Day 6 - August 3rd

We started off the day at Titus. We met with cool Christophe who is one of only 2 full time employees. Titus is a small family winery that was recommended by Angela at Hendry wines. We tasted wines in a 1910 ranch house - very relaxed, casual, low key, t-shirt and shorts environment. The Petite Syrah and Cab Franc were very good, and our group bought 2 bottles each of those.

Next was Burgess - another family winery. We'd all had a Burgess Cab before and enjoyed it, thus it was added to the list. Travis and I found a Merlot that we really enjoyed and amazingly enough purchased. Their Syrah and Cab were also very good. Travis enjoyed the 98 Cab Library (much! T...) release but I (..C) wasn't feeling it. Steve Burgess joined us and signed both our bottles (Merlot and 07 Cab).

Next was Neal. Neal was up on Howell Mountain and the views were amazing. We met with Gove, the wine maker and Alexios, 9 year old son of Frank Neal. Alexios was kind enough to show us his train set, which was up above the tasting room. He was very into police cars and Travis gave him his card and showed him his badge. Alexios continued to admire Travis's business card all through the tasting (very cute). We had some amazing cabs including some single vineyard cabs. We picked up a 2002 cab as well as a single vineyard 1540 cab.

Then came Revana. We were very excited to taste Heidi Barrett's wine and here we are. Revana has one cab and one pinot noir from their sister winery in Oregon - Alexana. The wine was very good, but at $40/tasting, I'm not sure this was worth the hype. However Travis disagrees. Travis made friends with the wine dog, a pure bread long haired Dachshund. Travis threw a ball in between sips so many times, the poor dog was tuckered out by the time we left.

Next was Chase. Interestingly enough they started us off with a Zinfandel Rose which was very dry and actually not too bad. Unfortunately the wine wasn't very impressive but really how can you follow Revana, Neal and Burgess. It wasn't a fair competition.

Finally we went to Prager Portworks. No notes taken here (perhaps due mass consumption) but I promise we did go here. We have a glass and a picture of Phil to prove it. ;-)

We were all a bit fatigued and emaciated but enjoyed a nice walk to the Oxbow market where we enjoyed a feast for two at the local Italian eatery. We finished off the day with a nice soak in the hot tub.

Current Total wineries 29, tastings 209