My latest article for Palate Press features four different wines from around the country that support worthy charities, some don’t take profit at all.
The article has already been featured in the blog of the day section on winebusiness.com, read the full article here.
Same deal: one hour, twelve wines, five minutes each. Only difference is they’re white this time.
Chard from a box! Don Sebastian and Sons Chard. almost grassy with lots of toasted oak. not bad, guess there is hope for boxed wine
Ortman wines chardonnay very toasty nose. Extreme toasted coconut finish, vanilla on the palate
Pithy Little wine Co. Sangiovese rose nice toastiness on the nose, watermelon jolly rancher on the palate and finish. nice change of pace
Parducci winery sustainable white, light and citrusy bold nose compared to the last two I’ve tried. slightly meaty aftertaste? what?
L’Ecole semillon good porch wine, simple, lots of vanilla
Dry Creek Vineyard chenin blanc vanilla on the nose granny smith apple, nice, light, and smooth
House wine white from Magnificent Wine Co citrus and apple, orange blossom white blend chard, riesling, gewurtz, pinot gris. Crisp and acidic
Molly Dooker Verdello “the violinist” heavy pineapple nose. Crisp citrus on palate, straw color
Worthwhile Wine Co Neethlingshof chard. citrusy nose, tropical fruit no oak so crisp almost tastes carbonated. complex finish
Concannon chard. creamy nose with some tropical fruit, , well balanced lots of pear on the palate, hints of oak. Not a buttery chard
Cornerstone cellars Sauv Blanc, crisp, bright, acidity on back palate. Pear and crisp apple They call it a good crab wine
**My favorite this time was House Wine white. It was really great, more complex than I would have anticipated and very well done.**
Here’s how it went: one hour, 12 wines, and 5 minutes per wine maker. They came to our tables randomly and poured us all tastes, while we sipped, swirled and spat we also had to pay attention to what the wine makers were saying. It was quite the whirlwind and tons of fun. I tasted 12 whites, too, but since I’m a red girl I’ll start with them.
Unfortunately, there were a couple I didn’t get to post for one reason or another, but here is my red wine Twitter round up:
@Worthwhilewine company Dark Lady pinotage mocha and smoke on the nose bacon and chocolate palate, I like this
Monthaven octavin container cab sauv central coast boxed wine this is a cab? that’s all I can say
07 Banfi Belnero sangiovese /cab/merlot very young, but good potential
RT @vino_g: Dark Lady of the Labyrinth Pinotage – smokey bacon and coffee….Breakfast! I like it!
Nicholas Cole Cellars Camille red wine blend. Very interesting. Medium body, meaty
@dustedvalley Boomtown cab bright red fruit, some cocoa great wine for $15
Buty Columbia Red Aviva cab/syrah blend. Nose of espresso and cocoa, beautifully balanced. I might just swallow this one 
Hogue Cellars Genesis Meritage fruit forward, grips the palate, coffee finish
@kenpayton how one tastes after smoking http://twitpic.com/209tg0 (this photo was too funny not to add)
@DCVGuy dry creek zin! beautiful nose, can def taste the petit sirah it mellows the zin, raisiny
Maryhill ’07 Zin spicy, easy on the palate, tannic finish good food wine
@JordanWinery 2006 cab sauv dark fruit , hints of cocoa and smoke
**My overall favorite red is the Red Aviva from Buty, hugely surprising, beautiful blend. I loved it.**
Living in Ohio, most of my wine friends I only know via the internet. We chat on Twitter and Facebook, but I rarely get to go to any of the events or Tweetups, therefore I was really excited to get to meet everyone at the Wine Blogger’s Conference.
The conference itself was everything I had hoped it would be, fun, informative, lots of great people, and most importantly never dull.
I arrived around 11 pm on June 24th and after a $124 cab ride from the airport (don’t ask) I finally got to lay down at the Marcus Whitman hotel 
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While palate fatigue was a daily occurance (they had wine tables set up at 9 am) and I never did adjust to the change of time zones ( I was in bed at 10 and up at 5 am) I had so much fun. People I only got to talk to through Twitter were even better in real life. I even got fake married while I was there, but that’s another blog post entirely. Here are some of my favorite people:
Remy Charest, and David Honig
(check out all my ribbons)
Joe Roberts (1WineDude) who won blog of the year.
Melissa Dobson.Hoping to be just like her when I grow up.
Tia Butts. Love her!
Oh, were you wondering about the wines we tried? You’re going to have to wait for another post. =)
