READ US! WE HAVE FLAVOR, BOUQUET, COLOR AND BODY!

Reflecting how poets make instead of inherit language, the press is named after "meritage," a word created to describe the Bordeaux-style of wine-making that uses California-grown grapes. Meritage style combines the grapes of cabernet, cabernet franc and merlot to create a wine characterized by robustness in flavor, bouquet, color and body – symbolizing the passion underlying the vision of Meritage’s artists.
--ABOUT Meritage Press

Speaking of what folks should read, the reviews & engagements at the BRAND NEW Meritage Press Blog indicate that y'all should read Meritage Press' books!

And why not? creating the Meritage Press Blog made Moi stumble in internet-searching on this Boog City Focus on Meritage Press! Indeedy, our books are so passionate I as publisher can even dole out this rare respect to Poetry (hee)! Do check us out; we're here for you.

Speaking of reading, here also is Moi's latest Relished W(h)ine Update:

THE CITY SLICKER'S HARVEST (to date)
Twenty strawberries (Twenty? Sheesh....and that's why I grumble with envy over this part of the Plath/Hughes legacy...)


PUBLICATIONS
ENDGAMES, poetry by Marton Koppany (brilliant book!)

TROUBLE AND HONEY, poems by Jilly Dybka (Free download or inexpensive purchase HERE)

WOW WOW WOW WOW, wow poems by Kevin Killian

MOTHER MONTAGE by Dodie Bellamy

IMAGO by Joseph Legazpi

FACTS ABOUT THE MOON, poems by Dorianne Laux

SILK STRING ARIAS, poems (manuscript) by Mary Kasimor

EASTER SUNDAY, poems by Barbara Jane Reyes

PHILIP GUSTON: WORKS ON PAPER, Eds. Christoph Schreier and Michael Semff

FLOODING, art monograph by Richard Tsao

AROUND OUR HOUSE, memoir by Henry & Janice Holt Giles

THE OLIVE HARVEST: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, OLD TREES, AND OLIVE OIL by Carol Drinkwater

THE GREAT MAN, novel by Kate Christensen

LULU MEETS GOD AND DOUBTS HIM, novel by Danielle Ganek

ODD HOURS, novel by Dean Koontz


WINES
1985 Dom Perignon
1978 Gaja Sori Tilden
1971 Penfolds Grange
1989 Lafleur
1983 Guigal La Mouline
1953 Lafite
2006 Kistler chardonnay Le Nuisette
2004 Giacomo Bologna Barbera D'Asti Brico dell Ucc___
2004 Burgess merlot
1985 La Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 904
2004 Peter Michael chardonnay Ma Belle Fille
2002 Tofanelli charbono NV
1973 La Rioma Alta Centenario 1890-1990
1999 Willliams Selyem Pinot Noir Rochioli Riverblock Vineyard
1997 R.B.J theologicum
1996 Gevrey-Chambertin