Finding wine bargains has just gotten easier
ELEGANCE ON
THE CHEAP
TRAVIS GENY
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ing all the knowledge you all have
gained in the past few columns, I’m
sure that a least a few of you might
have had the chance to wow Mom
and Dad with your wine savvy and
maybe may have even had the
chance to use your parents’ green
for more expensive wines.
But alas, here we all are back at
school and back on a budget. Well,
have I got the solution for you! In
my various travels around Eugene,
I have found one place that is al
ways a reliable source for cheap
and quality wine.
Sundance Wine Cellars, at 2470
Alder St., offers the very best in
wine selection, helpful and knowl
edgeable staff, and above all, value.
No matter when I have visited Sun
dance, I have always found the staff
courteous and helpful, no matter
what my budget. And have never
had a bottle I didn’t enjoy. But a lit
tle more about the place itself:
Here you will find probably the
biggest selection of wines in town.
The store features wine from virtu
ally every wine-making region in
the world, and it has a large selec
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tion of local wines, as well as wine
from around the state. As you walk
into the store, you will notice that
aside from the wine separated by
region, you will find wines that
have been set aside as bargains.
Here you will be able to find per
fectly acceptable bottles for as little
as $4. Of special note are the 1992
Castelle ’ll Villa Chianti Classico
and the 1999 Sangiovese San Gior
gio. Or how about a white? You
might try the Leonard’s Crossing
1998 Chardonnay. Whatever your
taste, be adventurous; this is defi
nitely the place to do it.
“We try to get the best wines in
all price ranges,” said Steve Baker,
manager of Sundance.
But to really open your horizons,
go attend the free wine tasting of
fered every Friday and Saturday
from 4 to 6 p.m.
If you find yourself in a bind for
time this holiday season and you
can’t get to the wine cellar for an
hour to get what you really want,
then I have yet another suggestion:
Trader Joe’s, at 85 Oakway Center.
This store has it all, from a quick
gourmet to holiday treats, and yes,
good cheap wine. Upon receiving
my Traders Joe’s bulk mailing, I
quickly noticed there were several
wines on sale for just less than $3.
Were they any good? “Who
cares?” I thought, “I can afford $3
for wine! ” However, I was not dis
appointed, as the Belle Sirene
Chardonnay was quite nice. I also
grabbed the Merlot and Cabernet
Sauvignon from the same vine
yard. Three bottles of good wine for
the price of what would usually be
one is a good deal anywhere.
However, supply seemed to be
limited so hurry on over.
Travis Geny is a senior pre-journalism
major. He advocates safe and responsible
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Sundance Wine Celiacs combines a great selection ofwines from all over the world, helpful and knowledgeable staff, and value to give
you the most bang for your wine dollars. Sundance also offers free wine tastings every Friday and Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.
Holiday decorating options
putting pressure on singles
By Eric Edwards
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Temperatures are cooling down,
and Thanksgiving has past, which
means that single people have only
one thing on their minds: “Should
I decorate for the holidays?”
When we lived with our folks, it
was easy. One day, you would
come home from school, and the
entire house would be decked
with seasonal cheer.
Your parents would go out,
spend $25 to $50 on a tree, plant it
in a glorified water bowl for the
cat, top it with $300 worth of
shiny, painted glass and then beg
for February to come so they could
drag it to the curb.
But it is never that easy for the
single person — mostly the single
man — to gear up for the holiday
spirit. Apart from buying the holi
day sampler of beer from the gro
cery store, we are pretty much
adrift in an endless sea of other
people’s good cheer without so
much as a cheese log to cling to.
This is not to say that the sin
gles’ set doesn’t enjoy the holidays.
When I moved into my first
apartment 1 million years ago, I
tried to get myself all geeked up for
my first Christmas as an “adult.” I
went out and bought a red, ball
shaped ornament and a string of
white lights that, when put on the
proper setting, blinked.
I carefully hung the ornament on
my ficus tree and placed the lights
around the border of the window.
It created a true Christmas ambi
ence in the tiny place.
Christmas came and went that
year and, sentimental, lazy ol’ me,
I just couldn’t find the time to take
down the ornament or the lights.
By mid-July, my two holiday ac
couterments had become the
mainstays of my decor. I truly be
lieve that had I not moved out of
that apartment, the ornament and
the lights would still be on display.
Most of the single women I
know are a little more attentive to
keeping with the holiday spirit.
My friend Nikki plans her entire
year around the night she puts up
her Christmas tree and drowns it
in decorations. Of course, she lives
with two girls and so is probably
egged on to achieve new heights of
holiday spirit each successive year.
Very few guys would prompt their
buddy to put more effort into the
holidays than spiking the eggnog.
Single women like Nikki and
happy couples everywhere are the
reason for events like the Festival
of the Trees, which was held a cou
ple of weeks ago at the Orlando
Museum of Art.
For this event, the museum was
stripped bare of anything that re
sembled art and stuffed wall-to
wall with Christmas trees. The
place looked like an arboretum
with a wet bar and a band. People
milled about these well-fashioned,
if somewhat expensive, trees and
tried to figure out how they could
make a tree like that at home.
Then after a few Manhattans,
when they realized they could
never make a tree like that at
home, they opened their wallets
and in the name of charity pur
chased one of these collisions of
art and nature.
There were trees with old-fash
ioned themes, zoo themes, Grinch
themes and even sports themes.
But even in a season of Yuletide
joy, the single man needs more
practical fare.
For example, a tree trimmed
with pistachio nuts and beef jerky
would never go out of style, and a
wreath constructed entirely out of
Super Bowl tickets keeps the holi
day spirit alive until the end of
January.
Some people believe that the
fake tree is the answer for the sin
gle person, but I stand on firm
ground when I say that disposabil
ity is a premium for people with
little storage space, and you can’t
beat a real tree for disposability.
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