Napa Valley wine trip trip report

[J.A.Sucker]

mike,

Wine tasting is better in the Santa Cruz mountains than Napa to tell you the truth. You can go to Testarossa, Ridge, Savanahh-Chanelle, and Pachetti in one day. All this is 15 minutes from Bay 101. It doesn't get any better than this, and yes, I'll be in for sure.

Sucker.

[J.Brown]

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mike,

Wine tasting is better in the Santa Cruz mountains than Napa to tell you the truth. You can go to Testarossa, Ridge, Savanahh-Chanelle, and Pachetti in one day. All this is 15 minutes from Bay 101. It doesn't get any better than this, and yes, I'll be in for sure.

Sucker.

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can we make this a date dr. sucker on my next trip to the beautiful bay area? seriously.

i love testarossa and ridge beyond words.
you could be my hero. J.

[El Diablo]

J/J,

Count me in for Ridge/Testarossa trip.

[James282]

D,

Great read - making me very excited for when the Mrs. and I make our yearly trip out to SF and Napa. Sounds like Darioush has upped the ante even since I've been there. What a shame. When T and I went it was 15$ for the Cab, Chardonnay, Syrah and a Pinot if I'm not mistaken. The Cab was also 62$ then, and while a ripoff, was a sick bottle nonetheless.

I could drink that Miner Sangiovese with every meal - that was definitely our favorite wine from our Napa trip. And for 24$? Yowza. They're giving it away. I think we're going to have a case ordered when we come out in April/May. Excited to read about your most recent trip - definitely bookmarking this thread and hitting some of these ones I haven't been to when we come. Count down the days my friend - maybe this time you can join us when we head up there!

James

[Gabe]

I hope it'll be better than that wine tasting in pasadena that you set up and didn't end up going to. LMD, Joe, and Death Donkey were the youngest people there by several decades, and people were giving speeches.

[mike l.]

i tried some wine tonight with bakku, death donkey and stinkypete:

2005 winner's tank shiraz. smells like raid, tastes worse. astringent is the first word that comes to mind. not much else going on here just a rubbing alcohol flavor. really really bad. did not improve after a few hours.

2001 aries los carneros merlot. more of the lysol astringent tone going on here, this one opened up a but after 3 hours but was still basically undrinkable swill.

2004 evesham wood seven springs pinot noir. boring pinot, very traditional and floral nose and taste. not awful but not embraceable either. 85 points.

2004 melka CJ cab sauv. cocoa puff/coffee/mocha nose as always, little chalky but great long finish. 91+ points. need to restock on this one.

[El Diablo]

Sucker: "Wine tasting is better in the Santa Cruz mountains than Napa to tell you the truth." No it isn't.

mike: Sounds like a plan.