Uncorked Restaurant and Wine Bar

If you're looking for CT's Best Wine by the GLASS....

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:02:00 -0400

Uncorked Wine-Restaurant-Bar

63 Memorial Rd.

West Hartford, Blue Back Sq

Happy Hour & Late Night Specials! Uncorked

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:18:10 -0400

Uncorked Wine-Restaurant-Bar invites you to join us 4pm to 6pm Sunday thru Friday & Late Nights:

Special Happy Hour Apps, Wine and Drink Specials!!
Thursday’s Live Entertainment 8:30-10:30

Uncorked Wine-Restaurant-Bar, 63 Memorial Rd., West Hartford, CT., Blue Back Square

Join Courtney/ Kiss 95.7 Couples Date Nite Tues. Aug. 23

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:51:00 -0400

Courtney will be here hosting (between 5-7pm) ”For the Love of Vino!” for an evening for ROMANCE. An evening of fun.

Uncorked will provide free appetizers!!

You and your date will have the opportunity to purchase special priced wine flights, wine tastings, drink specials. And if you stay for dinner….Our chef has planned a very special Three Course Prix-fixe menu for the evening. Stay for all of the events and have dinner!!

Go to Kiss957.com key word “Wine” to RSVP. This gets you entered for the drawing for a ($400. Value) couples Day at the SPA. Many prizes to be given away.

Award Winning Wine!

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:23:00 -0400

Uncorked Wine-Restaurant-Bar has proudly earned two recent Awards!

Advocates Best in Hartford Readers’ Poll 2011—Best Wine List
Connecticut Magazine as “Best of Connecticut” for 2011 BEST WINE BY THE GLASS

Many thanks to our loyal guests and Connecticut Magazine for recognizing us among the very best!

Join the Uncorked Text-To-Wine Club!

Fri, 27 May 2011 14:23:58 -0400

Hey Uncorked fans! Want to win a $100 gift Card to Uncorked? Text CHEERS to 37337 to enter! AND If you want to stay up to the minute on wine specials, happy hour specials and receive other exclusive deals like ticket giveaways and event information then text the word WINE to 37337 and join our wine text club!

What A Night At Uncorked!

Tue, 17 May 2011 21:20:45 -0400

What a night it was, this past Monday for our Three-Course Beer Pairing Dinner with the Ommegang Brewery! Thank you to everyone who was in attendance. We’re going to do another one real soon!

Congratulations to the Winner of Uncorked's April Giveaway!

Wed, 11 May 2011 11:53:50 -0400

Congratulations to Jessie Levesque, the winner of our April Giveaway! Jessie will receive the $100 Gift Card for the month of April. We’ll be giving another $100 Gift Card away for May as well… to enter all you have to do is come in to Uncorked and have dinner or drinks, and then fill out the Monthly Raffle Card. Cheers!

Were You Here To Taste These Wines?...

Sun, 08 May 2011 12:07:05 -0400

What a lineup we had for our Chardonnay Class on Saturday afternoon! Everyone who attended had a great time. Our next class will be on Saturday, May 21 and we’ll be tackling Pinot Noir in a big way! Stay connected with us by joining our email list, or by following us on Facebook and Twitter so that you get the details for this, and for future wine classes and workshops! Cheers!

Darren Litzie Jazz Group Live at Uncorked Tonight!

Fri, 06 May 2011 16:00:00 -0400

Hey Uncorked Fans, Happy Friday! Come check out the Darren Litzie Jazz Group, live at Uncorked tonight at 9:30!

Cheers!

Wine Classes at Uncorked

Wed, 04 May 2011 13:55:00 -0400

Fans and Friends -

Just a reminder that Uncorked is proud to being offering a series of weekly wine classes. Call 860-216-2620 for info on the next class.

Each class will have a unique theme, and feature five world-class, handpicked wines. The first class’s theme will be “The World of Chardonnay”, where we’ll delve into the various styles of the often enjoyed (and often misunderstood) noble varietal. Attendees can expect to learn about, and taste some very special examples of Chardonnay!

Reservations are STRONGLY encouraged for the class, due the extremely high level of interest there has been for wine classes here at Uncorked. To secure your spot (and perhaps to also make your Mother’s Day reservations!), call us anytime after 3PM, seven days a week. Please note that you’ll need a credit card to hold the reservation. The cost of most classes is $25-$30, all-inclusive.

We’ll see you there! Cheers!

