The Cocktail Hour: Sierra Foothill Vino Quaff Off



This week, we're pitting neighbors against each other...Story and Villa Toscano wineries.  Both are located inward Plymouth, California, nigh two miles apart from each other inward the Shenandoah Valley inward the see of Amador County.

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Story weighs inward amongst a 2006 Miss Zin.  This is a blend of 50% mission grapes in addition to 50% zinfandel.  Villa Toscano brings it amongst their 2008 quondam vine zinfandel.  Both wineries dry out farm their zin grapes.  That way no H2O other than what Mother Nature provides.  Some of these vines larn dorsum over 100 years.  The expanse is intensely hot in addition to dry out inward the summer, baking these vines in addition to providing small, intensely flavored fruit.  It takes a lilliputian extra operate to extract it.


The resulting vino is a heavy, jammy, spicy, tasting inky wine.  Done right, it's a sublime sense in addition to holds upward good to nutrient amongst big, bold flavors similar the steaks at JD's inward nearby Sutter Creek or the smoked jalapeño, bacon wrapped poppers at the Dancing Bear inward the historic Plymouth Hotel.


Both wines retail inward the $20 attain exactly the wineries volition hold out willing to cutting a bargain inward person.  Story has several half-dozen packs that tin effectively cutting the cost inward half.  I got a illustration of the Villa Toscano for $99, bringing their cost to nigh $8.25.


Which i is best?  Watch the video, above.  We declared them a necktie exactly we'd potable the heavy, bold Villa Toscano acre sitting inward forepart of a roaring burn on a wintertime black acre the Story vino goes improve inward an outdoor setting thank you lot to the lightening resultant of the mission grapes inward their wine.


Cheers!





 Darryl
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