My Top Ten QPR Wines For 1999, $12 Or Less

[Jerry D Mead]

Cab Franc has always been this Calaveras County winery's best wine...it's a little out of the way at Murphys, CA, but Ironstone has one of the classiest visitor facilities in the U.S. Definitely worth a visit...the facility will hold its own with anything in the North Coast and the wines are getting better. It's an offbeat variety, but they make a delicious Symphony with the proprietary name "Obsession."

Another Ironstone sidenote...when the Kautz family was looking for a new brand name some years back...It was your humble Curmudgeon who came up with the "Ironstone" name after observing the winery's caves which were drilled and blasted out of the side of a mountain from some of the hardest rock around.