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.