On the Road with the Grape Guy

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California has been coming to town a lot lately … it’s part of the on-going push to get California back on top of the new world wine heap.  This time the Foster’s Wine Group organized their Winemakers on Tour program:  9 wineries, including Beringer, Etude, Stag’s Leap, Greg Norman and Cellar No. 8 along with their winemakers, took time out to pour, taste and talk about their wines.  A California Cabernet seminar preceded the tasting, but my invitation got lost in the mail, so I will be reporting only on the wines I tasted.

Cab rules California, so you’ll find tons at any tasting where California wines are the focus.  I start any California tasting believing that most will taste the same, so it is up to the winery/winemaker to prove they truly have done something really different and interesting with this grape ... (Read more)

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