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Mmmmm... I have a bottle or two of that 1999 laying around here... thanks for the notes and congrats on the new business status!!!

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Dezel does a thorough job reviewing his local wineries, look at the number of reviews listed!

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Dezel does a thorough job reviewing his local wineries, look at the number of reviews listed!

Your hammer has connected squarely with the nail on this one! I have been trying to get a couple people to do this for the Sierra Foothills of California, but no luck. I'd do it myself if I didn't have a winery to run...!

hi Ryan - excellent post! I think awareness of Iberian wines and varieties is growing and a watershed year is on the horizon, if not this year. Our local (Calaveras County) wine ass'n held its monthly "Wines of the World" session recently, and the subject was Iberian wines. We sampled eight wines from Cava to Sherry.


The one wine that got my attention was a 2003 Allende Rioja Tempranillo-Garnacha. I have been pretty immersed in California wines for a while, so the wall of Brettanomyces from this that hit me at first whiff really sent me reeling! But once I gave that a chance to blow off the wine really settled down and the remaining Brett aroma actually added positively to the fruitiness and overall enjoyment of the wine.



I have been so conditioned to think of Brett as a flaw that this experience was a reminder that there are lots of different ways to put enjoyment in a glass. (No, I'm not going to start inoculating our wines with Brett...;-)