Very brief notes from Wine South 2005

[dananne]

I promise I meant no offense to NC wines -- I've almost always got at least a mixed case of stuff on hand from wineries all over the SE, so I have no snobbishness about the wines and really try to support the local folks. Also, I really believe that the wine industry in the SE (especially in the extreme NE part of GA up into the Yadkin Valley in NC) is making strides. I had wanted to try Shelton's Riesling (which I have heard good things about), but they didn't have it out, so I had two of their reds. So, to be more specific, the reds I tried from Shelton weren't to my taste. I found them a bit too vegetal and dilute.

Wonders -- thanks for the heads up on Childress. I had read something about it recently in the Wine Report, that free wine mag that's at some of the wine shops in our neck of the woods (I think up in Charlotte, too). And, yes, I heard about your visit last year to Frank in the FL. Actually, this one was the first FL wine I've tried!