee on a smooth, lengthy finish.
 3-Course Meal with Wine Pairing (incl. 2006 Palmaz Vineyards Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Napa) and Wine Cellar Tour brought to you by Crystal Springs Resort
Enjoy a stellar 3-course meal paired with exquisite wines – featuring a 2006 Palmaz Vineyards Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Napa - at The Chef’s Garden, located at Grand Cascades Lodge in Hardyston, NJ. The Chef's Garden allows guests a truly unique "farm to fork" al fresco dining experience set amidst beautiful organic vegetables, flowers, herbs and the Kittatinny Mountain Range as a back drop. This dining oasis was designed to be aesthetic and educational, as well as to supply seasonal bounty to our guests. First course Chef Garden Salad Harvested Greens, Heirloom Tomatoes, Fresh snipped Herbs, Table Side Extra Virgin Olive Oil Wine pairing: Reginato Celestina Rose of Malbec Brut, NV Second course Rosemary skewered Grilled Jumbo Prawns Roasted Bell Pepper Caponata Wine pairing: Chardonnay, Terrazas de Los Andes, 06 Third course From our Rodizio Grill Duo of Milk Fed Veal with Pearl Onions Organic Ridge Farm aged Sirloin (Picante) Drizzled white Truffle oil Wine pairing: Cabernet Sauvignon, Palmaz, Napa Valley, 2006 Dessert Cobbler of the Season Wine paiting: Maderia "NY Malmsey" NV Executive Chef Michael Weisshaupt
Wine Director Robby Younes Wine Cellar Tour  A Tour of a world-renowned Wine Cellar of Restaurant Latour at Crystal Springs Resort. Restaurant Latour opened in August 2004 and has already received several impressive awards and accolades. The most prestigious honor received to date is from Wine Spectator magazine, which awarded its highest honor – the Grand Award - to Restaurant Latour annually since 2006. One of less than 80 restaurants to hold this coveted title worldwide, Restaurant Latour is also one of just 2 Grand Award recipients located in New Jersey. Restaurant Latour has also been rated “Excellent” by The New York Times and received a perfect “4-Star” rating from The Star-Ledger.
The amazing Wine Cellar tour takes place three stories below Restaurant Latour. An original wine cellar was constructed in 2004, but after just one year, the Resort realized that the two rooms built were too small for the growing inventory of wines and in succession added six more rooms ... all of them filled from top to bottom with wine. The current inventory contains approximately 6,600 labels and 80,000 bottles from around the world, and those numbers are increasing every week! |
