Posts Tagged ‘Iron Chevsky Wine Blog’

Wine Blogger’s Tasting II: The Posts!

July 29, 2010

It’s been a couple weeks now since the second edition of our Wine Bloggers Tasting series, and as with the first session, I am so so tremendously happy at the quality, quantity, and content of responses from our guests to the tastings. I think it’s safe to say it was another successful endeavor, and that said, I want very much to share with you the posts that have gone up on our guest’s sites so far. Here are some pertinent links (in no particular order):

The Iron Chevsky Wine Blog (in many ways the original inspiration for this event, and always a very welcome guest!)

Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines (In my opinion, any region is blessed to have a devotee of this caliber; a focused dedication and proud regionality in full effect!)

RJ On Wine (one of the most disciplined and meticulous wine writers you’ll ever have the pleasure of reading!)

Kitchen Confidante (an elegantly written and photographed site that provides an excellent entry into the culinary side of the wine equation!)

A Grape Experience (the newest member of our viticultural round table, and a very welcome addition indeed!)

Barton Orchard (great “insider” perspective from a wine blogger who also happens to be a staunch wine program member!)

Luscious Lushes (to the social media & wine naysayers who may still be amongst you, I present you Thea, and Luscious Lushes!)

Cheers, and enjoy the reads! Thanks bloggers!

Wine Bloggers Tasting: Edition II!

July 8, 2010

I am very excited for the second edition of our Wine Bloggers Tasting here at Monte Bello, and I look forward to tasting with our guest Wine Bloggers tomorrow!

As noted in a previous post, the tasting will be at 1pm tomorrow afternoon, July 9th, at the Monte Bello Tasting Room.

As to our participants, I am happy to note that we have a number of returning guests from our first edition, as well as a couple of very welcome new bloggers.

Returning again will be:

Gary Chevsky http://www.chevsky.com/

Liren Baker kitchen-confidante.com (note new address!)

Thea Dwelle http://lusciouslushes.com/

Wes Barton http://bartonorchard.blogspot.com/

Dave Tong http://scmwine.blogspot.com/

And joining us for the first time!

Jason of “Jason’s Wine Blog” www.jasonswineblog.com

Jason Mancebo of “$20 Wine Blog” http://www.20dollarwineblog.com

Richard Jennings of “RJ On Wine” http://rjonwine.com/

Fely Krewell of “A Grape Experience” http://agrapeexperience.com/

As to the wines we’ll be tasting, I’ve of course been on the difficult mission of coming up with something that will ideally be a worthy follow-up to the rather impressive roster of wines we tasted for our first edition of the Wine Bloggers Tasting, and I think I’ve come up with quite an interesting theme; for tomorrow, we’ll be tasting a wide spectrum of limited-production, winery-only Rhone varietal offerings from Ridge, with a nice range of both varietals and vintages. I’m doing some tasting today to confirm a final line-up, but for those of you who might be familiar with our ATP Program, you’ll know that we’ve released Carignane, Mataro, Petit Sirah, Grenache, etc. in the past through this program, and our tasting tomorrow will include some combination of these wines.

I, for one, am looking VERY forward to this, as I think our Rhone portfolio, while somewhat small and rather under-the-radar, in fact comprises some of the more interesting wines we offer.

Cheers, and stay tuned to this site, and the sites of our esteemed writers above, to see how this tasting proceeds!


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