Goosecross Discussion Revisited
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
I guess my posting regarding Gooscross touched a nerve. I will start from the beginning on how I arrived at my decision. Back in Sept 05 I was out in San Fran for work and took a day trip to Napa. Since I was by myself and wanted to hit vineyards off the beaten path I asked for a suggestion from the local tourist kiosk. I was heading up to Nichelini vineyard but had a little bit of time to kill beforehand. This is when I stopped into Goosecross and sampled their wine. I was told that their zin was amazing and to also check out their cab. I didn't think the wine was bad it was the price. Now Goosecross are lower than most vineyards in Napa which I appreciate but $30 for the zin was too much. I had tasted better zins at $20 and didn't think it warranted the extra money. Same for the cab, too much for how it tasted. I imagine the Aeros is amazing but I am not in the $100+ market for wine. The people at Goosecross were very nice but I decided on 1 bottle and that was the Viognier. There are very few stores around here who sell Goosecross and I don't see myself dropping that much money for shipping on a wine I am not 100% sold on. I will say they are probably the friendliest and least pretentious vineyard out there (next to Miner who is one of my faves) and that is good in my book. If you follow my postings I tend to stay away from most major label things be it music or wine and the Mondavi's and Coppola's of the world don't excite me.
Some of my favorites in Napa are Rutherford Hills (really only for their Zinfandel Port, liquid gold in my opinion), Miner Family Vineyards, Nichelini (who are about 20 minutes up in the mountains off the side of the road) and Elyse (a bit pretentious but good wine). There are other excellent wines from Napa I just havn’t been to their vineyards. I also enjoy Sonoma and a great vineyard is Trentadue (another only for their ports) and Cline. The people at Cline are very nice and pricewise you can’t beat it.
If you find yourself out in Napa take a drive up to Nichelini it’s a cool ride up and the wine is very cheap. Unfortunately the site doesn't list everything they had while I was there but nothing was more than $30 a bottle.
Any questions, comments feel free to post.....
http://templates.earthstores.com/template13/list.asp?id=6E696368&cat=15567
http://www.minerwines.com/index.html
http://www.elysewinery.com/
http://www.rutherfordhill.com/ourwines/port.asp
http://www.trentadue.com/wines_display.php?id=43
http://www.clinecellars.com/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=view&CFID=431129&CFTOKEN=83223315
Posted by mardenhill 2/28/2007 12:37:00 PM
Labels: Wine
