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ROUGE! Every Friday Night

gina — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:36:57 +0000

Friday & Saturday Wine Tastings

daniela — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:15:01 +0000

Our wine tastings are held every Friday & Saturday from 8-9 p.m. The cost is $35 per person + tax and gratuity, which includes three full glasses of wine and three hand selected food pairings. This is not your average wine tasting…be prepared for a fun and edgy experience with one of our two in-house sommeliers! Their tactless and outrageous tastings will have your guests talking about Syrah for weeks! And no two tastings will have the same experience, so come often. There are only 12 spots available and reservations fill up quickly so email jessie@syrahwineparlor.com or call Jessie Pollastrini at 858.437.3985 today to check availablity for your date.

This weeks theme: Spanish Wines. Enjoy a tasting with the Sommelier’s strongest region. Adam loves him some Spanish wines.

SPECIALTY TASTING INFORMATION:

Private Tastings:

Syrah offers a private tasting experience! Get your friends together and pick your own tasting theme to be hosted by one of our two in-house sommeliers. Private tastings on Friday and Saturday nights require a minimum of 12 reservations and are hosted at our 12 foot candle lit tasting table.

Private tastings are also offered on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays! Off-day tastings are a great way to experience all that Syrah has to offer. Enjoy the same fun and edgy tasting experience on your own time. Private tastings on off-days are $40 per person plus tax and gratuity and offer 3 full glasses of wine (you can even pick your own theme to tie the wines together) and 3 food pairings. Email jessie@syrahwineparlor.com to check availability for your tasting party.

Reserve Tastings:

To celebrate the release of our new reserve menu, Syrah is now offering reserve tastings! At $100 per person plus tax and gratuity, your party can experience some of the world’s best wines! Our reserve list offers a variety of reds and whites from France, Australia, Italy, Spain and good ol’ USA that top the charts in flavor profile. Experience the wonder of these super expensive wines and learn a bit about why they are worth $100+ per bottle. (Minimum reservation of 3 spots for 3 wine tasting; 2 spot tastings available for 2 wine tasting.)

Spirits Tastings:

Don’t like wine? Don’t worry. Syrah offers spirit tastings! Both of our sommeliers are certified mixologists and give the same outrageous and unexpected atmosphere to spirit tastings that have made our wine tastings so popular. Don’t just taste the spirits, live them! We offer tastings in tequila, scotch, whiskey, vodka and gin. Pick one spirit and taste 3 different styles (with food pairings, of course!) or choose 3 different spirits and do a mixed tasting. Spirit tastings are $45 per person plus tax and gratuity for 3 tastings…or if you are serious about your spirits, up the ante and do a 4 spirit tasting with 4 pairings for $55 per person plus tax and gratuity.

Beaujolais Nouveau Event

gina — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:30:28 +0000

The celebration for this year’s Beaujolais harvest went exceptionally well. Check out this video of the San Diego event.

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Tandum Bachelorette Special: Dinner and Drinks!

gina — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:01:32 +0000

Planning a night out for your best friend’s bachelorette party? Take advantage of our dinner and drinks special with the Melting Pot Fondue Restaurant. Have your choice of two cheese fondues (if you’re feelin’ spicy try the Fiesta cheese), salads and two chocolate fondues for the Melting Pot’s bachelorette special. Bring your dinner receipt down a single flight of stairs, and get a $100 discount on a table minimum at Syrah.

Reservations made separately.

Royal Loyalties!

gina — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:05:47 +0000

Are you our best VIP? Do you have Jessie’s number on speed dial? If not, you should! Become part of our VIP loyalties program just by booking one VIP table. Each month every table receives our Jack Cards which let’s you and one of your friends skip the line any time for the entire month! With every VIP table you book, you receive higher cards with better rewards. Queens get $50 off of any bottle service item. Kings get $100 and Ace’s get a whopping $150 off!

Email our VIP hostess Jessie at jessie@syrahwineparlor.com or give her a call at 858.437.3985 to begin your VIP adventure.

Fun Wine Quotes

daniela — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:19:56 +0000

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.”
Charles Edward Montague
“Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”
Samuel Johnson
“I like Champagne, because it always tastes as though my foot’s asleep.”
Art Buchwald
“Wine is a food.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Wine can be considered with good reason as the most healthful and the most hygienic of all beverages.”
Louis Pasteur
“The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.”
Louis Pasteur

“Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night. — Charles Baudelaire, French poet and critic
“My dear girl, there are some things that are just not done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ‘53 above the temperature of 38° Fahrenheit.” — James Bond in Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger
“Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1771
“Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary.” – Babylonian Talmud: Baba Bathra
“Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.” — Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 9:10

“What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?” — W.C. Fields

“The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learnt to cultivate the olive and the vine.” — Thucydides

“We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night. — Charles Baudelaire

“I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.” — Voltaire

“If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.” — Clifton Fadiman

Wine Trivia

gina — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:45:30 +0000

Mosel Germany is known for exceptional Riesling. Be careful, these Rieslings aren’t so sweet. The spiking acidity can burn right through your throat!

Austria make some of the world’s best Gruner Veltliner. It is an herbaceous white with a different kind of kick.

Hungary has been making wine for millennia! Tokaji is their world class dessert wine often imitated by other cool climate regions.

There are 54 appellations in the region of Bordeaux.

There are 5 first growth vineyards in Medoc; they are Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, Chateau Margaux, Chateau LaTour, and Chateau Haut-Brion.

The appellation Sauternes is famous for exceptional botrytis dessert wines.

Sauvignon Blanc is a classic Bordeaux varietal, often blended with Semillon.

New Zealand put itself on the wine map by creating some of the worlds greatest Sauvignon Blancs.

Mosel, Germany, is known for its world quality Rieslings.

In the Medoc Region of Bordeaux, the left bank of the Gironde river produces mostly Cabernet dominant blends, while the right bank produces mostly Merlot.

Northern Rhone produces only one red varietal, Syrah.

Southern Rhone red wine is predominantly Grenache dominant blends, often with Syrah and Mourvedre.

New Birthday Special

daniela — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:55:45 +0000

Is it your birthday month?

If so, come in and get a bottle of skyy for $125 + tax & $50 gratuity. To make reservations e-mail Jessica Pollastrini, our VIP hostess, at vip@syrahwineparlor.com.

You must show ID to get this special and it is NOT valid on Friday and Saturday nights.

Lights Out Event

daniela — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 05:23:47 +0000

Did you miss our 2nd Annual Lights Out Event on Thursday March 24, 2011? If so, don’t worry there will be another soon enough!

Our resident sommelier, Adam Stemmler, picked three organic wine labels to showcase throughout the evening to go with the soothing candlelight and celebrate the importance of eco-friendly and sustainable living in style. The best part? It was complimentary.

Click here to find out a little more information about the event.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

daniela — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:54:53 +0000

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Event 6-10 p.m.

Starting in April we will be doing a monthly charity event with Stay Classy (stayclassy.org)

Mark your calendars for our first monthly charity event!

Thursday April 28th come support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. There will be a live music from 6-8 p.m., a raffle with so many great prizes, and a $10 suggested donation at the door that includes a complimentary glass of wine. Come join us and drink for a good cause!

Please RSVP to info@syrahwineparlor.com

More details to be announced soon…

If you can’t make the event and wish to donate money to the cause please go to www.syrahapril.stayclassy.org