09/01/06 New Favorite

Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran and as many of you know my new favorite wine is usually the wine that is in my glass at the time. You see I simply do not waste my time drinking wine that I do not like. Today I want to share my experience with a Washington wine from Walla Walla. I take day trips to Walla Walla Washington and just visit wineries and snoop around. Like all of us tourists I taste wines and think that I love them  then I get them home and open them for friends just raving about my experience and how good the wine is. Then I taste it and I think what am I drinking? This is nothing like I remember. Well here in lies the beauty of this story. I bought wines for a party based upon the recommendation of Damon Burke, proprietor of the Salumiere Cesario in Walla Walla. I had never tasted them. I opened one for the world's most difficult to please group of girlfriends and they loved it! What was the wine you ask? It was the 2003 Woodward Canyon Syrah. The fruit flavors were ripe and the wine had a pleasant spicy character that made it a delight with the blue cheese we served. The wine is 100% Syrah hailing from one of my favorite Washington growing sites at Dubrul Vineyards. There were only 117 cases of this wine produced so if you don't get to Walla Walla to buy it from Damon you can buy it from the winery by visiting the Woodward Canyon website. Remember to send your wine questions to Linda at vine to wine dot net and thank you for listening to today's Vine to Wine.