Wine Wednesday: 2007 Unti Vineyards Dry Creek Grenache

You've heard the legend of the 2007 vintage, right? The dry spring, the moderate summer, the extra long hangtime through the fall. The wine pundits couldn't help but wax poetic about the sultry Cabs, the ripe Pinots. But where's the Grenache love? 

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Cep, Outside What You Know

Fog rolling over the knoll at Peay Vineyards on the "true" Sonoma Coast.Way, way out on the Sonoma Coast, on an isolated swath of land down 40 miles of winding, mountain roads, perched on a hilltop just four miles from the roiling and chilly Pacific Ocean are the Peay family vineyards. It’s often cold here. Sweater cold. Even in the summertime. And the risks of growing and ripening grapes here are great. Fortunately, though, when brothers Nick and Andy Peay were looking for vineyard land, they recognized that the rewards were potentially greater.

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Around the Blogosphere: Mumu Visits Domaine du Péras

After visiting Domaine Begude, Mulan traveledto Pezenas to the tiny winery that belongs to that estate's vineyard manager, Laurent Girault, and his wife Murielle.

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