It had been the worst of days, it had been the best of days. On the way to the first winery, we saw a kitty cat on the side of the road, we decided this would be a perfect opportunity to get in touch with nature. We pulled over and rolled up to the kitten to pet it, when we got out we couldn't find the kitten, we figured it climbed a tree. After searching this tree with no hope we came back to the car to proceed with our trip, underneath our back right wheel was the kitten flattened with blood draining from its dead body all the way across the road. We decided not to pet it.
We pulled up to our first winery."starline" of the day with refreshing memories of our prior visit 2 weeks before. We were quickly greated by a napa valley man whom we recruited as our poorer. He was obviosly of much higher intelect than any poorers we had delt with on the previos day, which was a great treat. This winery poors 2 differnt vinyards; Starline, and Three Saints; me and tony enjoyed both but prefered the tree saints, which happens to be cheaper. We decided to buy some of the three saints, but it was too hot out and the wine would have gone bad in the car, so we didn't.
2005 Three Saints Pinot Noir- nice body, tart, bitter, spicey, chalky 75
2005 Three Saints Merlot- chalk, bitter, dry 65
2005 Three Saints Cabernet- chalk, dry, empty, causes hangovers, diaria, vomiting 35
2005 Dierberg Pinot Noir- very tart, very bitter, blue cheese 61
2005 Star Lane Cabernet- poperee nose, cherry, dry 62
The next winery we decided to go to was called Brander, this is not worth me typing about. If you like grapefruit mixed with rubbing alcahal then go to brander, and then shoot yourself.
Bridlewood however was a much more pleasant experience, the poorers there recognized us from another winery in the region and decided to treat us to the reserves that arnt on the tasting sheet. This winery is worth going to, however becarefull where you step. While in the back of the winery, me and tony were trying to spook this horse by throwing rocks at it. Everything was going great until we actualy did spook the horse but it ran toward tony, who ran without looking where he was going and hit wooden fence, this is normal, but unfortunatly he landed on a pile of shit when he hit the ground. After we threw his coat into the feeding trof, we decided to jump that back fence and leave just incase anyone witnessed what we did.
2006 Reserve Viognier- apple, peas, mineral 70
2005 Arabesque- faint smell, watery, light cherry, spice 77
2004 Reserve Syrah- blackberrry nose, mild palet, peppery, tart finish 69
2004 Six Gun Syrah- soft leather nose, downy, vanilla on the finish 65
2006 Estate Zinfandel- stale poperee, toasted, blackberry, light pepper 76
2004 Secret Syrah- perfume nose, verry soft, dark chocolate, interesting finish, "MILF KILLER" wine 85 *
Beckmen Vineyards was as sucleded as Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch. We were buzzed and it was very difficult to locate but when we did, oh what a treat. When we entered the tasting room and walked up to the wine bar we were greeted by an old man who looked like he had been to seventeen winenries. He started to questioned us about where we were tasting but then began to stare at our crotches with lust in his eyes. Once we got past the creepy old guy and began to taste the wine we found that the reserve reds were quite pleasant, nothing spectacular but good enough to want to taste there again. Beckmen specialized in big Cabs, spicy Syrah's, and creepy intoxicated old men who probably ran over a small child with his car as he preceded to his eighteenth winery.
2005 Purisima Mountain Vinyard Atelier- damp mud, structure of grass 74
2005 Barrel Select Syrah- blueberry nose, fruity, jammy, vanilla, new shoes 64
2005 Purisima Mountain Vinyard Cabernet- suttle fruit, berry nose, tart,sour finish 85 *
2005 Purisima- portesque nose, complex, suttle tart, sour, no body 73
The modo at the next winery we went to should be, "if your going to produce shit, produce lots of it" At Blackjack, we discovered a giant assortment of failure which could be compared to that of the titanic. The lady that poured for us obviously had no idea what makeup was because her dirty face nearly blinded us while she blabbered on about some movie that they filmed 6 seconds of there. She poured us 13 fucking wines, and they pretty much all tasted the same, they could have jsut poured them all into one glass and made the tasting shorter.
