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Tuesday Quick Sip – 2006 Papapietro Perry Peter’s Vineyard Pinot Noir
2006 Papapietro Perry Peter’s Vineyard Pinot Noir Wine Information – Appellation: Russian River Valley Grape: 100% Pinot Noir Oak program: 11 months in 50% new French oak and 50% 1st and 2nd use Alcohol: 14.25% Price: $49 Production: 1200 cases My Tasting Notes – Nose: yam, violet, cedar, blackberry Taste: plum, currant, cedar, violet, peppercorn, [...]
Drinking extremely well – 1999 B.R. Cohn Olive Hill Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Once again my job as store manager of a wine shop has provided me the opportunity to taste some fabulous wine. About a week ago, we opened up the 1999 B.R. Cohn Olive Hill Estate Cabernet Sauvignon ($96) to see how it was drinking. Well, I am here to say that it is drinking extremely [...]
A Krazy visit to KAZ Winery and Vineyard
We visited Kaz Vineyard and Winery on our first day in Sonoma and it was by far the smallest winery that I have visited in California. Producing around 1000 cases on average, Kaz focuses on small lot bold red blends and unique grape varietals all with their own zany Kaz twist. Owner and winemaker Richard [...]
Visiting C. Donatiello in the Russian River Valley
After the Wine Bloggers Conference finished up on Sunday, Joel Quigley of Paige Poulos Communications invited us up to C. Donatiello winery in the Russian River Valley for a private tasting. On hand to taste were Joe from 1WineDude, Lenn from Lenndevours, Becky from Smells Like Grape, Nick from Wine Scholarship, Thea from Luscious [...]
Nothing Small About this Petite Sirah
*disclaimer: I received the bottle for review from the California Wine Club Also sorry for the cheesy title, it was all I could come up with, haha! Having had the Sauvignon Blanc from Pedroncelli a couple of times, and liking it quite a bit, I was excited to see that the California Wine Club sent [...]
Wine Review – Moon Mountain Cabernet
Moon Mountain Vineyards (not the original name) has a long history of being bought and sold, including various name changes that date back well into the early 1900’s, to the beginning of Sonoma Valley’s winemaking history. Farmed primarily for Cabernet Sauvignon grapes in the 70’s, the grapes were sold to big name wineries such as [...]
Wine Tasting – 2003 Ferrari-Carano Sangiovese
Megan and I picked this up just over a year ago, on our first day of our 2006 Napa/Sonoma Trip. This was from the limited release tasting that we participated in, that I highly suggest you do if you give Ferrari-Carano a visit. A bit of background on the wine – The 2003 Sangiovese was [...]
2007 Sonoma Vintage Looking Good
So back in August I posted about the optimism for the 2007 Napa vintage. (Click here to read that one) A new article on Wine Business dot com gives the same great news for the Sonoma 2007 harvest. Check out the article. Here are a few highlights: Low winter rainfall Smooth steady growing season Cool [...]
Wine Tasting – 2005 Seghesio Old Vine Zinfandel, Sonoma County
We received this bottle in one of our wine club shipments from Seghesio. Seghesio has a great tasting room in the heart of the Sonoma Valley just outside of Healdsburg. We made a stop by there tasting room the last time we were in Sonoma, and decided to sign up for the wine club. Click [...]
Wine Tasting: 2004 Imagery Estate Sunny Slope Merlot
Megan and I received this wine as part of our Imagery Estate Wine Club shipment earlier this year. Each shipment contains two bottles of wine that are usually only offered at the winery (as was this Merlot) and get four shipments a year. We visited them when we were on our Napa and Sonoma trip [...]
Day 2 – Napa Valley After waking up and heading for a run in the Sonoma Valley Statepark, just down the road from our lodging in Glen Ellen, we headed to the GlenEllen Grocery for a small to-go breakfast and a few bottles of water for theday ahead. Day 2 was our day to explore [...]
Napa Trip – Day 1 Megan and I just got back from Napa/Sonoma valleys, where we had an awesome trip exploring tons of wineries and loving every minute of it. The next few blog posts will outline our 3 days there and will have lots of pictures and information about all the wine tasting that [...]
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