Wine Seminar

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My local wine shop had a seminar tonight hosted by J. Lohr winery. I had a ball, and got to taste a chardonnays (river stone I think), a valdiguie’ (wildflower) (this would be a perfect “first red” for someone wanting to get started on red’s), a merlot, two cab’s (seven oaks and hilltop) and a zin (old vine).

I’ve never had so many different wines in succession that I liked so much, (usually if I try six wines there’s at least one or two “strikes” in the batch). I don’t even like zin’s, and I liked this one.

All the wines except the zin were “estate” wines, but what really got my attention was how different the two cab’s were. The Seven Oaks cab is from one vineyard and aged in American oak, the Hilltop cab is from another vinyard and aged in French oak. These are VERRY different wines, but I REALLY enjoyed both.

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