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Admittedly, it is not easy for Your West Coast Oenophile<\/strong> to taste through an array of barrel samples and report on them in any insightful way for Sostevinobile<\/strong><\/span>. It was an auspicious start to May to attend the preview tastings for the 5th Annual Sonoma County Barrel Auction<\/span><\/a>, an innovative industry event bringing together unique futures and cooperative bottlings from a wide array of vintners throughout the county. Certainly one of the high points of the Thursday events was the Sonoma County Innovators & Icons Celebration<\/strong>, a tribute tasting to David Duncan & Family, from sustainability pioneers Silver Oak Cellars<\/span>, philanthropist <\/span>Ron Rubin<\/span><\/a> of his eponymous winery, Margo Van Staaveren, who revived the fortunes of Ch\u00e2teau St. Jean<\/a><\/span> and Rod Berglund from Joseph Swan Vineyards<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n Still, my greatest revelation came from the understated auction lot Gallo star winemaker Aaron Piotter crafted for their Bear Flag<\/span><\/a> label from their Monte Rosso Vineyard<\/span><\/a> in the Moon Mountain AVA. Labeled as a varietal expression of Zinfandel, this one-time only lot blends in 5% Dakapo<\/span><\/a>, a varietal only found in California on this site and unknown to virtually everyone in attendance, including yours truly. Having taken pot shots at Chambourcin in my last post, I of course had to stumble upon yet another grower-manipulated teinturier, this one a Swiss-created blend of Blauer Portugieser<\/span><\/a> and Deckrot<\/span><\/a> (don\u2019t ask)<\/em> first made available in 1999. <\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps more interesting than its lineage, however, is the etymology of its name, which is apparently a corruption of Da Capo<\/strong><\/em>, an expression well-known to the musically accomplished. And for those who know the true identity of Your West Coast Oenophile<\/strong>, this takes on a delightful double-entendre. Admittedly, it is not easy for Your West Coast Oenophile to taste through an array of barrel samples and report on them in any insightful way for Sostevinobile. It was an auspicious start to May to attend the preview tastings for the 5th Annual Sonoma County Barrel Auction, an innovative industry event bringing together unique […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[590,588,589,1,27],"tags":[594,207,593,592,591],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blauer-portugieser","category-dakapo","category-deckrot","category-uncategorized","category-zinfandel","tag-bear-flag","tag-chateau-st-jean","tag-joseph-swan","tag-ron-rubin","tag-silver-oak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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