WTN and winery visit: Briceland Arneis, Talisman

With a rich and delicious mussels and fries at Glen Ellen Inn: Briceland Arneis (Mendocino County). Rich and very, very lemony. When cooled in the wine bucket, the richness and lemony character became more balanced, actually! and really complemented the rich seafood dish.

Across the street in "Downtown" Glen Ellen is Talisman Winery. A strictly Pinot house, they offer a wide range of single vineyard Pinots that really show diversity. Although, I love the blended cuvee as well! Very interesting, and they offer library vintages that show some ageability that is impressive.

A very nice way to spend a rainy afternoon.

Hi Brian,

I am glad that you enjoyed the Arneis. That is usually one of my favorites of our whites. Do you recall which vintage you had? How did you acquire it?

With a rich and delicious mussels and fries at Glen Ellen Inn: Briceland Arneis (Mendocino County). Rich and very, very lemony. When cooled in the wine bucket, the richness and lemony character became more balanced, actually! and really complemented the rich seafood dish.

Across the street in "Downtown" Glen Ellen is Talisman Winery. A strictly Pinot house, they offer a wide range of single vineyard Pinots that really show diversity. Although, I love the blended cuvee as well! Very interesting, and they offer library vintages that show some ageability that is impressive.

A very nice way to spend a rainy afternoon.

Really....there's rain in Calif?? Who'd have thunk!!!
The Arneis sounds really good. One of my favorite grapes.
Tom

Really....there's rain in Calif?? Who'd have thunk!!!
The Arneis sounds really good. One of my favorite grapes.
Tom

The main highway (Highway 12) between Napa and Sonoma was closed yesterday afternoon. And I drove through flooding on Ramal Road that I probably should not have driven through!

Not the absolute monster storm of the century in the Bay Area, but still a lot of rain and a lot of minor flooding. The new flood control project in downtown Napa certainly helped that City.

Hi Brian,

I am glad that you enjoyed the Arneis. That is usually one of my favorites of our whites. Do you recall which vintage you had? How did you acquire it?

Andrew: Great wine. I think it was the 2012????.
I really do need to use a cellar tracking software program.

I picked it up at Rick Beard's Groezingers' Wine Shop at the south end of Yountville. A great little shop which is now under new ownership. Rick is still making wine, but he and his wife are now farmers in Calaveras County and the shop is under new ownership.

2012 was a nice year for that vineyard. Glad to hear it is still showing well. I have some that I should get out. They say Arneis is supposed to be drunk fresh, but for whatever reason, we have found that ours keeps for at least a few years.

Do you know the new owners of what was Groezingers? I probably ought to get some wine in there. A few people know that our stuff has been there for years. I always chuckle when I send wine from Humboldt to Napa. Because they don't have wine there? Rick said he appreciated our QPR and the unique profile of the wines.

A Santa Rosa wine merchant purchased the shop (and email list). Can't recall the gentleman's name.

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Thanks, Brian!