Community Tasting Note

golfwine wrote:

Friday, January 18, 2019 - I spent so much time visiting the wineries and vineyards of Northern Sonoma that I sometimes have trouble masking my bias (worth 2 extra pts.) towards the producers that I became intimately familiar with over so many years. Rare, if a visit to the area didn’t include a stop at Swan; especially if with a new guest. Unchanged and so, unspoiled but with the consistency that you want when visiting an old friend. Whereas the Zins of Dry Creek have the briary fruit and structure, RRV’s come with perfumed fruit and a hedonistically straightforwardness that’s meant to pop & pour - as part of a sun-drenched picnic or a casual meal with friends - think pizza or pasta. These wines are so true, I can’t imagine the family ever selling out to a corporate behemoth. Better to just close the doors, if the story ever were to end.
Oh, what does the wine taste like, you ask? Not unlike the small handful of wild blackberries we used to pick on our bike rides and hikes throughout western Sonoma County or rounds of golf in the hills of Novato - some deep purple and sweet; others opaque reddish and tart. Together, a mouthful of priceless memories! :)

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