I paid a visit to Quady while returning from a trip to the mountains just south of Yosemite. The pilgramage to Quady is one that I have long wanted to make yet it is a drive from Sonoma County. This time the stars were aligned and time was on my side before returning to teach the Wine Marketing class.<\/p>\n
Cynthia Leon took me on a tasting of the wines that I had not tried before while winemaker Michael Blaybock and assistant winemaker Darin Peterson answered my many questions.<\/p>\n
Quady is a fascinating place with its emphasis on fortified gems like the Vya Vermouths. At the same time though, they produce some solid table wines. Without the visit to Madera I never would have had the opportunity to taste the delicious Tempranillo below.<\/p>\n
Quady, California, Visao 2007 <\/strong>The nose features sweet vanilla, fresh and dried fruits and a little bit of prunes showing a port-like character sans the alcohol. In the mouth, there is a sweet expression of fruit in this light-bodied, easy to drink wine.\u00a0 Only 60 cases made so call the winery if you want to pick up a bottle. The grape behind this wine is Tinta Roriz, a.k.a., Tempranillo. Winemaker Michael Blaylock. P&B in Madera 13.9% $10.50 at the winery Quady Winery <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I paid a visit to Quady while returning from a trip to the mountains just south of Yosemite. The pilgramage to Quady is one that I have long wanted to make yet it is a drive from Sonoma County. This time the stars were aligned and time was on my side before returning to teach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-tempranillo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}