Dry Creek Valley pickups today

I went up to Dry Creek Valley this afternoon to schmooze and pick up club wines and do some barrel tasting at Coffaro. Coffaro's '13 Escuro, when it's bottled in February, will be quite an interesting wine. The 10 month aged wine was good enough that I bought a bottle in addition to my wine club bottles. Escuro is a Coffaro blend centered around Portuguese reds - Souzao and Alvarelhao, but including Aglianico and Tannat.
Dry Creek Vineyards is selecting a few rows of some of their vineyards and bottling them as "MyNew Vineyard." I'm surprised and pleased that the zins do taste different from one another. It's all "club" stuff, 300 - 400 cases of whatever.
Yoakim Bridge's '12 Petit Sirah was drinking well this afternoon - a big surprise to me for PS! I bought a bottle, but then I do like PS!
Blew most of the afternoon. No problemo.

John,
I recently received my shipment of some of David's 2012s. The ones I tasted were delicious! Thanks for the preview of the 2013! I should head up there one of these days.
I noticed a similar trend in PS from the Sierra Foothills - made for earlier drinking, but good stuff never the less.
-Shaji

Not a big fan of the Coffaro wines, but DCV surprised me this weekend!

I can't remember which zinfandel, but it was very restrained and even elegant. The DCV Malbec was also delicious, as was the amazingly affordable standard Merlot bottling. The Endeavor cab was pretty delicious, too...even at so young an age!

I had to look it up on the DCV website -- The Vogenson Ranch Zin (club member wine) impressed me. It's the first year they've bought this fruit, I believe. The Heritage zin is, as always, excellent and a real bargain.