by Laura Ness - HerVineNess on December 13, 2010
Visit the festively decorated Big Basin Vineyards Tasting room in downtown Saratoga today for the region’s finest selection of seasonally appropriate and sensational Syrahs. Enjoy a tasting flight with current vintages like the massive, fruit-laden 2008 Booker Grenache Syrah from Paso Robles (very limited – almost sold out), or the intensely rich 2007 Coastview Syrah from the Gabilan Mountains of Monterey.
- Attention Pinot lovers: the beautifully balanced 2007 Alfaro Pinot Noir is almost sold out. Don’t miss the last of this exceptional vintage!
- Selection of Holiday Gift Bags offered – included with purchase
- Enjoy Wines by the Glass with the Pate pairings
- Need a classy gift basket? How about a beauty with Homestead & Mandala, two 22oz Big Basin Crystal glasses, a Soirée wine aerator, and box of chocolates for $138- gorgeous!
- Get gift box shipping to 30 states! Includes customized gift card; shipping included for CA addresses for orders totaling 6 or more bottles. Order now!
Special Magnum offering - very limited edition: 2007 Bald Mtn Pinot, Santa Cruz Mountains, 2007 Branciforte Ridge Pinot, Santa Cruz Mountains, 2007 Alfaro Pinot, Santa Cruz Mountains, 2008 Woodruff Family Vineyard Pinot, 2007 Odeon Syrah/Cabernet, Santa Cruz Mountains, 2007 Coastview Syrah, 2006 Rattlesnake Rock Syrah.
Friends of the Vineyard receive 10% off all tasting room wine purchases or free shipping on all gift orders! Hurry and take advantage of this offer.
The Big Basin Vineyards Tasting room at Big Basin Way in uptown Saratoga Village is open Thurs thru Mon, 11 til 5pm, and til 7pm on Friday and Saturday.
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by Laura Ness - HerVineNess on October 29, 2010
Big Basin Vineyards announces the new “Tantalizing Tastes: Food & Wine Pairings” program. Wine lovers are invited to enjoy a selection of Big Basin’s highly acclaimed wines along with gourmet patés from one of the Bay Area’s leading purveyors of authentic French delicacies, Fabriques Delices. Big Basin is proud to offer these superb products to complement their rich selection of handcrafted mountain-grown Pinot and Syrah.
Winemaker Bradley Brown is also offering a vertical of his exceptional Fairview Syrahs. Showcasing vintages 2006 thru 2008, these stunning and powerful Syrahs hail from the Fairview Road Ranch vineyard in the Santa Lucia Highlands. Here, the relentless cooling winds from the Monterey Bay combine with the long, often dry growing season to create wines of great character and intensity.
All three vintages of Fairview Road Ranch Syrah display a signature aroma of white pepper and intense spice: these flavors carry over to the palate, where their fine tannins and robust structure contribute to an opulent, mouth-filling wine meant to be savored with the rich full-bodied fare of autumn.
The three-wine vertical tasting flight of Fairview Syrah is available for $5. Wines are available by the glass for $11.50, and retail for $39 per bottle. A three-bottle set [...]
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by Laura Ness - HerVineNess on October 7, 2010
All of our lives have been touched by cancer: it’s hard not to think about how many dear ones have suffered from this epidemic. The good folks at Bargetto are holding a cancer benefit this Saturday, Oct 9, to help raise funds for the Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group.
Featuring the delightful rosés from several of the Santa Cruz Mountains best-loved wineries, including Big Basin Vineyards, Poetic Cellars, Hunter Hill, Savannah Chanelle, Beauregard Winery, Martin Ranch and Bonny Doon. The fundraiser will be held at Bargetto Winery on Main Street in Soquel from 3pm til 6pm, Saturday, Oct 9. The donation cost is $20 per person.
You can drink pink for a good cause, can’t you?
by Laura Ness - HerVineNess on October 2, 2010
Winemaker Bradley Brown is keeping an eye on the sky and on the thermometer, as the weather turns considerably cooler compared to last week. He notes that many of the Pinot vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains are stressed and dessicated, and vineyard owners are throwing lots of water at the problem.
Bradley cautions against overdoing the water, though, especially with the extended cool down. He says a stretch of temps in the 70’s, rather than the 90’s, will be “perfect for grapes.” Stressed vines could not keep up with the heat, which sucked the moisture out of them due to excessive transpiration. Now. they are picking up water and dropping in brix.
“It could be a big mistake to over water, as the seeds are still green, and the flavors are not yet there.” He’s hanging in there, waiting for the flavors to come around, one of the days, or weeks.
Bradley plans to make a trip to the Coastview vineyard in the Gabilan mountains this coming Wednesday to investigate the progress those amazing high altitude Syrah vines are making. Then it will be on to the new Ironwood vineyard in Aptos, a one-acre plot of Dijon clones that he’ll pick [...]
by Laura Ness - HerVineNess on September 22, 2010
Newcomer to Saratoga, Big Basin Vineyards, will make its debut at the Saratoga Art & Wine Festival, to be held this weekend, Sept 25& 26, from 10am until 6pm in beautiful downtown Saratoga. Shuttle buses will be available from West Valley College and Saratoga High School, where attendees are encouraged to park.
The entire village will be turned into a celebration of art, food,music and wine, with bands providing a festive backdrop to the vibrant artscape that is Saratoga. Big Basin is among 6 wineries pouring.
Big Basin Vineyards will be pouring the 2009 Aura Rose of Syrah, the 2008 Monterey-Santa Cruz Syrah and the 2007 Fairview Road Ranch Syrah from the Santa Lucia Highlands at the festival. The tasting room at the west end of town will be open from 11am til 7pm on Saturday and from 11am til 5pm on Sunday.
Two for one tasting tickets will be available at the Big Basin booth at the Festival.
