Thursday, April 20, 2006

A Great Sonoma Pinot, and a Wonderful Carneros Syrah

I just picked up Cobb "Coastview Vineyard" from Sonoma. Father David Cobb is a grower who sells primarily to Williams-Selyem winery. Son Ross is a winemaker for Flowers. The result is a perfectly balenced pinot that has layers and layers of flavor on a nice food friendly structure. Not inexpensive, but a great wine.

From San Sakana the "Las Madres" Syrah. Elegent is the word, fruit but a wine made more like a pinot than a big bruising style syrah... Nice for a change from the "other" style syrah.

Both are super low productions, Super good wines.

www.cobbwines.com
www.sansakana.com

1 comment:

sansakana - bettina said...

Josiah, thanks for the plug! we also think the Las Madres Syrah is quite different then others from Carneros, Sonoma. I'm looking forward to sharing more of our wine with you soon. 2005's in barrel are evolving nicely.