Customer Feedback

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:09:45 -0400

Hey all -

We’ve been getting some great feedback from you here at Uncorked these past few weeks on our “Uncorked Monthly Give-Away” Surveys. Guests submit the surveys to enter to win a $100 Uncorked Gift Card for the month of May. Here are a few of the things our guests have said:

“Loved the food - LOVED our waiter - wine was transcendent.” - Monica

“This is a unique, great place with great wine, service, and food.” - Mary

“WE KEEP COMING BACK! WE JUST CAN’T HELP OURSELVES!” - Erin

Thank you, ladies!

And by the way fans, if you haven’t registered your email with us to be entered to win a $100 Uncorked Gift Card in May, and for other prizes every single month, you can do so very easily by putting your email into the “Mailing List” form on the right-hand side of our website! We’ll announce the winners at the beginning of every month.

Cheers!

Busy night at the Uncorked Bar…

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:09:45 -0400

Busy night at the Uncorked Bar…

Packed bar for David Cain! Live at Uncorked, right now.

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:09:32 -0400

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Packed bar for David Cain! Live at Uncorked, right now.

“The Big Salad”, live at Uncorked, right now.

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:17:21 -0400

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“The Big Salad”, live at Uncorked, right now.

Beautiful evening in West Hartford, come out to Uncorked to...

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:50:00 -0400

Beautiful evening in West Hartford, come out to Uncorked to relax with a glass of wine, and to hear some great live jazz vocals courtesy of “The Big Salad”!

Welcome to the new UncorkedCT.com!

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:38:04 -0400

Welcome, friends of Uncorked, to the brand-new UncorkedCT.com. We’re excited about our new site and the ways it will help us stay connected with you! You can find all sorts of fun and exciting information about Uncorked, and the world of wine at large, right here. Thanks, and see you soon!

We’ll fill this glass for you. Come join us at Uncorked.

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:12:00 -0400

We’ll fill this glass for you. Come join us at Uncorked.

The Undisputed King Of Bierzo

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:14:32 -0500

daverudman:

Bierzo, Spain.

Few wine regions command the respect and awe of the career Sommelier as does this titan of international winemaking denominations. Except for all of them. Right, basically all of them. It’s squarely between Moldova and Missouri on the “most obscure” and “least relevant wine” lists of regions.

Bierzo’s claim to fame these days is its production of the hipster varietal “Mencia”. For years, there was talk that Mencia either was, or was closely related to Cabernet Franc. Ampelography has demonstrated that the two are not related whatsoever, but the comparison gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect from the varietal. Earthy, lean wines with wild berry fruit.

Well I’m pretty geeky, so I have been very much in on the Mencia “revolution”, as Jancis Robinson calls it. It’s a pretty awesome thing, for a region to basically be completely resurrected. She points out it happened to Priorat about 15 years ago. Try buying Priorat wine now.

So it’s fun to get in on the ground floor and try some of the killer wines that will inevitably price you out in a few years. The first I had was back in Brooklyn in ‘08 - “Vina Caneiro” was it’s name. Consulting my ancient record of wine tasting, it had a tobaccoey cranberry thing going on that I liked. This one was actually from the nearby Ribiera Sacra. I kicked the tires on “Baltos” from Dominio de Tares not long ago. Sadly, 5 of the bottles in the case were badly flawed. The good bottles were just, good. But I wasn’t floored. Nor was I with a few others, “Avante” and “au Oro”. Was basically ready to chalk the whole thing up to “meh”.

Until this week. I have finally found the droids I’ve been looking for. In all of its glory:

“Petalos“ by Descendientes de Jose Palacios. First of all, this is one of the sexiest wine labels I have ever seen. Love it.

The wine was just sick. It changed into three different outfits just in the first 20 minutes of being open. I got a faint fennelly thing, with some very bitter baker’s chocolate at first, which turned into sappy black cherry and black raspberry with kind of a chocolate pudding note, and then about 15 minutes later we went back and I called out a new soy saucy note that we all nodded our smug, sober assent to. It was a real throwdown.

This is why Spain is still the KING of value in the wine world, and nowhere else even comes close to touching it, still. I am having trouble accomodating all of these awesome wines at my place, honestly. I’m pouring unbelievable stuff from regions like Toro, La Mancha, Catalyud, Carinena, and Jumilla. And that’s just red! Don’t get me started on my Verdejo fetish.

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Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:39:42 -0500