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Oregon Update: National Pinot Noir Day
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/84A2F4C5-4909-4076-877D-6E40933C77BC.jpeg"/><p>August 18, 2020</p>
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PU Ranked on Feedspot’s Top 100 Wine Blogs
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/WINE%20BLOG%20AWARD.jpeg"/><p>We found out this week that Peninsula Underground has been ranked on Feedspot’s Top 100 Wine Blogs, Websites, and Influencers for 2020:</p>
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Should I Buy a Wine Labeled “Reserve“?
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Reserve%20wine.png"/><p>At Peninsula Underground we are constantly looking for quality wines at a reasonable price point to recommend to our readers. One confusing aspect
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Dry Creek Drinkability
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Dry%20Creek%20pic.png"/><p>The Wall Street Journal reports that 90% of the wine purchased in the U.S. is drunk within 24 hours. Our followers know that PU is a resource f
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Featured Wine of the Month: 2017 Corner 103 Zinfandel
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/2778B3DE-8332-4CB6-A505-9D074339783E_1_201_a-0001.jpeg"/><p>If you’re not an experienced wine drinker there are three varietals you should be familiar with: Chardonnay, Z
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Queen of Zin
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Queen%20of%20Zin.png"/><p>On Day 1 of Winter Wineland the PU executive board had a chance to pow-wow with Carol Shelton, Sonoma County’s “Queen of Zin.” Carol is routinel
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Latest Blind Tasting Results. Who Wins Our Drinkability Award?
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Concannon%20pic.png"/><p>Our mission at PU is to be a blog that provides useful information about wine to those who are not experts and who might have anxiety about a res
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PU Award Winner Day 1: Chalk Up a Win
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Chalk%20Hill.png"/><p>Chalk Hill takes home the coveted PU award for best wines on Day 1. This Foley family estate winery has breathtaking views and a range of impressive
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Pine Ridge Progression
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Pine%20Ridge.png"/><p>Our first stop on the 2020 Napa-Sonoma tour was Pine Ridge, located in the heart of Napa’s famed Stag’s Leap District. Our CFO, Ralph, set us up wit
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Oregon Pinots Show Great Range
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Purple%20Hands.png"/><p>”I don’t like Pinot.”</p>
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PU Award Winner, Sunday’s Best: Mazzocco
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Mazacco.png"/><p>For the second day in a row a Wilson family winery takes our top honors. We also did serious damage here with the number of cases we ordered. Sawyer Wils
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A Strip Mall in Dry Creek?
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Strip%20mall.png"/><p>Well, not exactly, but just south from Truett Hurst on Dry Creek Road, hard atop the eastern bluff overlooking Matorana sits a…collection…of a half
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Truett Hurst/VML: A Stroll Along the River
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/River.png"/><p>Christina is our newest taster and was on her first trip with Peninsula Underground. All rookies are taken to Truett Hurst for the sheer pleasure of enjoyi
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Pedroncelli – Best Deal of the Weekend
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Pedroncelli.png"/><p>How do you determine the price of a bottle of wine? Painstaking analysis, experience, market research, Magic 8 Ball? I hate to bring it up for fear o
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Coppola – A Lot of Fluff and One Gem
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Coppola.png"/><p>Our final stop on Saturday in the Alexander Valley was at Francis Ford Coppola‘s winery. The grounds are grand and reminiscent of the hotel in The Shinin
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Frank Family – Calistoga
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Frank.png"/><p>I know, I know, this blog is about the Sonoma County Wine Road but upon arrival a day early we couldn’t help venturing to the dark side — Napa Valley — to
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Sunday: Picturesque Cast
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Cast.png"/><p>We began our Sunday tour of the Dry Creek Valley at one of the northernmost points: Cast Wines. Because it is so far north the valley is being pinched close
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Cab Is King at Lancaster
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Lancaster.png"/><p>Lancaster is the second of the three Foley family wineries we visited… and the best. They also sport a cave and an out-of-place looking modern home at
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de Lorimier – Like Home
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/de%20Lormier.png"/><p>Dina and I were married at de Lorimier in 2006. The first wedding they ever booked and the second they ever hosted. We, of course, had to stop for n
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Foley Sonoma
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Comedian.png"/><p>It seems our trip revolved mainly around wineries from two families: Foley and Wilson. This was the third and final stop on the Foley tour, which was we
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Roth Estate
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Roth.png"/><p>I think we can all agree that whenever you are going out for a full day of wine tasting some winery must be the first one. Right? On Saturday, Roth Estste w
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PU Award Winner, Saturday’s Best: Soda Rock
<img src="https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/5a6dda85-2308-4330-b9e5-3940be4fde01/Soda%20Rock.png"/><p>You will occasionally find a winery that wrecks your itinerary. It’s so good (Le Cuvier in Paso Robles), you blow off one or more later on your list.