{"id":1248,"date":"2020-01-08T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2020-01-08T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:58:16","slug":"entering-a-new-decade-reflecting-on-an-old-millennium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Entering a new decade. Reflecting on an old millennium."},"content":{"rendered":"

Happily, Your West Coast Oenophile<\/strong> is still in business, having surmounted the series of setbacks that nearly sent Sostevinobile<\/span><\/strong> to the dustbin of history last fall. I am starting off 2020 with renewed optimism, having (potentially)<\/em> revived not only the NOPA site for our long-delayed brick & mortar operations but the overseas financial deal on which our funding depends. Also, I am looking forward to reinvigorating Risorgimento<\/span><\/a>, the Italian varietal trade organization we launched last year. And I have put in motion two new wine projects I hope to discuss here later. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span>But first let me start off this new decade with a reflection on my top wine from 2019. If only Valley of the Moon<\/span><\/a>\u2019s 1999 Sangiovese<\/strong> were still available, I\u2019d be tempted buy out the entire stock. But when the current ownership, which operates Quails\u2019 Gate Winery<\/span><\/a> in Kelowna, British Columbia took possession of the Madrone Estate facility in Glen Ellen, they relinquished rights to any of the wines formerly produced under the original Valley of the Moon Label that predated Madrone. As such, my sampling was a one-time-only treat.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span> Still, my one-ounce pour easily rated a Too Good to Sip & Spit\u2014and a slow, deliberate sip at that. The wine proved remarkable for a number of reasons. Normally, I wouldn\u2019t consider Sangiovese a wine that would be ageable beyond a decade, especially if it hasn\u2019t been blended as a SuperTuscan, but, here, 20 years later, this bottling was still hitting its stride, with nary of a hint of having peaked. Moreover, Sangiovese in California was still struggling to find its expression in the 1990s; I can\u2019t recall a memorable vintage before Piero Antinori\u2019s 2000 Reserve Sangiovese\u00a0<\/strong> from his original plantings at Atlas Peak<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the 1990s I would have looked to Imagery<\/span><\/a> or Viansa<\/span><\/a> for Italian varietals in this corner of Sonoma County. To have found a Sangiovese this complex then from Valley of the Moon would have been serendipitous; twenty years later, this wine proved a revelation.
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Happily, Your West Coast Oenophile is still in business, having surmounted the series of setbacks that nearly sent Sostevinobile to the dustbin of history last fall. I am starting off 2020 with renewed optimism, having (potentially) revived not only the NOPA site for our long-delayed brick & mortar operations but the overseas financial deal on […]<\/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":[36,1],"tags":[721,722,720,719,427],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sangiovese","category-uncategorized","tag-atlas-peak","tag-imagery","tag-quails-gate","tag-valley-of-the-moon","tag-viansa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","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=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}