I am interested pretty much in anything from Brazil. I grew up part of my life in Rio de Janeiro and Brazilia when it became the capitol. I was there as a child of seven and eight years old in Brazilia's first two years of life as the famous buildings were being built, crawling and climbing them as a young, very impressionable young boy, speaking Portuguese with the workers , engineers, builders, climbing into the warehouse through a tiny window way up on one of the outside walls; and basically having the time of my life. So, as I said I am interested overall in anything about Brazil and VEEV was/ is no exception.
We sell the RIO/SOL and the MIOLO wines of Brazil - have for years now , and I am thrilled to have them and be able to share them with our Cleveland Park N.W. Washington D.C. customers. We do it seems have plenty of customers from Brazil and besides the Cachaca that we sell ( that is what people expect us to have ) we have some wine and now some VEEV and it is thrilling to have these as Brazil seems to be at the top - or approaching the top of it's game. And on top of that the Acai in the VEEV is also good for us? I love this!
" From deep in the of the Brazilian Amazon, the Acai berry is thought to be the world's preeminent superfruit. And VVEV is the world's first Acai spirit. ... blended with exotic ingredients, such as prickly pear and the Acerola cherry. Go to : www.veevspirits.com. It is produced and bottled by : VEEV Distillers, Rigby, Idaho.
The presentation was made to Ravinder Sharma and then to me and I was able to taste the VEEV one day at the store and liked what I tasted and heard and plans were made to bring it in and do an in-store-tasting. Both of these goals have been accomplished and we now have VEEV on our shelves for sale and all that is needed now is for more people to hear about it , taste it and tell their friends. It would also be a great idea to schedule another in-store VEEV Acai Spirits tasting. We have to work on that Ravi.
I just looked at my book on Rio De Janeiro ( called that ) written by Kurt Peter Karfeld and published in 1955. The title page reads : " Album com fotografas em cores, Introducao de Celso Kelly , Texto em portugues, ingles, frances e alemao ... edicoes melhoramentos and the text starts :
J A EXISTIA, ANTES DE NASCER ...
Pressentimento, atracao O navegante vinha de longa. O mar ainda era uma grande aventura. De Terras, por esses meridianos, havia noticia pobre de verdade e rica de sonhos e esperancas. Pau-brasil, prata, oura, cristais ...
How many of us speak or understand Portuguese? I would venture not many but for those few of you that do and that read this I added the part above to add some history and some perspective.
In an hour I am off to have lunch with a Brazilian lady Elisabete and her French Canadian husband Laurent. They invited us with our neighbors Matt and his Swedish wife Catarina to their home for lunch here in our neighborhood. It will be nice to see them again. Catarina and I went down to introduce ourselves three or so weeks ago.
A couple of days ago I told Ravinder Sharma that buys the liquor for our store that we needed to buy some more VEEV as we were almost out. he called our supplier and when our order came the next day the VEEV was marked " out of stock " and so that is a good sign that I interpret to mean that since we and our wholesaler are both out of VEEV temporarily that it is in fact selling and doing well.
We will have it soon again and start all over selling this new and exciting VEEV acai spirit / liqueur. Call us at : 202-363-4265 or email me at : anthony.quinn@clevelandparkwines to be sure that we have it back. Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn
P.S. : Sorry that the pictures are a bit fuzzy. I think that even still they give a good sense of the product VEEV and the energy and the enthusiasm that was present during the whole presentation. We were both excited and it shows. Cheers, TONY
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