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elizabeth
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Your favorite Baja Wine
What's your favorite baja red and favorite baja white...all price ranges?
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The Gull
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Casa da Piedra
Vino de Piedra - Their Red wine. $45
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Gull--what kind of red is Vino de Piedra? Is it comparable to a $45 bottle from, say, Paso Robles.
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Mine is Chardonnay Piedra del Sol 2000.
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Monte Xanic Mixto (Cabernet/Merlot?). Lovely, lovely consistent wine, an award winner in the Paris wine competitions. When we visited the winery
last November with our houseguests, French winery owners, the winemaker sold our friends a special bottle of something that was done in a very small
batch that had the Europeans excited. Our houseguests didn't share the bottle with us, just advised me (in hushed tones) to go back in the late
summer of this year and see if I could get some.
I have heard very good things about Vinas Liceaga, Chateau Camou and Piedra, but don't have direct experience.
All of these wineries are located in the Guadalupe Valle, on the Ensenada/Tecate Highway 3.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Gull--what kind of red is Vino de Piedra? Is it comparable to a $45 bottle from, say, Paso Robles. |
The diminshed case of 1997 Tinto I have is Cabernet and Tempranillo.
Paso Robles, any particular winery, year and grape?
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Chateau el Martes Pasado....bold, yet charming.
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Gull--how about a bottle of Le Cuvier Pimiento Red --Paso Robles, or Domain Alfred Pinot Noir--Edna Valley/Chamisal Vineyard? Any year--they're all
good!
What I'm wondering is if a $45 bottle from Guadalupe Valley is as good comparably to a similar priced wine in California.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Gull--how about a bottle of Le Cuvier Pimiento Red --Paso Robles, or Domain Alfred Pinot Noir--Edna Valley/Chamisal Vineyard? Any year--they're all
good!
What I'm wondering is if a $45 bottle from Guadalupe Valley is as good comparably to a similar priced wine in California. |
Haven't tasted Pentimento as the quantities have not been large enough for me to acquire one.
Call it personal taste, but I have shied away from Domain Alfred Pinot Noir because of the unflitered, unfined nature of it. I used to get a
significant portion of my wine that way, but as I get older, I like it clean. I have tasted the Pinot Noir and Piedras is definitely more complex.
It would be worth a trip out to the winery, they are pouring it. Hugo or Julio will likely be there. If not, you can find Hugo out with Don Miller
at Adobe Guadalupe Vineyard. Also I agree with Gypsy Jan, a sampling of Monte Xanic as you pass it would also be a "must drink".
Spend $50 on gas and get a free taste of some great wine.
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Thanks for the info Gull.....by the way try the Pentimento if you get the chance--its a big fat luscious red, not as big as Ridge Montebello but darn
good. I'll schedule a trip to Guadalupe Valley this winter.
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Bruce R Leech
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Elizabeth I have been trying for the last 24 hours to come up with an answer for you on this thread but I cannot. the reason is the Baja wines are
vary inconsistent in the quality and structure. once in a while I find one that is OK but it doesn't last long. I think you know that I am one who
likes to support Baja and Mexican Products and business. but in this case I am guilty of buying foreign wines most of the time. in Mexico I like to
drink the wines from chili and Argentina . the problem with the wines of Baja is not the grapes as they grow exultant grapes here . the problem lies
in the making of the wine. you cant cut corners in making a fine wine. and the winemakers here are vary good at cutting corners and they pay for it in
the quality of the product they produce. wine making is an art with a lot of science mixed in.
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P.S. probably my favorite wine that I use for every day and for cooking is Gato Negro Cabernet or merlot.
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Bruce
Los Vascos Cab from Chile. Very consistent. Cool price at $14
Try the Piedras anyway.
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Gull I like that one vary much it is a good wine.it is real fruity and it has a beautiful finish.
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from the Wine Bank in downtown
SD i got a few bottles of LA Cetto's nebbollio, forget the year, think it was new - 2002 release, but it was around 7 or 8 bucks - i found it quite
good and went back for a case expecting to cellar some and anticipating it would later drink like a $30 given some time - krapp - they were out!
snooze.....lose.
Hey gypsy jan, next time i'd look for different house guests! I'd a
shared....friends are more important than grape juice....
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Bruce R Leech
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Mike where is Wine Bank in downtown? is that in cabo or something?
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There will be Baja wine tasting at the Pyramid Resort Book Event on April 23 (noon-6)... Km. 57, free road, Plaza Del Mar south entrance, exit Toll
Hwy. 1-D at Alistos/La Mision and drive north on the free road a km..
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Bruce, its in downtown san diego
by the gas lamp district, a very nice wine shoppe.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
Chateau el Martes Pasado....bold, yet charming. |
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Without a doubt, Duetto--Santo Tomas, 97,98?
Probably way overpriced now, originally $20. It was a joint venture with Wente Bros.
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