Im just going to rate the entire winery a 60
On our way back home we decided to drop by Foley, the estate that recently purchased Firestone winery, which is fucking retarded. Now we had both been to Foley before, however last time we went there we were blacked out drunk from tasting at 9 wineries. The wine here was quite exceptional, however the crowed resembled that of a Mighty Ducks game, with no tact or class they bickered on about pointless subjects like kids in a second grade class room. I have too much class to have to explain to some bitch that you cant take a 1.5 liter bottle of wine on a plane as ur fucking carry on luggage. One man even went as far to touch tony on is lower back, perhaps in some sort of a secret invitation to his secret gay cave of wine tasting.
2007 Chardonnay Steel- fruity, tingley, mineraly 69
2006 Chardonnnay Cline- cream, pinaple 60
2006 Pinot Noir- sweet, syrup, smokey, pepper, bitter 80 *
2006 Syrah- perfect body, balanced tart, peppery finish 75
Friday, May 30, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Tasting around Lompoc
It had all begun with innocent intentions, it would be a day of wine tasting delight. Tony and I had planned on going wine tasting at Sanford winery at the wine ghetto in Lompoc, but first we had to hunt down one of the most elusive of workout supplements in the world, "blast cycle". We made it to GNC where they explained to us that the entire GNC chain dropped the product after a number of deaths, So, seeing that we had failed on this front we decided to find something to eat before we went twine tasting to help absorb some of the alcohol. We stepped into the Mexican place next to GNC on a brave voyage to into the unknown.
As we left after consuming our seemingly edible food, we both discovered quickly that something had gone terribly wrong. As we drove up toward Cottonwood Canyon Winery, we both sunk to a new low in mental productivity and by the time we got there we had the intelligent of restarted 3 year old girls. Our goal there was to retrieve Tony's business cards which would eliminate any expenses from out wine tasting journey, but tony was overwhelmed by an excruciating desire to take a shit. After he was done we left to drive toward the winery we would be tasting at, only to realize 30 minutes later that tony couldn't find his fucking business cards.
We stopped the car, got out, looked everywhere, nothing. At this point I was beginning to feel the effect of the Mexican food, we turned around to go back to the winery but I knew that my time was limited. As we got closer i felt the bowel movements, the pain, and the guilt of knowing that i could shit myself at any moment, I even had to stop myself from laughing due to the fear of laughing so hard that i shit myself. When we got there I ran into the back door and jumped into the bathroom and fireworks show out of my ass, while tony went upstairs and discovered that he had never even picked his business cards up off the table. Feeling much better I stepped out the door with tony and we proceeded to make our way toward Sanford winery.
After two hours we finally made it to our first winery, walking in there was a feeling of hope. That feeling of hope was quickly lost. The poorers at this winery were the most dull people I have ever met, they made the experience more awkward than that dream where you show up to school with no cloths on. Everyone at Sanford winery should be shot.
2006 Chardonnay, Santa Barbara County-terrible
2006 La Rinconanda Vineyard Chardonnay, Santa Rita Hills-Very thick, a hint of bailies
2007 Pinot Noir-Vin Gris Santa Barbara County- the same after taste as robotussin
2005 Pinot Nior Santa Rita Hills-New car smell, with a touch of light pepper
20006 Pinoy Noir Santa Rita Hills-Bitter, Raspberries, Jam, Short
Leaving there we made our way to Mosby winery to taste Italian grapes that were harvested in California, this was a more interesting experience. The man who served us was obviously well liquored up himself, and wore a nice hells angel style cowboy hat. Almost every wine we tasted there was better than what we tasted at Sanford, and being able to speak with people that weren't socially retarded was a bonus. I will be visiting them again.
