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What exactly is a “Family Winery?”\u009dI always thought it was a single family running a winery that was on a small scale, say 10,000 cases or fewer per year. Not so, because some of Kendall Jackson’s many wineries were there and I saw a few wineries that are owned by more than one person. For example, Tandem Winery is owned by winemaker Greg La Follette, who has at least one partner is this venture. <\/p>\n
We noticed a couple of new trends this year. First of all there seems to be a number of growers who, after years of selling grapes, now have become winemakers. They have decided not to sell some or all of their vineyards to their clients but to venture out on their own to try and make great wine with their grapes. Some examples are Small Vines Winery, John Tyler Wines, and Mounts Family Winery. <\/p>\n
We also found another trend. Many new wineries are making a short list of wines at the high end of the spectrum, easily $40 and above for a bottle of wine. They call their wines “handcrafted”\u009dor “vineyard select”\u009dbut whatever you call them the wines are “exquisitely”\u009dexpensive. They’re good but not in the price range of average wine buyer.<\/p>\n I’m not going to list all the wines I really liked at the Family Winemakers, there were far too many. But these really popped out at me:<\/p>\n Dashe Cellars – 2007 McFadden Dry Riesling, Potter Valley There were 400 wineries represented at the Family Winemakers event held on August 23 and 24 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. On Sunday the media and trade were allowed into the pavilion from 12:30 to 2:00. It was nice and quiet during that time period and then at 2:00 pm came the masses. The … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[426],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1885],"authors":[{"term_id":1885,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"joe","display_name":"Joe Becerra","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Joe-Becerra.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Joe-Becerra.jpg"},"first_name":"Joe","last_name":"Becerra","user_url":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com","description":"Joe Becerra has been traveling to wine country and enjoying wine since 1965. He is a retired educator, and now have the time the opportunity to share his wine travel experiences through this Website."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
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\nRamazzotti Vineyards – 2006 Sangiovese, Dry Creek Valley
\nSarcina – 2006 Sauvignon Blanc & Atrea Choir (Rousanne\/Viognier), Mendocino
\nFrick Vineyard — 2005 Cinsaut, Dry Creek Valley
\nBarlow Vineyards — 2005 Zinfandel, Napa Valley
\nSmall Vines — 2006 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir
\nReynoso Vineyards — Alexander Valley 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon
\nTandem Wines — 2005 Sangiacomo Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley
\nJoseph Family Vineyards — 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"