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Most wine distributors sell the fastest moving wine.
Just look at your local market's wine shelves.
Sure they move, but do they really taste good?
Our goal is to bring you some of the best tasting
wines that come with reasonable prices. This
takes a lot of searching. That's where we come in.
How do we define "the best tasting wines"?
| Everybody's palate is different. But
there are some commonalities that we've found to be of interest to all
that we meet:
1) Wine is from grapes. Grapes are fruit.
The wine should have some fruit. But not taste jammy, as though someone
blended in a grape jelly cup from a restaurant.
2) You shouldn't have to drink your wine
with food. The wine should be able to stand on it's own. Sure,
most great wines must wait until it's their time, but not all of them have
to wait long.
3) The nose should start an experience that makes you
close your eyes, raise your head back and put a smile of anticipation on
your face, which leads to a sip that lights up every taste bud in your
mouth, as you swirl the wine around and around, building to an orgasm of
flavor, and a finish which slowly brings you back to reality with greedy
anticipation of your next sip. |
How do we define "reasonable prices"?
| There are so many great wines available in the $15 to
$35 range. We intend to focus on that range and even lower, when
possible. |
November 2007:
| We traveled to Portland for the North West Food &
Wine Fest. Oodles of wine. We spent a good percentage of our
time in Carlton. If you haven't been to Carlton, you're missing out
on some of the best wines in Oregon. Check out Solena, Scott Paul,
Dalla Vina, Cana's Feast (formerly Cuneo), and The Carlton Winemakers Studio. |
August 2007:
I (Verne) traveled from Oregon to New Mexico to South
Dakota to Idaho and back to Coos Bay tasting wines along the way.
New Mexico: Sad to say that only one wine
in the areas of New Mexico that I visited actually put a smile on face.
It was La Chiripada Winery of Dixon, New Mexico. Their 2005 Vintner's
Reserve Red was very enjoyable.
South Dakota: Only hit one winery which
was outside of Hill City. Mostly fruit wines other than grapes.
The grape wines we found to be less than satisfying.
Idaho: I tasted mostly in the Caldwell area.
Apparently, the grapes have higher acid contents there than most places
in Oregon. The finish on the wines showed a very pleasant acid level,
although many of the wines had no nose, not much flavor other than a rusty
taste, and were quite tannic. One wine maker, Williamson Vineyards
(also Orchards), had 3 very yummy wines (out of 5 wines): Reisling, Viognier,
& Syrah. We highly recommend checking them out the next time
you are traveling through the Boise/Caldwell area. |
March 2007:
We (Rhonda & Verne) returned from a 3 week wine tasting
journey to Germany and France. We focused on red wines. (Yes,
Germany has red wines, and they aren't necessarily sweet.) We tasted
hundreds of wines. We returned to Oregon with 4 mixed cases of German
& French wines that we wanted to verify. What do we mean by verify?
Sometimes, the repeated tastings of a day can confuse your palate, so,
we buy a few bottles of the wines that we think taste exceptional, then
we taste one wine per day to see just how that wine really tastes without
the confusion of having tasted many wines in one day.
We call this process "verification". If
a wine passes our verification test, and is reasonably priced, we buy it
to share with the rest of you. |
We are Verne & Rhonda Herz and we are here to serve
you.
Cheers! |
