Baristas Cafe and Pub

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326 Main Street, New Martinsville, WV 26155, 304-455-5410

E-mail: yevuta@suddenlink.net

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – JRR Tolkien

Wine tasting this Sunday at 6 p.m. Thirteen different reds.

Beer Club t-shirts are in. Time to drink some good beer. Should have a nice surprise tomorrow.

Flying Dog Beers on tap and in bottles

Diane has ordered the t-shirts. Some lucky and determined people will some be sporting them.

The Baristas Beer Club T-Shirt is moving at our usual glacial pace but we've been bumped by our artist in residence, Sami Ternyik. As usual, she's come up with a work of genius.

Hold my beer and watch this:

Sixteen of Barista's esteened testers filed reports on the flight of 10 dry white wines. Here's what we liked:

Fifth place: Kunde Estate Grown Chardonnay 2007, Sonoma County, California; $17.99.

Fourth place: Spier Sauvignon Blanc Private Collection 2006, Stellenbosch, South Africa; $19.99 (It's rare for us to like South African wines.)

Third place: Excelsior Chardonnay 2009, South Africa; $9.99 (What? A second South African wine at the same tasting?)

Second place: Courtney Benham Gewürztraminer 2008, Mendocino County, California; $8.99, the cheapest wine of this flight. (Maybe we should seek more of these?)

First place: Pat & Hall Chardonnay, Napa Valley, California; $39.99; the most expensive wine of this flight. (Overwhelmingly the favorite; but how do we explain the second place wine at less than a quarter of this price?)

Pat Wobig pegged Tester-of-the-Month, and called for Chardonnays on Sunday, August 1st.

The Captain of our all-time good guy team.

Beer on tap

Northern LIghts IPA

Y-ling porter

Dortmunder