Soif Winebar

 

 

In conjunction with the Equality Action Project, Soif Wine Bar will be featuring our “A Perfect Marriage” dessert special in commemoration of the first anniversary of the first day on which gay and lesbian couples were able to marry in Santa Cruz County. To celebrate this anniversary, we are offering Warm “Molten Love” Chocolate Cake with a glass of Barros Tawny Port for $15.00. That combo would normally tips the scales at $20.25.

 

We invite all members of the community to join us in advocating for equal rights for all couples. 

 

 

For a very limited time beginning this Wednesday, we will be pouring some recently acquired 1978 Ch. Pontet-Canet at the bar by-the-glass. These bottles are in excellent condition and drinking fabulously. $17.50 per glass/$8.75 per taste. This is certainly not inexpensive, but presents a fairly rare opportunity to taste some serious Bordeaux at a less than seriously painful price. 

 

 

We are continuing our emphasis on Pinot Noir in our Red Flights. Beginning Wednesday 17 June, we will again feature two different Pinot Noir flights:

 

2006 Marc Roy Gevrey-Chambertin “Vieilles Vignes

2006 Marc Roy Gevrey-Chambertin “Clos Prieur”

 

2002 Waitiri Creek Pinot Noir – Central Otago

2005 Nevis Bluff Pinot Noir – Central Otago

2006 Pyramid Valley “Eaton Family Vineyard” Pinot Noir – Marlborough

 

Marc Roy is run by Alexandrine Roy, the fourth generation Roy to assume the reins at this a very small house [4 hectares/10 acres] in Gevrey. The Roy holdings include almost entirely old vines, 40 years or older. The wines of Gevrey are large and structured compared to most in Burgundy, but the Roy wines are unusually transparent, crystalline and very, very fine. These are two of the finest bottles of Burgundy in the shop.

 

Kiwi pinot noir has been surprisingly popular chez Soif. It is not terribly expensive compared to its Burgundian and Californian brethren, and the wines are immediately appealing – friendly and forward rather than mineral or intellectual – so perhaps it should not be any great surprise. The three wines in the flight are quite different. The Waitiri Creek is rich and savory. The Nevis Bluff very bright and forward and immensely crowd pleasing. The Pyramid Valley is the most ambitious of the three and incidentally, made by Michael Weersing, local boy made good who grew up near Pigeon Point Lighthouse. Michael’s wines combine a strong expression of terroir, with an amiable guzzlibility.

 

Our final two pinot noir flights, which will begin on June 24, will feature several North Coast obscurities and favorites.

             

June 17, 2009 – Dry Riesling

 

2007 Roland Schmitt "Glinzberg" Riesling - Alsace, France

2006 Brooks Riesling - Willamette, Oregon

2006 Nikolaihof "Vom Stein" Riesling - Wachau, Austria

 

The dates and wines listed above are subject to change without further notice.

Soif Wine Bar-Restaurant & Merchants
105 Walnut Avenue, Downtown