Category: Winery
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What is the Estate component?
Estate wines are not just every wine you pick up at a winery that has a vineyard attached. What “estate” means is the bottle of wine you are looking at, is 100% from grape to finish, from one place. There is a certain orientation to a winemaker that does all 100% estate wines.
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Tempranillo a California fringe variety
Tempranillo a majestic and noble grape made famous in Spain (think Rioja). In California this is a low production variety, but with a small cult following among top tier producers similar to Southern Oregon or Texas.
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The noble road to 100
Notes from Bill Easton’s talk on his journey to Ascent Syrah, the most awarded Syrah in the Sierra Foothills of California.
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50 years of modern wine making in El Dorado County
Learn about the history of the two stalwart wineries of the Camino/Apple Hill region of El Dorado County.