WTN: More Urban Winery Successes (Broc!)

With a wonderful Fatted Calf Pork Chop and salad:

2012 Broc Cellars Gamay Noir Umpqua Valley Oregon.
Very interesting and fresh wine. Definitely a hint of residual sugar here in the brilliant cherry fruit...this wine reminded me a little bit of the Carrignane from a couple of years back, of all things. I am guessing Carbonic Maceration??? Definitely a hint of almost Foillard-esque funkyness here added interest.

When I tasted the wine with a last bite of an amazing pear-lettuce-pomegranite salad, I had a wine-food-pairing epiphany. Amazing combination of flavors exploding in the mouth.

Bluxome Street Winery (SOMA, San Francisco) 2010 Mendocino Ridge Pinot Noir. A rich, savory Pinot tasting of earth and plum. Balanced alcohol. Bracing acidity. Went very well with the pork.

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On the weekend, stopped at Cuvaison. They had just released a single block "Diablo" Carneros Syrah that was a major surprise. Dark, earthy, savory, and deliciously herbal. Cornas? We tried it with chocolate! and the sweetness of the chocolate brought out the herbal/meaty/Rhonish notes even more! A delicious wine!

[David M. Bueker]

Fatted calf pork chop?

I visited the Umpqua Valley back in 1999. I was on a business trip, and had a few hours to kill before going back to Portland for my flight. Visited one winery. Cannot even recall which one it was.

Fatted calf pork chop?

Fatted Calf is the name of a Northern Californian butcher . . . I agree the turn of phrase turns the head in this case!

Bluxome Street has been on my list for a bit, haven't yet had the opportunity to try their wines.

Fatted calf pork chop?

I visited the Umpqua Valley back in 1999. I was on a business trip, and had a few hours to kill before going back to Portland for my flight. Visited one winery. Cannot even recall which one it was.

LOL. I didn't even notice that!

Yes...it is a Napa/San Francisco luxury butcher that my friends (they cook, I pick wines) prefer.

The meats are amazing.