201 SW 2nd Street Corvallis Oregon 97333 541-752-7418
August 16, 2006

Greetings Avalon Wine Club members!

We hope your summer has been relaxing and filled with excellent wine.  While we would have liked to send your summer wine club selections before now, it’s been too hot to ship wine around much of the country.  So, we’re cellaring your delicious, hard-to-get wines until the weather is cool enough to ship safely.

Oh, there are wonderful wines in store for you.  If you’re a member of our Oregon Reserve Pinot Noir Club, you’ll receive the rare 2004 Brickhouse Les Dijonnais and 2004 Black Cap for July (and our wonderful Wadenswil Clone Pinot noir feature from June, if it was too hot to send to your area earlier).  These are highly collectible wines that will benefit from some time in the cellar.  In the fall we’ll be sending stellar wines from Dusky Goose, St. Innocent, Hamacher, Sineann, and more!

For our Northwest Big Reds Club fans, July promises a Walla Walla rising star, Va Piano.  We featured two of Va Piano’s wines, the 2004 Syrah and 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon.  As an extra treat, we included one of favorite values from Andrew Rich, his 2003 Cabernet Franc.  June featured three wonderful “Ms”: Merlot Reserve from Mystic, Mourvedre from McCrea, and Malbec from Tyrus Evan.  In the fall we’ll be sending Big Reds from Mark Ryan, O-S, Betz, Owen Roe, and more!

The Oregon New Discoveries Club is always exciting for us, as there are so many up-and-coming wineries with worthy offerings.  Our June and July selections feature four absolute gems, the 2004 St. Innocent Temperance Hill Pinot noir and 2004 Klee Pinot noir (made by Roots wine maker Chris Berg), 2005 Capitello Pinot Gris, and 2004 Brandborg Bench Lands Pinot noir.  You can look forward to more New Discoveries from Belle Vallee, Mystic, 720 Cellars and more!

We’re getting thirsty just writing about these wines!  You can read much more about the wines and wine makers in the July Wine Club Newsletter.

Each month, we love to seek out and find the very best Oregon and Washington wines to share with you.  Please remember, we are always available by phone, e-mail, or in person to offer recommendations on wines and wine touring, or to set up personal tastings.  If we can ever be of service, you can reach Marcus at 541-752-7418 or marcus@avalonwine.com and Jean at jean@avalonwine.com.

Thank you for being a member of our wine club!

All the best,

Jean & Marcus

P.S. – Jean here – rather than attaching a PDF of the July newsletter, which so many email programs remove, we’ve created a new section of Avalon’s website just for Avalon Wine Club members.

If you go here:

http://www.avalonwine.com/wineclubs_Members-Page.php

You’ll find a soon to be password protected section of the site.

Username is: Avalon
Password is: wine

All of the Club newsletters for the last three years are posted as PDFs, and all of our email notices as well. In the future, we’ll post periodic announcements, letters to the club, and pre-release announcements of wines that are so limited, we are only able to offer them to Wine Club members.

I’m looking forward to sending you some wonderful wines this fall and winter, and am always interested in your likes and preferences. Please let me know what you’d like to see in the newsletters and on your website, and I’ll try to comply.

Happy end of summer!