Holy crap, this Wine Blogging Wednesday is going to be a hard one. This time around, for the one year anniversary of WBW (hosted by founder Lenn), we have to drink local. Like, REALLY LOCAL. We have to find the winery closest to our house and drink a wine from there, and no cheating. I don't even know if I know what the winery closest to my house is (I have a guess that it will be one of two places, but have to investigate), but I have to figure it out by August 10 and report back here.
This is a good one, and I will be very interested to read the reports!
Well, if you think about it, everyone is in the same boat, except probably with not as many interesting options and most people don't make their own wine. I had to ask myself similar questions... do I go with winemaker, vineyard, address, tasting room, etc? I ended up deciding to go with commercial winemaking facility/winery, since none of the others make as much sense to me and I went with the simplest and most obvious option. (The one I thought was closest is indeed the one that is closest to me, I am pretty sure, now, so that helps. Now I just have to track it down. Let's hope Fritz Maytag makes wine as well as he makes beer).
I have a feeling there will be a fair amount of suffering this round. I already saw someone over at Lenn's lamenting jug wine!
Posted by: Kieca | 12 July 2005 at 11:55 AM
This is an impossible task for me. I make a tiny amount wine. Don't think that counts. The two closest winery owners (Gina Gallo and the owners of Landmark) both live 3-4 houses away (in opposite directions). The winery with the closest phone# is Carlisle. The closest winery with a tasting room is Paradise Ridge, and, well, not for me. The next closest wineries are Siduri and Copain/DuMOL/Carlisle. Pax a little farther. And there has to be others I don't know about. It's hell living in Santa Rosa!
Posted by: Jack | 12 July 2005 at 03:22 AM