It’s time for another Old Vines Offline. Calling out for participants and sub-themes.
Maybe this time we can do a twist on our regular lineup of older vintges and check into some newer wines, ‘12 and younger, to see how they are progressing? Just a thought. As usual I would be happy to host but if you want to make it a restaurant event then majority rules.
Dates wide open at this point but looking around August-September-October
California Heritage varieties, clarets, reds, whites, field blends…
Who’s in?
I’ll be out your way the 1st two weeks in October. If your Old Vines Offline should happen to fall in that time frame, count me in, I’m sure I could convince my California boss to free me up (and maybe even provide a bottle or two of some recent vintages of something Old and Mature).
Dana and I are a likely, possible, tentative at this time. That said, we will really try to make this. We can do a more focused tasting on the younger wines, perhaps even trying to get a vertical or two of a specific wine or vineyard. As far as location, there are pros and cons to each. restaurant allows a central location, variety of food and no clean-up, but makes the interaction and wine sharing difficult. Your place is almost the opposite, with interaction and wine sharing very easy and we add the variety of food in here. The location is bit off the beaten path and prep and clean-up can take a bunch of your time. That said, I vote for your place.
We cannot make 10/13 due to a previous commitment, but can see if the other couple would trade baseball and beer tasting for wine tasting and an Old Vine Offline.
Let me check with the boss. Do we want to do this at your place or a restaurant, maybe something a little south of you for those coming from the Bay Area?
I’ve got a couple fun things to bring this time: The first ever Rockpile Cemetery Zin, '04 W-S Feeney, maybe a '13 St. Peters Church Zin from Valdez–these clones are thought to be the basis of most of the older plantings of DCV and Sonoma Zins generally.
I don’t suppose we could move this to July? I’ll be in Sonoma on July 16 and 17, if all stays according to plan. Would love to get together in any event for a different OL if we wanted to. I’ll probably toss up a separate thread, but thought worth it to mention here.