Newly into wine

[peterson]

On my way back from diving for abalone today I took a look at DeLoach Vineyards on Olivet rd in Santa Rosa.
Very down to earth tasting room staff. We started with Fume Blanc, very nice and light.
Then they had me try their Gewurztaminer with Wasbi peas that one of the staff had brought in with there lunch. What a great mix of the residual sugar and the spicyness of the wasabi. I might get in trouble with my wife, but I baught a case. They even gave me a discount 0f 33% when I told them I worked around the corner and had brought in my friends. The Pinot as really good also. My buddie Steve got a half case and a half of the Pinot and a vineyard designate Peletti Zin that was on special at 50% off for anyone that came in. They actually had about 4 veriaties that were in the Half off section.
The girls also told me the storie how the owners are a couple that had planned to retire from being a San Francisco Fireman and his wife a probation officer before the land with the 100+ year old Zin vines made them enough money to buy more and more land and open the winery in the 60's. I thought it ws cool that every day people could do well, most of the other tasting rooms I have been in so far were filled with lawyer made money and very commercialised.