Wine 2.0?

Last Thursday, during the Web 2.0 Expo, there was an event called Wine 2.0 held at the Crushpad offices in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.  It was hailed as a merging of technology & wine that would showcase both area wineries as well as technology related to the wine industry.  While there were plenty of wineries there was a lack of any interesting wine technologies sans Crushpad itself.  The event was a lot of fun but it was more of a boozing, singles party than a true wine tasting. 

Vintages Tasted -

• Twisted oak - from murphys area - good rhone style and Spanish grapes
  • Jeff, the winemaker and owner, is a character.

• Rimon wines pomegrante dessert wine made in Israel- noticeable seeds and white dust.  Very unique dessert wine.

• Mollydooker -
  • Cabernet (the maitre d) 2006 - nice but nothing spectacular relative to their other varietals.
  • Shiraz - 2006 -
  • Blue Eyed Boy 2006 - (Shiraz) - ethanol nose with a heavy handed palette pleaser. Too strong for me but a great example of the fruit forward nature of new world wines.
  • Carnival of love 2006 - (Shiraz) - 99 points from Parker, this is a heavy handed, strong willed Shiraz. Much more balanced than the blue eyed boy.

• Sapid 2004 Syrah - fruit forward, pleasant.   Company is starting a new brand called Jason Stephens

• Vie winery -
  • Rose 2007 - from Santa barbara grapes, subtle and nice
  • Granache 2006 -
  • Syrah 2006 -
  • Zinfandel 2006 - blackberry like the mobile device.

• L'Etranger 2006 - Zingandel Blend -

• 122 West - Pinot noir port -