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By Mark Fisher, Staff Writer 3:35 PM Thursday, November 5, 2009

A sam-pler pack

The California chapter of the National Organization for Women and Bottlenotes, a wine-themed online community and Web site, have joined to launch the “Feminist Wine Club,” according to a NOW news release issued this week.

“All wines in the Feminist Wine Club have been carefully selected by Bottlenotes to showcase some phenomenal wines made or imported by women, or produced at wineries owned by women,” says the Feminist Wine Club Web site (www.bottlenotes.com/feminist-wine-club.

“All proceeds from the Feminist Wine Club go to the California National Organization for Women.”

NOW calls the wine club “an easy, enjoyable, non-intimidating way for women to learn about wine, build community, and support women winemakers and causes as well.”

Fine wine with Halloween candy

The fine folks at A Taste of Wine in Miamisburg (www.atasteofwine.org) asked its e-mail-list members whether they have raided their children’s Halloween candy, and suggested the following candy-and-wine pairings:

“For Skittles, candy corn and Starbursts, try a sweet riesling. Peanut butter cups would pair well with cabernet sauvignon or red zinfandel. And Snickers would be delicious with a 10-year tawny port.”

So now you know

• Dayton was a wine crossroads of sorts last week, with two French winemakers whose wines are imported by Berkeley-based Kermit Lynch Wine Merchants — Emmanuel Delaille of Domaine du Salvard and Serge Farigoule of Domaine le Sang de Cailloux — visiting The Winds in Yellow Springs and Dorothy Lane Market’s Springboro store, while Count Sebastiano Capponi of Villa Calcinaia, a winery in the Chianti region of Tuscany, poured his family’s impressive lineup of wines at DLM Oakwood.

The fact that such high-profile European winemakers are making Dayton a stop on their marketing trips to the United States certainly says something positive about the Dayton wine market, don’t you think?

Highlights of the tastings include the pleasantly tart and refreshing 2008 Domaine du Salvard Cheverny Blanc, $16.99; every 2007 Vacqueyras from Domaine le Sang de Cailloux, which range from $40 to $55; the delicious white Villa Calcinaia Comitale 2007, $16.99; and both the Count’s Villa Calcinaia Chianti Classico 2005 ($21.99 ) and Villa Calcinaia Chianti Classico Riserva 2005 ($34.99). These are good days to be a wine lover in Dayton. Just sayin’.

• Did you know that every Friday — thanks to a local wine listserv that compiles the information — the Dayton Daily News wine Web page Uncorked publishes an extensive list of wine tastings, dinners and other events (including beer tastings, too, — we don’t discriminate) at the following Web address: www.daytondailynews. com/go/uncorked

• Nov. 19 brings the annual release of nouveau Beaujolais, and several wine shops locally and beyond will crack open bottles for drop-in tastings that day to offer the first taste of the 2009 vintage. And what a year it was, according to initial reports from the vineyards and wineries. Georges Duboeuf, the most prominent wine producers in Beaujolais, is described in a news release as “ecstatic about this year’s Beaujolais harvest, predicting it one of the best Beaujolais vintages in the last 50 years.”

We can find out for ourselves on Nov. 19.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2258 or mfisher@Dayton DailyNews.com.

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