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Oops, I misspelled Croad: https://www.croadvineyards.com The guy makes a lot more than Zin, but I will be sure to try Fiddletown and Rocky Top cuvees and report back. Sadly his Zin is not $20 or I would order a case a month.</p>
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Oops, I misspelled Croad: https://www.croadvineyards.com The guy makes a lot more than Zin, but I will be sure to try Fiddletown and Rocky Top cuvees and report back. Sadly his Zin is not $20 or I would order a case a month.</p>
Despite living an hour away I’m going on my first Amador trip in a couple months. Recommendations on vineyards to try, restaurants or other things to do with the wife?
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Vino Noceto
Turley
Scott Harvey
Villa Toscano
Andis
Lava Cap and Boeger (El Dorado near Placerville)
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Cg D’Arie is a personal favorite. Great blends and likely the best Cab in the foothills.Quote:
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Paul J is Paul Sobon’s other winery. Mostly small batch stuff that he is playing around with. Some real gems there.
Cooper is an Amador classic. If you want good representation of traditional foothill wines go here.
Not in Amador, but Bumgarner in Camino is also worth a stop. Small family run operation with a solid lineup of single varietals and blends. Their Many Hands Bordeaux style blend is a favorite. They also do cider if you’re into that. Tasting room is right off of 50.
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Bumgarner also has a cool tasting room in Fairplay in Amador. Nice spot
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Grower champagne and seared swordfish on tap tonight. I'd post a pic but, ya know, the forum is all broke
Haven’t been to their FairPlay place yet. Brian and Jennifer are awesome. During Covid, their teenaged kids delivered our wine club shipment to our house. Literally pulled up in their Camry and dropped the box on our front porch. Not going to get that from some corporate owned mega winery.Quote:
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For any of the De Negoce/Cameron Hughes fans out there, he's launching a new venture focused on $10-15 bottles. https://thenegociantwine.com/
There's so much extra fruit and juice right now. It's ridiculous. Every major wine producing region with the possible exception of sancerre is oversupplied. The only problem with creating a private label to suck up some obscenely high quality juice for cheap is finding enough people to buy it once it's made.
Nice tip. Looks like Cameron bought a yacht with some of his De Negoce money. Lol.
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Is there anything from Amador that isn't a fruit bomb? Years ago when I lived in Auburn we were so excited to visit the area. We brought back a bunch of bottles purchased in the excitement of the moment during fun tastings, only to decide during the eventual consumption of said bottles that we didn't really care for any enough to re-purchase. Its been awhile, I just recall most being super fruit forward and one dimensional.
I think we sent all your wine back but IME NZ wines from the Marlborough region are worth checking out, my go-tos are Stoneleigh Pinot gris and fo red their Pinot noir
It's wine club shipment season and my goodness, I just have to say for my taste buds, the zins coming out of Paso Robles are just so up my alley.
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Just cracked a bottle of the De Negoce Vonsee Romanee…delicious
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Didn’t taste any pencil lead though
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Had some nice pencil lead going on in both of the cab francs in this lineup from this morning. The Saumur was mighty good.
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Bell pepper is one of the few flavor characteristics that I don't like at all in wine, so I've pretty much given up on cab franc.
Try a Chinon from the LoireQuote:
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So I guess the pics are still not working on the app. Is that shit ever gonna get fixed cuz this place is a hell of a lot more interesting with pics?
A few nice bottles last night... The library Ridge stole the show.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/win...SRFM1NBRYXGDSQ
If you can get around the pay wall, pretty sobering article about the condition of the Sierra foothills wine region.
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Library ridge .....Since most of us can't see them, which ones and what vintages?
Virtually every winery in California is oversupplied right now. So many of these guys sold fruit or juice into the bulk market to diversify their revenue steam but the bulk market is dead because everyone has plenty of wine to sell already.
If my business was growing bulk wine grapes in Lodi I would be looking for something really tall to jump off of. I know of a grower in Stags Leap who was getting $18k per ton for her fruit 3 years ago but couldn't even find a buyer for it for $6k last fall. She ended up letting most of it hang cuz she didn't want to spend the money to harvest it without a buyer lined up.
PB: yeah, sorry about the pic fail, thought tapatalk would work. three wines, not all Ridge:2018 Lachini Estate pinot noir2014 Covalli Barolo2009 Ridge Lytton Estate petit sirahAll very different, all very enjoyable.