All Posts Tagged With: "California"
Fire up the grill! Joel Gott’s 815 is up to the challenge.
The 815 Cabernet is named for the August 15th birth of Lucy, Joel and Sarah Gotts’ oldest daughter who was born during the 2003 harvest. In a very short time, Joel Gott has established cult status in California winemaking and earned a reputation as someone making affordable, carefully crafted wines. Aside from making wine, Joel [...]
26Mar2010 | Jason | 0 comments | Continued
Free In-Store Wine Tasting: With Special Guest Bruce Neyers from Neyers Vineyards
Many longtime Dedalus fans are, by now, also fans of Bruce Neyers and his wines. Vintage after vintage, the bottlings from Bruce’s Conn Valley Ranch in the heart of the Napa Valley, are a testament to what many of us consider Napa’s real potential. These wines aren’t fruit monsters. They don’t blow your face off [...]
23Oct2009 | Jason | 0 comments | Continued
The Craft of Food & Wine – A Dinner featuring the Wines of Robert Sinskey
The Craft of Food & Wine – A Dinner
Featuring the wines of Robert Sinskey Vineyards
with guest speaker: Mark Neville
“the only way to truly be good at the craft of winemaking is to know your materials…” Jeff Virnig – Winemaker, Robert Sinskey Vineyards
From vine to bottle, these wines are the embodiment of old world [...]
Turley Juvenile – That’s right, We’ve Got It
2007 Turley Juvenile. Let’s start at the back. “Juvenile” refers to the age of the Zinfandel vines — for this wine, 25 years or younger. Turley is a Zinfandel specialist, gathering old vine grapes planted in California before Prohibition. “Juvenile” is made from the occasional replacements since even the life of a vine is not [...]
10Jun2009 | Jason | 1 comment | Continued
The American Wine Scene – A Free In Store Tasting
You’re going to love pouring these wines for your friends. Especially if you do any entertaining and extra-especially if you’re into grilling and relaxing outside. What could be better than having your own little selection of delicious, crowd pleasing wines? Well, knowing that everybody who gets a glass of them will be in awe of [...]
15Apr2009 | Jason | 0 comments | Continued
Class – The American Wine Frontier: The Artisan Wines of Northern California
Sunday, June 14th from 3:00 – 4:30
$35/Person
This event is Sold Out. Call or email the shop to be added to our waiting list. We will be releasing another class series soon.
Fleur Petite Sirah, 2006 – Tuta Reviws A Resourceful Immigrant
Let’s consider the Petite Sirah grape. Despite failing in its birthplace, this resourceful immigrant has flourished in the New Worlds of California and Australia. Petite Sirah first appeared in France around 1870 when the botanist François Durif caught sight of it in someone’s vineyard and named it after himself. Durif [...]
11Dec2008 | Jason | 1 comment | Continued
Jade Mountain Ancient Vine Mourvedre – A Single Vineyard Steal!
How does a grape strangle a dog? That question comes from discovering that one of the names for Mourvedre is `estrangle-chien’ (others are monastell and Balzac). Whatever the case, we drink it much more than we realize, in Châteauneuf-du-Pape for instance, where it blends well with Grenache. Look out too for Australian blends of Shiraz and [...]
3Nov2008 | Jason | 2 comments | Continued
Honig Cabernet Sauvignon – Cult Cab for the Everyman
There’s quite a bit of Cabernet Sauvignon being bottled in California’s Napa Valley. Driven by the success of cult bottlings like Screaming Eagle and Harlan, the only thing growing faster than the region’s renown might be the prices Napa Cabs are fetching around the world. These increase are not necessarily marked by an astronomical increase [...]
29Aug2008 | Jason | 0 comments | Continued
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