A Note From Ali
Live Music @ Uncorked!!!

Well, I finally broke down. I decided after meeting Brian Chartrand and listening to his music that I would give him a chance to sing and play his guitar at Uncorked on Saturday, July 12th, from 7 to 10 pm. If the response is good, we’ll have him back to entertain us more often!!! I find his sound to be a cross between James Taylor and John Mayer—his voice is incredible! You all know how much room we have here at Uncorked, so if you are wanting to come in to enjoy the live entertainment, please make your reservation and we’ll hold a table for you! In the meantime, if you’d like to check out Brian’s music just go to: myspace.com/brianchartrand
Eat, Drink, Relax, Repeat…
Ali

July Wine Club!!!!!!!
Tues., July 15th
5:30-7:30 (Flow-through)

Well everyone, we had a tremendous turnout for our Wine Club in June!!! Thanks to all of you who came to our Tobin James tasting! We mixed things up a bit in June—not doing a Blind Tasting—and we are wondering if everyone likes the format better. SO……we are going to try the twist for July’s Wine Club, too! This month we will be tasting 4 wines from Bishop’s Peak Winery. Same scenario—taste all 4 and pick which 2 you like the best! Then take those 2 bottles home with you! Our wine selection will be:
• Bishop’s Peak Chardonnay (Edna Valley)
• Bishop’s Peak Pinot Noir (Edna Valley)
• Bishop’s Peak Syrah (Paso Robles)
• Bishop’s Peak “Rock Solid Red” (60%
Cabernet/30% Syrah/5% Petit Sirah/5% Tempranillo) (Paso Robles)

Toby Perry from Quail will be our guest wine guru (many of you know him already)

Same pricing --$40 for Wine Club and 20% off your food for the evening! Call to RSVP no later than Monday, July 14th, please! Ali or Alex @ 480)699-9230 or respond to this email.

Seating is limited to only 28 people, so make your reservation early!!!!!!!!

By The Glass

• Matanzas Creek Winery Sauvignon
  Blanc – Sonoma County
• Zenaida Cellars White Estate Cuvee
  (Chardonnay/Viognier) – Paso Robles
• ZC Red Estate Cuvee (Cabernet/Cab
  Franc/Syrah) –Paso Robles
• Fonseca 20 Yr. Tawny Port
• Taylor Fladgate 10 Yr. Tawny Port

By The Bottle

• Klinker Brick “Old Ghost” Old Vine
  Zinfandel ’05 – Lodi
• ZC Zephyr Estate Cuvee
  (Zinfandel/Syrah/Viognier) ’05 –
  Paso Robles

• Shocktop Belgian White Ale
• Deschutes Brewery "Cascade Ale"

We Take Reservations!!

Kids driving you crazy? Work stressing you out? Relationships got you down? Need a girls night out? Give us a call and we'll reserve your table for you!

Call Ali Amundson or Alex Nelson @ 480-699-9230

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Did You Know...?
The more expensive the wine, the better the perception

So say researchers at Stanford Business School and Cal Tech.  They assembled 20 adult test subjects, hooked them up to brain scanners, and had them sample five bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon, which were identified only by price. What the tasters didn’t know was that two wines appeared in the sampling twice, once with a low price and once with a high price.  When the tasters sipped the higher priced of the same wine, they displayed more neural activity in their medial orbitofrontal cortex, the area of the brain related to pleasures of taste and smell, than when they sampled the lower priced twin.  In other words, they preferred the more expensive to the less expensive bottle--even though they were tasting the same wine.   "What this study shows,” says Professor Antonio Rangel of Cal Tech, "is that the brain’s rewards center takes into account subjective beliefs about the quality of an experience.  If you believe the experience is better, ... the rewards center of the brain encodes it as feeling better."