Current events

Last night I poured at the Basic, discussed in the last post. It is a thin crust pizza restaurant in a revitalized portion of Roseville. We had fun and and people were interested and really liked the wine. We served many youngsters(by my definition) many who have been on this earth less time than the winery has been in existence. They tasted and then bought glasses of the wine. I took 2 whites and 4 reds. We sold multiple glasses of the all the reds and no glasses of the whites. The younger set seems to go for reds and no whites.

This week friends from my previous life, before the winery, flew in for the American Wine society from OHIO and spent a couple days with us. We toured part Amador county one day and saw that since Sutter Creek and adjacent are being bypassed they will eventually become ghost towns. It's too bad to loose some history due to "progress".
The next day we had a photo session at Tahoe. Emerald bay was gorgeous with some great photos and of course we had a little snow on the ground.
Then we had lunch at the Blue Water Bistro where they had the best clam chowder I have had on the west coast. While we were eating the clouds came in and we even saw a few snowflakes. We took some more photos and the sun peeking through the clouds gave some interesting shots from the Nevada side of the lake.

Many of you know that we make a dry rose called Belle Rose that has always had a large percentage of Grenache in it. This week we traded out some 2005 Belle Rose in one of the local Raley's for some Fume Blanc that will sell better. I am tasting the 2005 Belle Rose as I am writing this and it is quite good. Maybe even better than when it was young. Well made roses can improve with age so if you have an old bottle try it . It may be delicious.

Be sure and come to our Holiday Celebration described at http://www.sierravistawinery.com/pages/events.php

As I have said before:The following I will be including on every blog I post. This is because I hope you will forward our blog address to all your email friends and you never know who might be able to help Sierra Vista. One thing I would like to hear about is when you drink a bottle of Sierra Vista wine that you really enjoy and why you liked it. I would also like to hear about what food you had it with or if you drank it without eating.

Another thing is, as I mentioned in the previous post and will include in all future posts, is if any of you know a small wine distributor in any state, please let me know so I can contact them about carrying our wine. If you don't know any distributors you might ask at your favorite wine shop for the names of several small distributors and include them in your comment on this blog. I would appreciate it very much. If you do not want to comment on this blog you could email me at syrah@sierravistawinery.com Until next week that is all John MacCready, owner & winemaker, Sierra Vista Winery