:: raises hand :: I haven’t been able to participate in recent weeks because I’ve been forced at gunpoint to go on a “training regimen” diet type thing. But I should be able to take part better by the end of August when I’m allowed to eat and drink merrily.
I have been following the picks though.
P.S. The spreadsheet is awesome. Helps me to catch up.
Another vote for skipping to the next active member. We can always reinsert anyone skipped back into the next spot should they become active again.
Maybe for the future weeks, when one member is named you also name the next in line (placed in the warm-up position).
WhyNot has been active today in other strings. I have sent an e-mail as a heads up that we are awaiting a selection (and we’re thirsty).
Received an e-mail response from WhyNot
Jodi, please dial up the next one
Wow, a life without wine. How…sad. 
You offered to make a pick, so… make a pick! I need a drink!
By the power vested in me by psycat90, my pick this week is Beringer White Zinfandel!
Wait, no. Stop looking at me like that. But that is the type of look I get when I drink this wine. Luckily, that just means more for me! This week’s pick is:
2006 Adelsheim Rose, a Willamette Valley Rose of Pinot Noir. Here at their website you can find a description:
My one worry about picking this wine is that it may not be available everywhere. They only produced 604 cases of the 2006, but since it is a rose, it doesn’t tend to stick around for long; they may not need to produce much since it is not a year-round wine, traditionally. I found it at Mondo Vino, a small wine store locally, and also at Applejack, which is just about the biggest liquor store evah. Prices ranged from $19 at the small store, to $13.99 on sale at Applejack.
If you cannot find this wine, pick another rose, but ask for help. This is a medium-bodied, non-sweet rose, made from the leavings of Pinot pressings, so any wine similar should be OK (especially one from Oregon). This is, so I hear, an increasingly common practice, and roses are starting to shrug off their “wine for girls” image and becoming more serious contenders for your drinking dollars. There are some good wineries getting into the rose business now (including Robery Sinskey, whose Vin Gris of Pinot Noir I picked up last week and am keeping for a bit; they made very few cases).
Serve it chilled (a little less than you would a white).
Necros, I think you are the next active member after WhyNot (legalsnugs has not joined in since January) Please proceed or “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” 
Oh, I see you already did - clapping hands with glee
This should be good. It’s been really hot hear lately, and our local paper devoted it’s Wednesday Wine section to Rosé – seems like as good a time as any. Many of my wine snob friends won’t even try that type of wine, but there’s some perfectly good stuff out there. Rosé it is!
Oh, your wine snob friends will all be drinking it soon enough. Rosé is super-up-and-coming-trendy right now. You’re on the cutting edge! 
The fact that it’s “trendy” will ensure they don’t drink it. 
BTW, here’s the article I was referring to if anyone has trouble finding this wine and wants some other suggestions. I’ve found her column to be quite good, and I’ve never been disappointing following her advice. (Registration is probably required for the newspaper’s web site.)
Alas, I won’t be able to participate this time around. That wine isn’t being sold in Quebec.
Yay! I’ve probably gone through a couple of cases of pink wines since spring, it’s one of my favorite spring/summer wines and a favorite for camping/picnics (I just had 2 from France while camping over the weekend that were incredible.)
Unfortunately I won’t be able to find the Adelsheim in my area (I called the distributor and asked for a retailer, she said there are none around here with that particular wine, oh well.)
I do have about a dozen or so to pick from on the rack. I’ll see what I have and maybe hit the store up and look for a Willamette Valley. I know I have at least a couple Oregon, but I don’t think any are specifically WV.
And after a day like today, I really do need that drink.
Bummer. Looks like The Henry Wine Group in Benecia (that’s at least vaguely Bay Area, right?) distrubutes Adelsheim, but perhaps not this particular one.
Funny, I thought with your location, you’d be able to find pretty much any wine in the world! 
It is, that’s who I called. No dice.
No problem, I picked up a bottle of the 2006 Robert Sinskey Vin Gris of Pinot Noir since you mentioned that one as well. It’s chiling now.
As a Wine Club lurker, I’d love to see, on the spreadsheet, some of the tasters’ comments on characteristics of the chosen wines. To, you know, get me all fired up and excited about trying some of the past selections.
Hehehe. I know I’m kinda geeky into this and all by even creating the spreadsheet, but perhaps not that geeky. You’ll just have to go back to the old threads for reviews.
Also, I started the thing for my own reference really, but since it seems to be popular, there’s no reason for me to be the only person able to edit it.
Jodi, and well, heck, any other participants really, if you want to have access to edit, just shoot me a gmail and it’s all yours too. My gmail address is in my profile.
Local supplier had the Adelsheim Pinot, but no Rose. I made an alternate selection of Kestrel Rose 2005 from Kestrel View Estate Vineyard in Prosser, Washington. Figured I could at least stay in the Northwest Region.
I struck out completely with the Adelsheim. I looked for something close and came up with Eye of the Toad 2006 Sonoma County dry pinot noir rose from the Toad Hollow Winery. It is chilling now.