2004 Sangiovese- papery sweet, diluted aregino, bitter end
2005 Ossessione- leather smell, goes down too quick, oak
2005 Teroldego- rose smell, spice, pepper, finish sucks
2004 La Seduzione- gravy, Cuban cigar, fresh bell pepper
At the final winery we were served by some illegal immigrant whore. Her act was pretty decent until the end of out tasting when I asked top try the wine that I was ready to buy and the whore accused me of being a fucking drunk, but I quickly replied that if she did not want me to buy anything today then she could continue acting like a fucking Nazi. She let up, and let me taste the pino, which i quickly purchased and left.
SRH Chardonnay- citrus, oranges, a slight bit of vanilla
Lafond Vineyard Chardonnay- apple, parrot, lent
SRH Pinot Noir- Bitter, Pepper
Arita Hills Vineyard Pinot Noir- fruit, bitter body
SHR Syrah- fruit, pepper, light, bitter
Lafond Vineyard Syrah/Grenache- terrible, stale, bitter
As we left after consuming our seemingly edible food, we both discovered quickly that something had gone terribly wrong. As we drove up toward Cottonwood Canyon Winery, we both sunk to a new low in mental productivity and by the time we got there we had the intelligent of restarted 3 year old girls. Our goal there was to retrieve Tony's business cards which would eliminate any expenses from out wine tasting journey, but tony was overwhelmed by an excruciating desire to take a shit. After he was done we left to drive toward the winery we would be tasting at, only to realize 30 minutes later that tony couldn't find his fucking business cards.
We stopped the car, got out, looked everywhere, nothing. At this point I was beginning to feel the effect of the Mexican food, we turned around to go back to the winery but I knew that my time was limited. As we got closer i felt the bowel movements, the pain, and the guilt of knowing that i could shit myself at any moment, I even had to stop myself from laughing due to the fear of laughing so hard that i shit myself. When we got there I ran into the back door and jumped into the bathroom and fireworks show out of my ass, while tony went upstairs and discovered that he had never even picked his business cards up off the table. Feeling much better I stepped out the door with tony and we proceeded to make our way toward Sanford winery.
After two hours we finally made it to our first winery, walking in there was a feeling of hope. That feeling of hope was quickly lost. The poorers at this winery were the most dull people I have ever met, they made the experience more awkward than that dream where you show up to school with no cloths on. Everyone at Sanford winery should be shot.
2006 Chardonnay, Santa Barbara County-terrible
2006 La Rinconanda Vineyard Chardonnay, Santa Rita Hills-Very thick, a hint of bailies
2007 Pinot Noir-Vin Gris Santa Barbara County- the same after taste as robotussin
2005 Pinot Nior Santa Rita Hills-New car smell, with a touch of light pepper
20006 Pinoy Noir Santa Rita Hills-Bitter, Raspberries, Jam, Short
Leaving there we made our way to Mosby winery to taste Italian grapes that were harvested in California, this was a more interesting experience. The man who served us was obviously well liquored up himself, and wore a nice hells angel style cowboy hat. Almost every wine we tasted there was better than what we tasted at Sanford, and being able to speak with people that weren't socially retarded was a bonus. I will be visiting them again.
2004 Sangiovese- papery sweet, diluted aregino, bitter end
2005 Ossessione- leather smell, goes down too quick, oak
2005 Teroldego- rose smell, spice, pepper, finish sucks
2004 La Seduzione- gravy, Cuban cigar, fresh bell pepper
At the final winery we were served by some illegal immigrant whore. Her act was pretty decent until the end of out tasting when I asked top try the wine that I was ready to buy and the whore accused me of being a fucking drunk, but I quickly replied that if she did not want me to buy anything today then she could continue acting like a fucking Nazi. She let up, and let me taste the pino, which i quickly purchased and left.
SRH Chardonnay- citrus, oranges, a slight bit of vanilla
Lafond Vineyard Chardonnay- apple, parrot, lent
SRH Pinot Noir- Bitter, Pepper
Arita Hills Vineyard Pinot Noir- fruit, bitter body
SHR Syrah- fruit, pepper, light, bitter
Lafond Vineyard Syrah/Grenache- terrible, stale, bitter
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