When you get some of the best fruit in the Valley you can only expect to wind up with an amazing final product. The folks at Enkidu did just that with this 2010 Bedrock Old Vine Vineyard bottling. But with only 200 cases produced I have to warn you that it will be gone in [...]
We rarely do blind Zinfandel tastings, but we have to do it once in a while. So my group rounded up a bunch of worthy opponents and we battled it out between many younger and older vine Zins. The list included: Ridge “Pagani Ranch” (93 Pts Parker) Acorn “Allegria” (92 WS) Hartford “Dina” (93 Pts [...]
Horse and Plow is a small husband and wife run winery in Santa Rosa that focuses on making handcrafted wines exclusively from organic and bio-dynamic grapes. Chris Condos (winemaker/partner) started his career at Pine Ridge in 1995. He is also the day-to-day winemaker for Kathryn Kennedy winery. His wife, Suzanne Hagins started her career at [...]
Morgan Twain-Peterson reminds me of a scientist turned rock star or a rock star turned scientist. Maybe he is “Rockientist”. All I can say, he really knows what he’s stuff. Since his childhood days at age 5 – he made his first wine in Kindergarten, when you and I were playing with dinky toys! He [...]
Kirk Venge has been crafting wines since his childhood with his “famous” dad Nils Venge (first 100 Point winemaker in the Napa Valley, 1985 Groth Reserve). Nils told me some years ago that Kirk is a better winemaker than he’ll ever be – big statement! Kirk also makes the wines for Macauley, Venge, Honeycut, Jax, [...]
Carol’s career got an early and unusual start at only six years old. Her mom developed an “identify the scent” game using household herbs and spices that was the beginning of Carol’s path into the wine industry. It quickly became apparent that Carol not only had a great sense of smell, but she was remarkably [...]
Portalupi is a small family owned winery that was created by a husband and wife team in 2002. Their goal was to create wines worthy of their Italian ancestry. Having traversed the gamut of premium wineries I would say they succeeded in their quest and the results are some very high-quality wines, at an economically [...]
Ed Kurtzman’s portfolio includes Roar, Freeman, August West and Sandler. He really put his stamp on the wine map and received great accolades with these wines (and others) over the past 20 years. I was very excited when he offered me the 2010 Buck Hill Zinfandel. A real crowd pleaser and money saver! Sandler 2010 [...]
Vince Tofanelli recently poured at our Valentine’s Day Tasting and wowed many with his great wines and personality. As you might know Tofanelli grows a lot more than what he produces and Turley is one of his biggest clients! That said, the following day we conducted a bind tasting of 10 great Zins (Martinelli G&L, [...]
Remridg is a small family-owned operation with some great vineyards of their own and some amazing sources to select from. The 2009 Rockpile is one of the most-sought-after vineyards in the state. Their winemaker does not need an intro – Jay Buoncristiani (Buoncristiani, Penche, etal). As for Zinfandel, it is one of the quintessential wine [...]
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Apr | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
© Frank Melis. Golden Gate Wine Cellars. Vineyard theme adapted from Patagonia