December Wine Club Wines & Farmer's Kitchen Restaurant

Our next wine club wines that will be shipped next week includes the 2005 Boushey Vineyard - Red Wine from Boushey Vineyard in the Yakima Valley and our first ever wine from the Red Mountain appellation that being 2005 Red Mountain Merlot from Red Mountain Vineyard. Both wines are highly allocated so if you think you would like some of this wine please feel free to call Jessica Gamache and place your order at 509-521-4433.

The 2005, Boushey Vineyard wine is a blend of 53% Merlot, 40 % Cabernet Sauvignon and 7% Cabernet Franc. All the grapes grown for this blend came from vines 25 years and older. When Dick Boushey approached me before the 2005 harvest with the idea of making a special wine from his vineyard I was honored take the grapes and to make a wine. Dick was recently honored by Wine & Spirits Magazine as " Grower of the Year" for 2007. What a well deserved honor to bestow on a great Washington wine grape grower. We have poured the wine at a few events to give people a sneek preview. The response has been very positive and we should sell through the wine quickly. Only 300 cases were produced of this wine and it is packed in six bottle custom boxes.

Merlot from Red Mountain Vineyard is the other wine in this shipment. Only six barrels of this highly allocated wine were produced from the 2005 vintage. This is the first of what we hope will be many wines from the Red Mountain appellation that we will make for Fidelitas. Only 190 cases of this wine was produced. If you are interested in these wines they are available via our web site at www.fidelitaswines.com If you are a wine club member please remember that you get a 20% discount on these wines for the first thirty dates following recieving the shipment.

I recently had dinner with our distributor Denise & Martin Pitney along with my wife Terri at the Farmer's Kitchen in Hermiston, Oregon. We had a great dinner and I would recommend checking this fairly new restaurant out the next time you are looking for a great dining experience. The proprietors of this new establishment are Kristen and Aaron Yunker. Aaron is from Hermiston. The location of the restaurant is 920 SE 4th in Hermiston and they can be reached at 541-289-3333. They can also be reached via e-mail at FarmersKitchen@gmail.com . Martin and I had the Lamb, while Denise and Terri ordered the Cajun Ling Cod. Both entree's were fabulous and the atmosphere superb. We also ordered three different dessert's and enjoyed both cheesecakes and a baked apple pie. If you get a chance check this great new addition to our area. The Farmer's Kitchen is open Tuesday through Saturday from 5- 9 P.M.