MJA worth a visit too. Heavy pours there. Testarossa in Los Gatos is really good. The architecture there is unique and wines really good.
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The Official Wine Thread!
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My girlfriend and I attended a wine event at USD last year where GB winery was there. She loved the BF so now we are members and enjoy it. Hard to imagine OB having a nice winery but a lot has changed since I started there in 81. Cant pronounce the names so I call it Johnny Bonaduce and Fahrvernugen, easier to remember...
I would never recommend La Crema. It's too pricey for a novice wine drinker and nowhere near good enough for someone that is really into wine.
Tons of better deals out there. I always found their Pinot had alot of bite to it.
I picked up 3 bottles of Anglim in Paso over Christmas. Got them at Fossil Wine Bar in Atascadero. Fossil is a great place to taste wine. You can taste alot of good Paso wines just like you are at the winery. Glasses and bottles are the same cost as it is at the winery. We had the Anglim Grenache. The Zin-Syrah-Mouvedre. And this Pinot grown in the Adelaida District. This is the second phenomenal Pinot I've had from grapes grown there. Practically guzzled this Pinot its so fucking good. Anglim is in Tin City in Paso.
Stags' Leap Merlot
Napa Valley, CA- Aromatics of ripe red cherry and sweet strawberry jam lead to flavors of rich red fruit, toasted almonds, dried thyme, and rosemary with a hint of black truffles. The firm tannins hold the flavors together as a full mid palate carries through the long finish.
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as young punks we used to go down to liquor stores on market street, near where petco park is today and buy night train fortified wine, we called it night training and would see where the evening would end up, usually in TJ....
now i'm a little more sophisticated
now i'm a little more sophisticated
You roll down there with Glenn Gould and the boys? They used to rage at a bar called Baghdad del Noche.
GBG - go to https://www.riversmarie.com/, sign up to their mailing list, and hope you get an email to purchase in the next few days. Buy their least expensive ($30) pinot. If you still like your pinot, it's arguably by many the best on the planet for the price/quality and this vintage was stellar.
We just found out my aunt passed in late December. Christie Vineyards. My two cousins are the inheritors. This is going to be interesting. My uncle loved wine. He developed this whole vineyard before he passed from cancer. My aunt kept it going. Both of my cousins are spoiled city kids. They have absolutely no agricultural background.
My guess is they are going to put this property up for sale.
An established vineyard with a current, ongoing Storrs Winery contract, plus gold medals....
Dude, when your family has been here since 1858 you kind of have a better handle on things.
My Great Grandfather on my mothers side was an immigrant from Italy. Wagon train boy. He bought the property where I grew up at. My grandfather was a generation later. He started as a bricklayer and ended up buying property all over Santa Cruz county.
Trustafarianism.
Scottish and German heritage. My family never gives anything away for free.
Still taking care of my 91 Y/O dad with alzheimers/dimentia.
My cousins are now free.
My Great Grandfather on my mothers side was an immigrant from Italy. Wagon train boy. He bought the property where I grew up at. My grandfather was a generation later. He started as a bricklayer and ended up buying property all over Santa Cruz county.
Trustafarianism.
Scottish and German heritage. My family never gives anything away for free.
Still taking care of my 91 Y/O dad with alzheimers/dimentia.
My cousins are now free.