With the temperatures still high I will refresh your palate this month with 6 of my best white wines :

2002 Limoux Domaine Delmas.
Our award-winning Chardonnay from Southern France. 2003 Bourgogne Chardonnay, Guy Bossard.
A classic with the exceptional power of the 2003 vintage! 2003 Marsanne, Domaine de Clairac.
A varietal rarely seen by iteself, enhanced by oak aging. 2003 Sauvignon Blanc, Richmond Plains (NZ).
An amazing fiesta of citrus fragrances from Down Under! 2004 No Sulfites Added Muscadet, Château la Fessardière
Round and soft on the palate with a little spritz to keep it fresh!
If you don't like the CO2, just shake the bottle a bit!

2005 Pinot Grigio, Madonna Estate.
A great Napa winery's interpretation of this Italian varietal. Powerful and complex.

I have regrouped this delicious bunch under the name The White Wave and you can get it until Labor Day for $120 only! and pay NO Shipping Charge, saving an average of $25!

For the Chardonnay lovers who enjoy a full body wine with an almost silky texture I have kept one of our last month's Special. You can still grab our great offer for 6 of our famous 2002 Limoux Domaine Delmas just for the price of the wine!

Finally I am offering red wine lovers a chance to stock up on the last bottles of our very nice Château Bousquette 2001. Five years of aging is about perfect for the type of wines Château Bousquette is known for: the tannins soften, the complexity develops, the wine is mature! Just pay 6 bottles at the regular price and save an average of $25 on shipping! (20 packs on sale only!) In each case you simply pay for the wine, we pay for the SHIPPING!

Enjoy your Summer!

Why bother praising our wines when our clients do it so well for us?

Here is one friend from Illinois :
"I must say, once again, what a difference I experience with your wines! I believe we never know what kind of reaction our body has to chemicals until we do not ingest them and then see the difference. When I try to put it into words, I would say that the wines are smooth, I just don’t have that “funny feeling” in the body or fullness in my head that other wines give me. It is truly amazing to me! I am one of those people who, when I find something truly wonderful, tells everyone about the new “find”. I’ve forwarded your website to about 7 people now, all wine lovers."
Mary-Jo

And another one from California:
"Hello Michel,
I sent my brother and his wife wine for Christmas. To my delight, they had the most wonderful things to say about the organic wine selection. They were very impressed and truly enjoyed the gift. Visiting this past weekend, we shared a bottle of the Syrah and it was amazing!"
Sina Scerba
Back to Earth Organic Catering

And finally:
I wanted to take a moment to let you know that not only am I impressed by the quality of the wines you have to offer but I am excited to be working with a company that has such a devotion to the promotion of organic practices in grape growing and wine making. I am always enthusiastic to point out your wines to my customers as they are unique and represent great value. I look foward to opening more eyes and palates to your offerings.
Adrian
Whole Foods Wine Buyer

Dr Mic visiting with M. Constant, 82, the owner and winemaker of the Domaine de Bajac wines.

From Pam:
How do you know if it is a "good year" if you don't follow wine growing news? Or is the year even important when you are tasting wine?
Dr Mic:
The truth is, even if you follow wine news they will tell you that every year is a great vintage! It is easy to understand that no one in the industry is ready to say: "This is a bad year, stop drinking!". It usually takes a few years before the truth about a vintage emerges, by which time 90% of that vintage will have been drunk. But really, for most wines in most regions, modern day technology will erase the differences, mask the imperfections and put out of the market the non marketable wines. Since there is way more wine produced than consumed you can be sure that only the best make it to your table! The vintage is a factor when you start buying wines that are probably out of the common man's (pocketbook) range and where it can make the difference between a good wine and a fabulous wine. This is the case essentially in Bordeaux where the weather can vastly differ from one year to the next. It is true nevertheless that for a given wine each vintage will have its own characteristics and flavors. And this is probably more so with organic wines which will reflect more closely their natural conditions.

From Helen:
"What does a wine trailing in a glass, I believe known as legs, have anything to do with its quality? Does it mean anything, does it tip you off to age, flavor, etc?"
Dr Mic:
Legs or tears are traces of wine sticking to the glass when one swirls it around the glass. Glycerol, one of the alcohols present in the wine, is responsible for that effect (you know about glycerine, don't you?). A wine rich in that alcohol will probably be smooth and round on the palate. Since it is a solvant for a number of volatile compounds, it will also harbor a richness of flavors. Beyond that....!

