Wine Tasting Celebration! June 20, 2009

Wine Tasting Celebration!

June 20th
3:00 - 4:30pm
Bentley's Market
9439 N Fort Washington Road
Fresno, CA 93730
559-892-4200

Just a fun bunch of people who love wine and get together at Bentley's Market every Saturday at 3pm to learn more, laugh and meet new people. Bentley's Wine Expert will be there to educate members on the wonderful world of wines!
(Every Saturday at 3pm in the Wine Department year round)

A representative of the Winery will be on hand to discuss wines.

Appetizers by Roy Harland's kitchen will be served with the Tasting.

Samantha Starr Chardonnay 2007
This delicious Chardonnay was stainless steel fermented to retain the pure fruit flavors and aged in French oak barrels for added complexity. Medium straw in color, the nose shows balanced elements of tropical fruits and fresh citrus. On the palate it exhibits ripe bananas, peach and just a hint of toasty oak. The long, crisp finish is soft with sweet yeasty overtones. This is a wonderful, food friendly wine that will pair well with a variety of dishes.
Samantha Starr Pinot Noir 2006
This delicious Pinot Noir is a deep ruby in color with very good clarity and brightness. The nose is of strawberries, raspberries, and cedar with a hint of smoke. It is fruit forward with black cherries and plums on the palate. Very well balanced, the wine shows a pleasing richness and concentration followed by a fruit driven finish with crisp acidity. This is a wonderful food friendly wine that well pair well with a variety of dishes.

Twenty Bench Cabernet Sauvignon 2006
Buy a bottle of Twenty Bench and you'll be sipping on wine world serendipity. Back in the fall of 2000 winemaker and viticulturist Jim Regusci (Regusci Wines) bought 20 tons of top notch cab from a friend whose vineyard he had planted and managed. Not exactly sure what to do with the wine, he vinified it separate from his other grapes and marked the barrel it was resting in "Twenty Bench" referring to the 20 tons of fruit and the benchland vineyard the grapes had come from. Fast-forward a year. Two of Jim's friends, marketing and sales gurus James Harder and Jim Gill, said they wanted to make a top notch cab that would retail for less than $20. Jim sampled them on the Twenty Bench from his cellar and, impressed, a partnership was struck. Now on the seventh vintage, Twenty Bench continues to be a delicious cab that over-delivers vintage after vintage for a price that can't be beat.

Trumpeter Malbec 2006
Inky and dense with attractive berry aromas and a touch of cinnamon and sweet spice. A fully, fruity wine, with excellent body, intense tannins, flavors of cherry, blackberry, boysenberry and plum intermingled with hints of cardamom and pepper, and a long, full finish.