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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines: Mindego Ridge
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines. Musings about the wineries, vineyards and winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding area. Saturday, July 5, 2014. This looks like an interesting new project. The site is a 10 acre vineyard in La Honda. Producing around 600 cases of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The winemaker is Ehren Jordan, formerly of Turley and owner of Failla, and a former San Francisco Chronicle Winemaker of the Year. And sign up for their mailing list. David was born in t...
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines: June 2014
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines. Musings about the wineries, vineyards and winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding area. Thursday, June 26, 2014. 2010 Big Basin Estate Syrahs. Since 2002 Bradley Brown has been producing excellent estate Syrah; intense wines that deserve - nay, demand - cellaring. As the vines have aged and other Rhone varieties have been planted the range has expanded. The latest release features two siblings that are very different from each other. And t...
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines: 2012 Cinnabar Chardonnay, Santa Cruz Mountains
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines. Musings about the wineries, vineyards and winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding area. Wednesday, June 25, 2014. 2012 Cinnabar Chardonnay, Santa Cruz Mountains. The fruit for the 2012 Chardonnay was sourced from two small vineyards high above Los Gatos; the 40 year old Wright’s Station Vineyard - http:/ www.wrightsstation.com. And the nearby 25 year old single acre Skyland Vineyard on Skyland Ridge. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines: 2010 Martella Syrah, Camel Hill Vineyard
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines. Musings about the wineries, vineyards and winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding area. Tuesday, June 24, 2014. 2010 Martella Syrah, Camel Hill Vineyard. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 2010 Big Basin Estate Syrahs. 2012 Cinnabar Chardonnay, Santa Cruz Mountains. 2010 Martella Syrah, Camel Hill Vineyard. 2011 Big Basin Pinot Noir, Lester Family Vineyard. Santa Cruz Mountains Winery Map. Santa Clara Valley Winery Map. Sweet and Sour Spe...
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines: April 2014
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines. Musings about the wineries, vineyards and winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding area. Sunday, April 20, 2014. Looking south from the vineyards. In 1929 Senator Roy Fellom purchased a 250 acre ranch on Monte Bello Road. A few acres of land had been planted with vines by the previous owner, Paul Cena and the family traded the grapes with a neighbour, Andrew Mikulaco, who paid them back in wine. Bud and Brookes Fellom. I contacted the winer...
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines: September 2012
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines. Musings about the wineries, vineyards and winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding area. Sunday, September 16, 2012. My response to an anonymous comment. I don't get many comments on the blog, but recently this one was posted on my report from Pinot Paradise. Someone posting anonymously said. You are using a 100 pt. system? But you must be too sophisiticated as a wine expert to pick up on that. For a while I resisted using it. In the ea...
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines: July 2014
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines. Musings about the wineries, vineyards and winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding area. Saturday, July 5, 2014. This looks like an interesting new project. The site is a 10 acre vineyard in La Honda. Producing around 600 cases of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The winemaker is Ehren Jordan, formerly of Turley and owner of Failla, and a former San Francisco Chronicle Winemaker of the Year. And sign up for their mailing list. Santa Cruz Mountain...
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines: May 2012
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines. Musings about the wineries, vineyards and winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding area. Thursday, May 24, 2012. Ridge has been hosting quarterly tastings for wine bloggers for 3 years now. Tasting room manger Christopher Watkins always tries something new each time and for the most recent event he wanted to combine his love of music with his love of wine. So he came up with the novel idea of pairing wine with Jazz classics. Possibly the ri...
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines: Santa Clara Valley Wine Trail
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines. Musings about the wineries, vineyards and winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding area. Friday, August 22, 2014. Santa Clara Valley Wine Trail. The Santa Clara Valley may well be the state's most under-recognized AVA - Wikipedia's entry on the History of California Wine. Thomas Kruse disgorges his Chardonnay. The celebrations will continue over the weekend with a special promotion. Tickets cost $40 at participating wineries. Wineries of Sa...