Cabana is the first of two central valley wineries we visited at Family Winemakers 2017. (Dancing Coyote is the second.) Located in East Sacramento, the official name is Cabana Winery and Bistro...
This is our overview article about the Family Winemakers Tasting 2017 event. We’ve attended and reviewed these event organizers a few times in the past (most notably in Pomona). On August 20 we...
In our previous article we raved about Picayune Cellars and Flying Goat Cellars. But we tasted pinot noirs from eleven — count them — eleven wineries making pretty good pinots...
Rob Murray Vineyards rounds out our top six from the Family Winemakers Tasting August 17. Despite bottling under four labels, production is fairly small, usually under 500 cases per wine variety per...
[pullquote]Because we make our Pinots from just five small blocks, production is small. That said, we love new members and encourage collectors to join our mailing list. I personally set up members...
[Updated September 9, 2014. Minor corrections to pricing for both wines as well as their lineages. Route 152 is an even better bargain at $10 than it was at the price we originally posted, $18!]...
[Corrected September 4, 2014 per e-mail from Bryan Vais. We got several facts wrong about the Foray. Our apologies for not doing enough research.] We arrived at Bailiwick late in our tasting and...
[September 2, 2014: half a dozen minor changes per information supplied by Nate Belden.] At the Family Winemakers tasting August 17 we reviewed over 20 wineries and tasted at least 35 pinot noirs...
We had originally planned for this to be one long post reviewing the top six wineries. When that document started approaching 3,000 words we decided to use a more nuanced approach. This article is...
We plan to attend the Family Winemakers tasting August 17 in San Mateo. We will be occasionally live-tweeting. We have put together an Excel workbook that contains basic information about each...