While in Dallas in December, I decided to pull friends together for a virtual wine tasting and to expose them to Ian Devereux White and his winery Smith Devereux. I chose three wines from his collection, the SB White Blend, No. 3 California Red Blend and IBEX Merlot. I’ve written about Ian before and how…
After three and a half days of tasting great wine, having good food and enjoying amazing weather, the day came too quickly to head back to Wisconsin. We checked out of the loft and headed to Yountville for our final tasting of the long weekend. We ended where we started at Handwritten Wines. We were…
We didn’t use a driver for Sunday, we started close to where we stayed, another new winery recommended by Gary. Fortunati Vineyards hosted us for our first tasting. What a lovely couple that owns the winery Gary and Ellen Luchtel, Gary is the winemaker. The name Fortunati means Lucky or Fortunate in Italian, a fun…
Every morning while enjoying our coffee and breakfast, we watched the hot air balloons float from Yountville down to Napa. It was the perfect way to start each day. And we were able to enjoy these blue skies all weekend. Tasting #1: Frank Family Vineyards Regan came to pick us up early because our first…
When I initially reached out to Gary at Wine Tasting Driver, we discussed trying smaller, family owned wineries on this trip. He provided a list of suggestions that we chose from, unfortunately, we couldn’t get into all of them because of the limited capacity due to COVID, but he did get us in to some…