Happy New Year to everyone.

Please note that we will be closed:

Sunday, January 1st

Monday, January 2nd

Tuesday, January 3rd

Wednesday, January 4th

Thursday, January 5th

and will re-open on

Friday, January 6th at 5:00 PM

Thank you.

The Vineyard Wine Bar Announcements

NEW YEARS EVE 2011

What are you doing New Years Eve?

Why not make The Vineyard Wine Bar your destination for a celebration!

Join us this New Years Eve for Dinner, or Dessert, or both.

We’ll have 2 reserved seatings this New Years Eve.

We will open at 6:00 PM for our 1st seating, which will be for Dinner, (no dessert or drinks only please). We will seat dinner guests between 6:00 Pm and 7:00 Pm… and will close at 9:00 Pm. (We’ll also have a few dinner, and wine, features for the evening.)

We will re-open at 10:00 PM for our 2^nd seating which will be for Dessert and Drinks, (you’ll also be able to order from the dinner menu too if you haven’t yet had dinner.)

Our Dessert and Drinks seating will be from 10:00 Pm to 12:30 Am.

We’ll also have live music at our 2^nd seating, with Tim McAlee on jazz guitar. Tim will be playing smooth jazz tunes, classics, and even some Christmas related songs with a “Jazzy influence”. We’ll also be handing out party hats, and party blowers for the 2nd seating as we usher in the New Year.

Plan to celebrate New Years Eve with us at The Vineyard Wine Bar.

Call us at 443-502-2551 to reserve your place.

Wine News:

In the Spring of this past year, (after much pleading), Chester Osborn, (Wine maker extraordinaire) from the d’Arenberg winery in Australia agreed to make us ONE-LAST-BATCH of his Sparkling Chambourcin… which many of you love, and is discontinued. Well… Chester made that last batch and we are now down to the last 7 cases (they’re 6 bottles to a case). ….so, if any of you would like the last of the d’Arenberg Sparkling Red Chambourcin please come in and get yours. When it’s gone, it’ll be gone for good.

Gourmet Shop News:

We are pleased to announce that our Artisan, Handmade, GLUTEN-FREE, salami’s have finally arrived from Creminelli. We have them available in three flavors/styles: Sopressata, Piccante and Castalingo. They’re delicious. Stop in to our Gift Shop for a sample.

Facebook:

For those of you that follow Facebook…. you can now follow us, and “Like Us” on Facebook.

Thank you, and hope to see you soon.

The Vineyard Wine Bar December 2011 Announcements and Events:

1. Join us for “Live Jazz” as we welcome guitarist Brent Shallcross next Monday night, December 12th at The Vineyard Wine Bar between 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM. Brent’s smooth Jazz guitar will calm the nerves after a day of work, or holiday shopping.

2. Announcing our next WINE BASICS Wine Education class.

Our last “Wine Basics/Wine Appreciation” class for 2011 will be held on Thursday, December 15th at 6:30 pm in the lounge.

With this “Wine Basics/Wine Appreciation” class, we’ll be discussing:
The 3 different styles of wine
The 3 different types of wine
The “5 S’s”
The proper way to hold a glass, and why certain glasses make wine taste better
How to read a wine bottle label and understand what they’re telling us
The role BIG BUSINESS plays in the wine industry
Different grapes, (Native, Hybrid and Vinifera), and the areas they grow in
The difference between “New World” wines and “Old World” wines
The role “Sulfites” plays in wine
The difference “Oak” makes in wine
Decanting wine
Storing wine
Proper temperature to serve
Wine “Flaws”
… and other topics along with time for questions and answers.

“Wine Basics/Wine Appreciation” will run approximately 2 hours, and the class size is limited to 20 people. The cost is $25 which includes wine.

Please email Joe at joelertch@gmail.com or call 443-502-2551, to reserve your place.

3. Reservations: You can now make reservations on our web site by simply “clicking” the “MAKE A RESERVATION” tab. (You can also make reservations via your i-phone or Droid phone via “Open Table”.)

4. In the next couple days we will be posting our New Years Eve schedule. Stay tuned and spend New Years Eve partying with us.

Please join us next Wednesday, December 7th, anytime between 7:00 Pm and 8:30 Pm in our lounge for a tasting of the Montepulciano grape and the wines from Abruzzo, Italy.

Our friend, and Italian Wine Specialist, Filippo Lapides, will start the tasting at 7:00 PM and will talk about the importance of the Montepulciano grape from the Valle Reale Winery.

We’ll taste:

Valle Reale Trebbiano (White)

Valle Reale Montepulciano D’Abruzzo Vigna Nuovo (Red)

Valle Reale Montepulciano D’Abruzzo (Old Vine) (Red)

and

Valle Reale “San Calisto” (Red)
(San Calisto is the most award wining Montepulciano in Italy, and is a low-yield, small production wine.)

The Valle Reale Estate Winery is the only winery located within the National Park of Abruzzo and produces what many call the best Montepulciano from the Abruzzo region. As a bonus the wines are organic without added sulfites.

The tasting is FREE and is a “Flow Tasting” meaning that you can come anytime between 7:00 and 8:30 Pm and listen to Filippo talk about, (and of course taste), the wines from The Valle Reale Winery.

We hope to see you on December 7th for this fun tasting.

Happy Holidays to All

The Vineyard Wine Bar would like to work with you to help make this Holiday Season special for the Children of Havre de Grace.

We will be accepting donated presents at our Gift Shop located at 200 N. Washington St. and in return we will thank you with a $5 gift card to The Vineyard Wine Bar.

We request donations to be unwrapped NEW items for boys and girls ages 0 -15 yrs.

Some gift ideas: Hats, Gloves, Scarves, Sweaters, Pajamas, Books, Puzzles, Games, Art Supplies, Dolls, Action Figures, Etc.

We will be accepting donations from Dec 1st – Dec 10th. We will wrap all the gifts and deliver them to St. Patrick’s Church so they can distribute them to families in need.

If your schedule does not allow time for shopping we will gladly accept monetary donations and we will do the shopping for you.

We would like to thank you ahead of time for helping make this Holiday Season more enjoyable for the Children of Havre de Grace.

Seasons Greetings!

Joe, Jarrod, and the Entire Staff of The Vineyard Wine Bar.

The Vineyard Wine Bar Gift Shop Hours

Wednesday 3pm-8pm
Thursday 11am-8pm
Friday 11am-9pm
Saturday 11am-9pm
Sunday 12pm-6pm