From Charlotte:
"Does sniffing first affect the "taste" in the mouth? I suspect it does, but perhaps you can advise the sensitivity transmission."
Dr Mic:
The 4 or 5 savors felt through the tongue (sweet and salty, acid and sour, savory being a recent discovery) go through a different neural pathway. On the other hand, the nerve endings in the upper part of the nose go directly to the brain and can discern thousands of different chemical compounds! In other words the nose (your olfactory tract) will be responsible for the biggest part of your sensory evaluation of the wine.

E Magazine is going to publish an article featuring us in September. This is great publication with an interesting newsletter (click here to subscribe). In their July 12 issue there was an article on the benefits and drawbacks of ethanol use as well as one on the uncertain future of the traditional wine growing regions due to global warming.

Organic Excellence is a superb site dedicated to providing CHEMICAL FREE products! Her founder Cynthia Drasler also hosts a Radio show called Contact Talk Radio that you might want to check out if you know that its motto is "Consciousness in Action."
We did a great interview with her on Organic Wines and you can listen to it on

Finally, we edited our first version of our Winetasting 101 Video. Frankly, if we were thrilled by the prospect of that production we were less so by the end result which clearly shows we can't be experts in all areas or at least that we need to gather some new skills! In any case we will be happy to share it with those of you who will look at it with some degree of compassion. Just send me an email and I'll give you the secret code!

COMPUTER MAINTENANCE FOR DUMMIES
For those of you who are still new to the computing world I remember cursing my computer and the makers of such supposedly magnificent tools for not handing down some very simple advices to keep them running somewhat satisfactorily. Here are some very basic ones like the ABC of cleaning up the innards of the beast! (Windows XP, Pentium III)

A/ CLEAN UP your disk drive.
Depending on usage you want to regularly erase unnecessary clutter from your hard drives. It takes a few seconds and frees useful space even though it is less of an issue with recent big drives.
How to? : Go to Start/Programs/Accesories/System Tools/Disk Cleanup and click OK (If you have to select a drive it means that you have partitioned it and are way past this advice!). Then select the various boxes and launch the cleanup which should go pretty fast unless you have never done it before!

B/ GET RID OF SPYWARE and all other little programs that can some times seriously slow down your system. These have been implanted to follow you around and frankly, you don't need them!
How to? : Go to the Lavasoft website, maker of a FREE software that gets rid of the unwanted programs and download it. Then run it after downloading the latest updates, you will be surprised to see how many things it finds on your machine! Select them and click them to oblivion! Run the program once a month after updating it.
WARNING: this program is recommended by numerous sites and it has worked very well for me; however, as with any download, you should thoroughly explore their website before making the decision for yourself. This is merely a happy user's suggestion.

C/ DEFRAGMENT YOUR DRIVE! After you've cleaned it and cleared it of unwanted presences, put some order in the big mess! This will help your computer tremendously to find the files it needs in the shortest possible time.
How to? : Go to Start/Programs/Accesories/System Tools/Disk Defragmentation and launch it. It will analyze your disk and recommand (or not) the operation. Again, if you've never done it, it will take some time! Do it once a month more or less. You should see some pretty good improvements on your system.

I am not a computer engineer nor is this a tech newsletter so why am I doing this? Simple! Computer runs smooth and fast --> Client happy has the time to visit my website --> Client thankful buys plenty of wine to rejoice!

I remember the time it took me to acquire some basic computer skills and I suppose some of you may be at the same level I used to be! I suspect that most of our readers have better things to do than taking the time to understand why these damn machines do not work as promised! I'd be happy if I can save some of you a bit of aggravation! Call me if you're stuck: 888-326- 9463.

Model after this young fellow from Asia who did not wait long to make sure his favorite pet is clean and shiny! How would you like that?
Clearly this one has a different perception of the Garden of Eden!

We love to help you make your choice. Call us with your special needs, we will do the best to satisfy them.
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Dr Mic
Wine Selection

Veronique Raskin
President

Organic Wine Company
415-256-8882