Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Creator is Back - Charles Smith Tasting!

Charles Smith Tasting
2009 Food & Wine Magazine Winemaker of the Year

Saturday September 11, 2010
11am -8pm
All Day Long!


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Only 14 Cases of The Creator are available - we bought everything available in NC!

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2008 The Creator
2008 Roma en Chamberlin
2007 Chateau Smith
2008 Boom Boom Syrah
2008 Eve Chardonnay
2009 Kung Fu Girl Riesling


The wine market is such a funny place. Each of us observers are confident that there are few new ideas; we will repeat certain platitudes ad nauseum: that the best way to make a small fortune in the wine business is to start with a large one; that only the largest wineries can garner any attention from the wholesalers; that you have to be lucky to get anywhere. Okay, I'm sticking with that last one.

You've got to be damn lucky, that's for sure, though as they say, you make your own luck. But a small winery in eastern Washington with no big marketing budget, no big budget at all in fact, has proven that maybe you can make it if you try, as Sly Stone used to sing. Charles Smith of K Vintners has more or less thrown the playbook against the wall and tried everything you can imagine: high end single vineyard wines, regional blends to a price point, purchased and/or blended wines with funny labels and goofy names, and maybe a few consulting gigs.

And Smith has succeeded, probably beyond his wildest dreams. His Kung Fu Girl Riesling is hot stuff, seemingly on every wine by glass list. His labels with black block printing on white, looking more like tattoos than wine labels, just keep proliferating: The Creator, Boom Boom Syrah, Chateau Smith, Kung Fu Girl, and Eve. His K Vintners wines remain powerful and delicious examples of Washington wines. And he did all with hard, honest work. Oh, yeah, and some luck.

Happy Tasting and we'll see you Saturday!

Doug Frost MS, MW
Master Sommelier & Master of Wine

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