Subject: Orangewood Wines Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 20 – July 19, 2008
Sent: Saturday July 19, 2008 9:45 AM
Introduction
The last newsletter was in May, so you didn’t miss
one! When someone mentioned that it was time for me to ramble again, I
realized it has been a while. I am delighted to say that we are surviving
in the current environment – Arizona
summer and alleged economic downturn. I say “alleged” because I know
supposedly everyone is running for the hills, but a lot of people are staying
at home to drink wine. Saluté!
Box Score
New Restaurants: 7
New Retail/Wine Bar
Outlets: 2
New
Wineries
1
Contents
New
Restaurants
New
Wine Stores/Wine Bars
New
Wineries
Rambling
New Restaurants
Bellagio Pizzeria
4545 East McKellips Road
Mesa, AZ 85215
(480) 325-1600
Bin 239
239 North Marina
Street
Prescott, Arizona
86301
(928) 445-3855
Broker's Bar and Grill
16640 North
Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ
85254
(480) 348-1010
Christo's
Ristorante
6327 North Seventh
Street
Phoenix, AZ
85014
(602) 264-1784
Iron Springs Café
1501 West Iron
Springs Road
Prescott, AZ
86305-1399
(928) 443-8848
Ruffino Italian Cuisine
4902 East Warner
Road
Phoenix, AZ
85044
(480) 893-8544
Tutti Santi
Ristorante Italiano
7575 North 16th
Street
Phoenix, Arizona
85020
( 602) 216-0336
New Wine
Stores/Wine Bars
Magnum’s
731 East Union Hills
Drive
Phoenix, AZ
85024
(602) 493-8977
Park Plaza Liquor & Deli
402 West Goodwin
Street
Prescott, AZ
86303
(928) 541-9894
New Wineries
Bill Arbios has been in the wine industry so long that for a
while he worked with Jim, our sales and training consultant in Prescott. In 1993 Bill and Susan
started producing Cabernet Sauvignon from Alexander Valley
grapes. The result he marketed eponymously with
the name Arbios Cellars. (This month you
are just going to have to look up “eponymous”.) One principle Bill
decided on was to produce 100% cabernet sauvignon no matter what the weather
did to the harvest. Given that, he has experimented with the remaining
parameters of winemaking to produce a very competitive and competitively priced
wine. In 2000 Bill and Susan decided to extend the principle of
100% varietal wines to other varietals. They decided to do so under the Praxis
Cellars name. “Praxis” derives from the same root as “practice” in
the sense of striving over and over for perfection while knowing that it will
never be fully achieved. Since launching the label, they have also found
“Praxis” is a moon of the Klingon home planet on Star
Trek and a verb for domination in an on-line vampire game. We have
brought the Merlot and Viognier into Arizona
so far and plan to have the Pinot Noir soon.
Rambling
Well, I guess the rambler rambled off. The last newsletter
was in May and here it is half past July already. We did have an
important milestone since the last Newsletter – Laurie and I took a week long
vacation together without having phone or internet access. Over the last several years Orangewood has grown beyond a hobby and
become a serious (well, kind of serious) business that required everyday work
to keep things rolling. It took six months of analysis, planning
and simplifying, but finally we took off for a week of drifting through the Grand Canyon on a raft. It was wonderful – so
wonderful that we drifted for a couple of weeks after we got home, too.
Well that’s my excuse for not writing sooner.
The Rambler
rambles on…
From
all of us at Orangewood Wines,
Richard
(newsletter writer) and Laurie (editor)
Orangewood
Wines