I wrote recently about the Duchman Family Winery in Driftwood, and how much I loved, not just the wine, but the winery itself. Well here's the second outstanding winery I've recently discovered. It's not as close as Duchman, but it's beautiful, it has a fabulous backstory, the wines...well, I've only had one to date, but it was delicious. AND they grow all their own grapes.
Seriously, my next goal in life is to live on a winery, or at least in a house that's situated in (or adjacent to) a vineyard, and this is what I would want it to look like.
But, let's talk about the wine. I think I've mentioned before that I had my eyes opened to the joy of white wine during a trip to Temecula, several years ago. That was the first time I tried a Vermentino. It's not a Napa wine, or even a Paso Robles one. But for the kind of dry heat that you find in Temecula--and Texas--it's perfect.
Louisa (that's the name of the wine. And I swear, I take back everything I--or any of my characters--have ever said about wishing more wines had cutesy names) is a pale straw color. It might have a slight greenish tinge, or that might have been the light (see picture). There's a lot of sweetness on the nose. The website tasting notes suggest lime zest, I thought it was more candied green apple with notes of ripe melon.
This wine is medium bodied, with legs for days! It's very dry, but with distinct notes of caramel apple and just a hint of minerality. Definitely quaffable.
I'm not sure what I would pair it with. I'd just come from lunch at a semi-local Cajun restaurant. So, does it really go with fried oysters, or is that just what I want to think?
I would also like to try it with a pasta dish, maybe something with a pink sauce and sausage.
Guess I'll have to buy a bottle and experiment...
RELEASING NEXT TUESDAY
Que Será, Syrah
By PG Forte
https://books2read.com/Que-Sera-Syrah
They may be keeping secrets and telling lies, but a little white wine never hurt anyone.
Allegra
It’s not every day that you inherit one-third of a winery. I should be on top of the world, floating on Cloud Wine, as they say. Instead, don’t you just know it? I’m about to make one of the biggest mistakes of my life. And that’s saying something. My family has always viewed me as something of a screw-up, not always fairly. But in this case? They’re not only dead right about me messing things up; they don’t even know the half of it. Yet.
Complicating my quest to redeem myself, earn my sisters’ respect, and help them turn our winery into a straight fire success, is my low-key relationship with Sheriff’s Deputy Clay Romero. Sure, there are risks involved in sleeping with the enemy, but ‘what’s meant to be will find a way,’ right? And whether Clay believes it or not, I know we’re fated. With a capital F.
Clay
We’re Capital F somethin’ all right; but I don’t think it’s fate. Ever since Legs (AKA Allegra Martinelli) blew back into town, I’ve been flirting with disaster. Literally. I doubt that woman’s ever met a rule that she didn’t want to at least bend. And, as luck would have it, it’s my job to try and stop her. I love my job, and I think I love her. But there’s not enough wine in Napa to convince me that I’ll be able to hang on to them both.
Legs keeps likening us to Romeo and Juliet. And as I keep trying to remind her; that kind of story tends not to end well. I’m sure there are exceptions, but are we gonna be one of them? I guess we’ll find out.
OR BUY THE SERIES:
POUR DECISIONS
https://books2read.com/Pour-Decisions
Meet the Martinelli sisters: Rosa, Bianca and Allegra. These partners in wine have just inherited a once-storied winery in the heart of Napa Valley. They’re living the dream, right?
Not so fast! Because, as it turns out, not everybody is happy for them. And that includes their Uncle Geno who’d assumed the property would come to him.
There are hoops to jump through, barrels to get over, and a mountain of regulations they'll have to scale. But these sisters are crushing it—and we don’t just mean the grapes. They’re making wine, falling in love, and working together to restore their inheritance to its former glory, one pour decision at a time.
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