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		<title>Big Basin Spring Celebration Unfurls Budding Beauties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Ness - HerVineNess</dc:creator>
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At the annual Big Basin Vineyards Spring Release Celebration last weekend on Memory Lane in Boulder Creek, everything was harmonious: the weather (Gods and Goddesses), the music (Scott Law), the artwork (Matt Lane), the jewelry (Octavia), the food by Chef Desiree Ledsome (awesome pulled pork sliders, grilled lamb and pita, fabulous rosemary grilled fingerling potatoes, endless chevre and Lamb Chopper cheese tray), and yes, the wine. The wine! Thanks to the well-farmed vines and the amazing things winemaker Bradley Brown and assistant winemaker, Lindsey Otis, do with the resultant fruit. At this winery, the vineyards truly rule.
The Rhone vines at the Big Basin estate winery were just beginning to spring forth in all their verdant glory, the Grenache the first to take the plunge, while the Roussanne seemed to have a better handle on the forecast: “I see rain. That’s ok, you go ahead and bloom. I’m just going to cool my heels here til mid-month.” And thus, Roussanne remained tight-lipped and tight-budded, while the Grenache was eagerly unfurling its leaves to bask in the warm spring sun.
Meanwhile, in the cellar, the new wines Bradley has just released are bursting with vitality, and in some cases, with genuine warmth.
The new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Que Syrah&#8221; Sizzles Despite Sleet: Proceeds Donated to Japan Relief Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Ness - HerVineNess</dc:creator>
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Fittingly, the First Annual  &#8220;Que Syrah&#8221; event, a celebration of cool climate Syrahs from the Santa Lucia Highlands, was blessed with plenty of cool weather. Snow, sleet, hail, rain and chilly winds greeted the 200 some attendees at the sold out tasting held at Wrath Winery in Soledad.
Not only did they have some of the finest cool climate Syrahs California has to offer, but they were treated to some truly fine food.  Let’s just say that Chef Brian Overhauser of Hahn Estates knows his way around a bottle of Syrah as well as he knows his way around a kitchen.
The beef cheek sliders with the frisee and radicchio salad (provided by Emily Lyons of Royal Rose Radicchio), was dressed to the nines, and was dead on with the richer styles of Syrah, like Novvy, Paraiso and Antiqus, while the five-spice roast pork belly crostini showed off the peppery prowess of wines like Boekenoogen, Manzoni (Dave Coventry and Mark Manzoni, below left), Big Basin Vineyards and Pelerin (Chris Weideman of Pelerin, below. right).

The sea bass with Syrah reduction and broccoli beurre blanc (insanely good, but a lot of work), was nicely suited to Hahn, Wrath and Morgan’s renderings.
The three rave faves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Cruz Mountains: Pinot Paradise, Indeed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Ness - HerVineNess</dc:creator>
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You could say I am besotted with Pinot. It is without doubt, for me, like the Holy Grail of varietals. I know it&#8217;s out there: the perfect, Platonic ideal of Pinot. Keats wrote about it when he said &#8220;A thing of beauty is a joy forever.&#8221; I&#8217;ve had so many Pinots, so many forgettable. So many overwrought, overrated, overextracted, overoaked, overripe: over and over and over. It&#8217;s like a woman whose lips have been botoxed to clowndom.
That&#8217;s the problem. Why do so many winemakers think they need to take this lithe and wonderful grape and beat it into extracted submission? Leave it the heck alone. The still, small, unadulterated voice of Pinot is what I long to hear, but it&#8217;s been drowned out by too much oak, too much extraction and too much handling. Ok, you guys who like that style are well-served, in fact, over-served. There&#8217;s more of it on the market than ever. And I&#8217;m here to tell you there&#8217;s quite a bit of it coming out of the Santa Cruz Mountains, where you&#8217;d think the opposite style would be predominant.
Nope. At a recent blind tasting of Pinots held at Burrell School Vineyards high in the Summit area [...]]]></description>
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