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		<title>Rhone Rangers Showcases Rhones Alone &amp; Together</title>
		<link>http://myvinespace.com/2012/05/17/rhone-rangers-showcases-rhones-alone-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 01:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Ness - HerVineNess</dc:creator>
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Rhone wines are alive and kickin&#8217; at Rhone Rangers at Fort Mason in San Francisco in March of this year.. More than 130 wineries were pouring samples of nearly every Rhone varietal, including Petite Sirah, at the Grand Tasting held by the Rhone Rangers. Wineries came from as far away as Oregon to participate in this pilgrimage in honor of all the wonderful Rhone varieties.
Of all the wines tasted, the most memorable were the rosés, especially those made of Grenache and Mourvèdre (the 2011 from Baiocchi Wines in Fair Play, the 2011 MSG Rosé from Curtis in Los Olivos and the 2010 Cote Rosé from Davis Family in Healdsburg were standouts), with the 2011 Rosé of Grenache and Cinsault from Minassian-Young in Paso Robles being my top pick in this category.
Varietal bottlings of Roussanne, Marsanne and Viognier are often as one-dimensional as conversing with someone wearing headphones or earplugs, but when they are layered together like a well-built vanilla cake filled with lemon pudding and topped with fluffy white coconut topped frosting, they are hard to beat.
Some of the top white blends to explore include: the 2009 Vio-based blend from Calcareous (Paso) and the right on target 2011 Quady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons From Pinot Paradise in the Santa Cruz Mountains</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Ness - HerVineNess</dc:creator>
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Winemaker Alison Crowe, currently with Plata Wine Partners, LLC, knows a thing or two about the Santa Cruz Mountains.
She did a stint as assistant winemaker at Bonny Doon, with Randall Grahm, in the late 1990s, and then spent a vintage at Byington, where one of her mentors, Don Blackburn, served as winemaker for a time. So, she knows the trials and tribulations of pinot noir, and has learned to respect it.
Crowe’s presentation on “The Flavor Journey—Faults and Triumphs,” at the 8th annual Pinot Paradise Technical Session, held April 1, 2012 in Campbell, CA, dealt with the factors contributing to flavors in the vineyard and in wine, specifically pinot noir.  Touching on some of the techniques she’s learned, both from her experience at Chalone in 1995, where she learned a lot about traditional winemaking methods, and from Randall Grahm’s endless and often crazy experimental pursuits, led her to settle on minimal intervention.
She says, “For me, a pared down approach works, especially for pinot noir.”
The most important day in the life of a wine, according to Allison, is the day you pick. It’s all about the chemistry and the flavors, and you’d better get it right, as you’ve pretty much determined that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wily Whites &amp; Silky Pinots from The Boonies of Oregon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Ness - HerVineNess</dc:creator>
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Few outside of Oregon have heard of the Umpqua Valley, an area of about 5k square miles that courses a square with boundary points on I-5 from Roseburg to Eugene and stretching from Crater Lake to the East to the Pacific coast. It&#8217;s vast, tree-filled and spectacularly rural, given to sheep, cattle, vineyards, hazelnuts and blueberries. 
Many are familiar with Williamette Valley, known for its Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir, and there are over 400 wineries in that AVA, making it the big dog in the kennel.
You would surely not be surprised to learn that by far the greatest acreage in the state is planted to Pinot Noir (13k acres), followed by Pinot Gris (3k acres).
What might be illuminating is the fact that over the last 5 years, more and more Pinot is going in the ground in the Southern Oregon AVA of Umpqua Valley, as growers there cash in on the on-fire status of Pinot Noir by selling it to their neighbors to the north.  The Pinot from the southern climes tends towards more color and depth, adding much-needed complexity to the sometimes waifishly thin Pinots of the north. This is why so much Pinot simply says “Oregon” on [...]]]></description>
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