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[Burgundy-Report's 'Big Red Diary'] Mendocino Ridge: California's Newest Home for Pinot Noir ...: The first winery in the Mendocino Ridge AVA was Greenwood Ridge Vineyards, founded in 1980.  Pinot Noir plantings here are the oldest on the Mendocino Ridge.  Other Pinot Noir vineyards include Perli Vineyard, Sky High Vineyard, and Manchester Ridge Vineyard (see photo).  Wineries producing Pinot Noir from the Mendocino Ridge appellation include Arista, Auteur, B. Kosugi, Baxter Winery, Drew, Ferrari-Carano, J.

[Magnanimus Wine Group] Magnanimus Wine Group - Manchester Ridge (Piper Ranch): Manchester Ridge Coast Mountain Vineyards is a beautiful high elevation (2,900 feet) vineyard on the first ridge in from the Mendocino coastline. This is a remote, cold climate site accessible only by miles of logging roads located due east of the community of Manchester.

[News] Hopland Passport: Spring Fever Fix - Ukiah Daily Journal: Back on Highway 101 on the southside of Hopland is one of Mendocino County's historic locales. At Milano Winery, located in the old hop kiln, you'll find the music of Marc Hansen and a variety of vendors selling art, jewelry, oils and vinegars.

[Montara Life] A Day in the Wine Country ”” Montara Life: Our guy Andy poured us some fantastic wines, stand outs being the 2007 Bacigalupi Vineyard Pinot Noir and the 2007 Perli Vineyard Pinot Noir, Mendocino Ridge. Next up the outstanding Rochioli Winery and some well earned picnic lunch .

[WineLoversPage.com] Bucko's New Releases - wineloverspage.com: I'm not a fan of the 2003 vintage in Oregon overall, but of course there are exceptions. Benton-Lane managed to do a good job at a very fair price with this wine.

[The Market at Pavilions] Brown Bag Saturday - BYOB Blind « The Market at Pavilions: 2005 Reverie Diamond Mountain Merlot; 2006 B. Kosuge “Manchester Ridge” Mendocino Pinot Noir; 2003 La Rasina Brunello di Montalcino; 2006 Blackbird “Illustration” Napa Valley Red Blend (Merlot / Cabernet Franc); 2003 Rober Foley Napa ...

[Oralgasmic!] Tasting wine and food in Hopland”¦ Come with! « Oralgasmic!: Only 2 hours North of SF, Hopland is a laid-back, winery-packed small town, with a couple of restaurants, an awesome Bocce Ball Court (part of Brutocao Winery) and home to the Mendocino Brewing Company. The people are nice, the weather is gorgeous (from now to October, anyway), and the wine is really, really good.

[The Pour] Pondering Pinots - Diner's Journal Blog - NYTimes.com: To respond to the comment Jim Clendenen makes in the article, “I wish somebody could explain to me how picking grapes when they’re precisely in balance and making a wine in balance became unfashionable,” I think the finger of blame ought to be pointed directly at the mainstream wine press, the Spectator and Advocate in particular, which still insists on giving dense, heavy, and hot red wines high scores.

[Wine Blog] Laura Ness and Her Pet Rocks: The robust, delightfully intense, white peppery and chile-spicy, elegant and well-crafted 2006 McNab Ridge Pet ($18 and only 14.5%), tied with a lovely gem of a biodynamic 2007 Grenache from Mendocino Farms for the Red Sweeps. The fact that a Petite Sirah tied for Sweeps at this typically Pinot Noir-besotted competition, says a lot for where Pinot is going (down hill and all in the wrong direction, IMHO) and where Petite Sirah has always been: at the heart of it all.

[The Grapevine] The Grapevine » Blog Archive » 2010 Pinot Noir Shootout - Final ...: I was one of the judges in the 2010 Pinot Noir Shootout held on January 11th at Boudin’s restaurant in Fisherman’s wharf in San Francisco.  The final round consisted of 64 wines being split into two panels of 32 wines.  Each panel had 4 flights of 8 wines to be judged on a 100 point scale.  A wine given a score of 90 or higher indicated the judge felt the wine should be included in the final list of Pinot Noirs to be included in the public tasting as part of the 2010 Pinot Noir Summit (Feb 27th, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafeal, CA, 94903 —

[Wine Blog Awards] Nominate Now: Best Overall Wine Blog: This blog by John Corcoran is one of the best overall wine blogs available. Corcoran, with his extensive hands-on marketing experience in the wine industry, delivers an extremely well written, graphically beautiful, and educationally astute blog of interest not only to wine marketers, but to anyone in the general public with an affinity for good wines.

[John on Wine - a wine blog] White Zinfandel, separating ass from class since 1975. « John on ...: When I worked for Windsor Vineyards, our winemaker Carol Shelton made a White Zinfandel out of 100% Zinfandel grapes, even though she could used just 75% Zinfandel and blended in a much less expensive grape, and still, by law, called it a White Zinfandel. DeLoach Vineyards also made a 100% Zinfandel White Zinfandel at the time.

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