Screwtop Zoom Wine Tasting

Screwtop Wine Bar is throwing their first Zoom wine tasting on Friday May 22 7pm. Their theme is "I Love Paris in the Springtime" with a new Wino Survival Pack. For $95 this pack includes:
Magic Door Champagne
Lot 33 Languedoc Rose
Beaujolais
Brodeaux
Cotes Du Rhone
D'Affnois Brie
Fresh Baguette
chocolates


Screwtop also offers food, wines and 12oz glass pours to go in a solo cup for carryout!


Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82964739302?pwd=Ni81TkRQZTAyanAxNVNzVE5yUzZ2Zz09
Meeting ID: 829 6473 9302
Password: 910788

Screwtop Wine Bar Memorial Day sale

Screwtop Wine Bar is offering 50% off any dine in purchase (no exclusions!) for all active duty and retired military tonight, Monday May 28. All you need is your military id card.  They are open from 5pm to 10pm tonight. Also available are $10 All-American Wine Flights.

Grateful Red free wine tasting tonight

Screwtop Wine Bar's sister store, Grateful Red, is having a free wine tasting tonight from 5 - 8pm. The new wine shop, located across from Whole Foods in Clarendon, is focusing on three Oregon wines tonight.

Grateful Red is in a soft opening phase now, so they are continuing to grow their selection. By Fall they should be stocked with anything you could ever want or need from a wine and gift perspective.

Screwtop Wine Bar "Born In The USA" class



This Saturday July 21, Screwtop Wine Bar is offering a "Born In The USA" wine tasting class. The event, offered at 1 or 3:30pm, promises to educate wine lovers in the lesser known American wines. The class is $40 and you can RSVP to save a spot to AmandaP@screwtopwinebar.com.

Screwtop Wine Bar & Red Hook Lobster truck

Last Saturday, Clarendon's Screwtop Wine Bar hosted a special dinner menu in association with Red Hook lobster truck. From about 4:30 to 6:30pm that day, the Red Hook truck was parked directly across from the restaurant. Patrons were encouraged to walk over to the truck and purchase a lobster or shrimp roll seperately, then to buy a beverage to accompany it from Screwtop. The restaurant offered suggestions of which wine and beers to go with which style Red Hook rolls.

The combination was fun, but I ended up still being hungry and needed to snack on Screwtop's light and delicious grilled cheese sliders. They menioned this is planned to be a recurring theme, and I highly recommend it next time they come around!

Suggested wine and beer pairings for the lobster rolls

Red Hook truck conviently located accross the street

Maine style lobster roll with Martinshof Gruner wine

Screwtop Wine Bar Grilled Cheese HH

Check out Screwtop Wine Bar tonight at 4pm for a free beer and cheese tasting. They will also be hosting a grilled cheese flight special for $9!

Free Wine Tastings at Screwtop Wine Bar

Dr Wino serving wine tastings to Clarendonites

This past Saturday Juanuary 28, Screwtop Wine Bar hosted a free wine tasting from 1-4pm.  Mrs. Amanda Page, known as Dr. Wino, poured a selection of two whites and two reds:

• Seeker Sauvignon Blanc $14.99
• Lobster Gruner Veltliner $13.99
• Obvio Malbec $8.99
• Avery Quinn Cabernet Sauvignon $13.99

Screwtop is hosting another wine tasting for Valentine's Day next month, on Feb 11th from 3-5pm. This Sweeetheard Wine Tasting features 16 wines, chocolates, cupcakes, and take homes for $50.

Cupcake wars continue in Clarendon

The battle for cupcake supremacy was heating up this past weekend, as competition between Clarendon's bakeshops was increased during the pre-Valentine's Day weekend.

First the newcomer Crumbs makes a delicious alliance with neighbor Best Cellars and features their mini cupcakes along side local chocolates in the free wine and chocolate tasting last Tuesday.

This was just a prelude to a popular joint venture cupcake and wine tasting on Saturday, which paired about five wines from Best Cellars' collection with five Crumbs' mini cupcakes.

Not to be outdone, Bakeshop on Fillmore Street fired back with its own champagne and wine tasting. Our local Bakeshop fought back against the Crumbs Empire by allying with neighbor Screwtop Wine Bar for a free one hour tasting on Sunday. According to their Twitter feed, there were no cupcake survivors by 2:14 pm.

The most important question still remains: for the future battles, which wine shop will ally with Red Velvet when they come to Clarendon?

Apologies to The Cupcake Blog for leaching the image, but that little tank themed cupcake was too cool not to post.

AAC and AFAC Charity Happy Hour with Screwtop Wine Bar

The Arlington Arts Center is hosting a holiday happy hour and raffle on Wednesday, December 8 from 5:30-7:30pm. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. One raffle ticket for each event ticket purchased. Raffle prizes include an AAC membership, tickets to an upcoming AAC happy hour, and a bottle of wine from Screwtop Wine Bar.

They are also having a holiday food drive for Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC), so bring non-perishable goods to the event! AFAC especially needs low-sugar cereals, cooking oil, canned meats, and low-sodium canned soups. You will receive one additional raffle ticket per non-perishable item you bring for the food drive.

Screwtop Wine Bar outdoor seating

I got the chance to try out Screwtop Wine Bar's new outdoor seating on Fillmore Street. While only four small tables, it provides some more much needed sitting space for the unique Clarendon venue. And you won't be seeing a sign with sandwich specials on the sidewalk anytime soon after all the drama lately.

I tried the red wine flight, which offered three small portions of different flavors ranging from fruity to darker and dryer. I always recommend trying the samplers at any venue that offers them (like Lyon Hall's beer flight), just because I'm usually indecisive and its an easy conversation starter.

The grilled cheese sliders where delicious, although slight in portions. Screwtop is great dating venue, has a nice wine and cheese selection, some good appetizers but its not going to be cheap. There menu is a little bit confusing and needs to be streamlined a little. Overall I'm very happy with what Screwtop offers to the local nightlife and hope to go back soon, or to take some of their wine classes once they resume after August.

Thanks to Jason's DC Foodies blog for the image and a very thorough review of Screwtop.

Screwtop Wine Bar Coming Soon

Once again, Paul has alerted me to another upcoming venue near the Zoso apartments and 1021 condos. A quirky little wine bar called Screwtop is headed our way thanks to Wendy Buckley.

Wendy's story of how she quit her six figure job to follow her dream of opening a small business in Clarendon was interesting enough to make AOL's homepage Monday.

She has an interesting strategy of trying to take advantage of the recession by going against the flow and opening a risky light commercial venue. I look forward to visiting Screwtop when the eventually move into 1025 N. Fillmore St.

Photo credit goes to Paul Moon again. Thanks!