Wine Tasting - The Sense of Touch
Touch is an important category of taste sensation. This is where we try to feel the wine on the palate. Here we seek to find impressions of such things as texture, body, temperature, and astringency. The aftertaste, finish, and length of a wine are all things we feel on our palate. We are looking for how the wine feels in weight (light, medium, full) and texture (silky, coarse, velvety). Try to observe how long the sensations last in your mouth. Most will tell you the longer it lasts, the better the wine!
Locals - A Collective Tasting Room
Come visit us at Locals located at the gateway to Alexander Valley in the once sleepy hamlet of Geyserville. Locals is a collective tasting room featuring the wines of 6 local boutique wineries. Taste over 30 unique wines from talented and noted neighborhood winemakers. These are small-scale producers making premium quality and hard to find award-winning wines.
While sampling these unique selections, discover the works of area black and white photographers, listen to music from local Sonoma Country musicians and be intrigued by Locals whimsical collection of art moderne wine accessories. It all combines to create an eclectic and tasty environment.
www.tastelocalwines.com
707.857.4900
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Syrah (pronounced Sah-RAH)
The great red of France’s northern Rhone Valley, where it produces the famed wines of Cote-Rotie and Hermitage, syrah, in recent years, has become the darling of winemakers around the globe, especially in Australia, where it is known as shiraz (after the city in Central Iran where it is believed to have originated), and in California and South Africa.
This is easy to understand, because syrah is relatively simple to grow and vinify and produces a distinctive, richly flavored red wine that appeals to wine drinkers who find cabernet sauvignon too astringent. It also is an excellent blender with varieties as diverse as cabernet, grenache, and mourvedre. (Many of the excellent red wines emerging today from the vast growing regions of the south of France are blends of syrah and complementary grape varieties.)
Good syrah offers a captivating aroma of ripe black fruits, black pepper, and a distinctive gamey scent aficionados often compare to the smell of roasting meat. On the palate, the wine delivers rich, deep, black fruit flavors with big, but supple tannins reminiscent of zinfandel, with which it also shares an affinity for hearty, spicy foods.
