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B Cellars - Wine Tasting Notes

B Cellars, located on Silverado Trail in Calistoga, has been making wine since '03 but just opened up this tasting room 10 weeks ago. They are a relatively small producer (3.5k cases a year) that has ambitions to be bigger (based on the money spent on the tasting room).

August Briggs - Wine Tasting Notes

August Briggs winery, located in Calistoga on the Silverado Trail, is a small producer (4kish cases a year) of mostly single vineyard Pinot's, Syrah's & Cabs. They also produce wine for Jeff Gordon on a separate label.

Barnett Vineyards - Tasting Notes

Barnett Vineyards, up on Spring Mountain Road (on the edge of Napa & Sonoma counties) is a small producer (4k annual cases) that specializes on mountain Cabernet Sauvignon.

Chateau Montelena Tasting

Visited the famous, thanks to Bottleshock and the Judgment in Paris, Chateau Montelena today for a tasting.

Solage Calistoga

An Auberge resort on the Silverado Trail in Calistoga, Ca, Solage Calistoga is a modern contemporary meets urban hip spa resort.

Gundlach Bundschu Wine Tasting & Tour

We visited the winery, Gundlach Bundschu, just outside Sonoma, CA today for a tasting and tour.  GunPun.com, as they're trying to use as a funny short for their name, was founded in 1858 and has remained a family owned & operated business for the past 152 years.  

Three Wine Company Tasting

Wine tasting again in Clarksburg, Ca at the Old Sugar Mill. The first winery were tasting at is the Three Wine Company.

They source their grapes from out Northern California. Started by former Cline Estates owner Matt Cline and his wife Erin, they produce about 6k cases in a boutque fashion. Their tasting room is located in a great old sugar mill that has been renovated to be a wine tasting room.

Three Wine Company focuses on Zinfandel and old vine red varietals like Carignane & Mourvedre. Everything I tasted was consistent and mild, very good stuff. I loved their '06 S3X Riesling which is a nice alcohol 9% to sugar 12% ratio. It's a wonderful dessert wine for those that fancy it.

Gourmet Homemade Dinner

My mother in law is coming to stay with us next week to help us transition into the world of parentdom. Tonight was a kind of dry run where she came and made a four course gourmet, delicious meal.

Silver Oak for Christmas Dinner

This Christmas my uncle brought a bottle of '03 Silver Oak Anderson Valley to dinner. It was a very nice bottle, I added an '03 Runquist Petite Sirah to the mix. The Runquist is a fruit forward, heavy but balanced red wine. Coupled with a stuffed pork roast, it was a perfect ending to a wonderful holiday.

Scott Harvey tasting

We visited Scott Harvey Wines in Sutter Creek, CA. Specializing in Zincandels, they source grapes from Napa and Amadke Valley.

I tasted the
2004 InZinerator - a sin blend
2005 Napa Old Vine Zinfandel - nice but light zin
2005 Old Vine Zinfandel - light cherry blossoms tasting
2005 Mountain Selection Syrah -
2005 Mountain Selection Barbera - classic, simple Mediterrean style wine. Easy drinking wine.
2004 Forte - traditional port, a little too sugary for my liking.

The Harvey is a second generation winemaking family.