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What kind of wine do you drink?

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I’m always curious to know what type of wine people are drinking.  What’s your go-to wine and why?  And does it ever change?  I did a quick google search to see what Americans are drinking the most of and it was a little shocking…

  1. Chardonnay
  2. Merlot
  3. White Zin (!?!)
  4. Pinot Grigio
  5. Cabernet
  6. Pinot Noir
  7. Riesling
  8. Zinfandel
  9. Sauvignon Blanc
  10. Muscat
  11. Malbec
  12. Syrah

I was really shocked to see Merlot at #2 ahead of Pinot Noir and Cabernet for reds.  And White Zin – whattttt?!  I knew there were certain regions in the U.S. that love their White Zin, but I had no idea it was so popular that it would come in at #3 overall.  We’re in a unique situation because we always have wine samples floating around the house, but my favorites are Pinot Noir, Cabernet, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc (although Rosé is quickly climbing the list and is so good during balmy summer months).  I’d love to hear your favorites – give me the deets!

* Top wine study results from winebusiness.com.

Poppies & Pinot (Grigio)

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Happy #WineWednesday and hooray for a short week!  For the past two years, our company has participated in Bottle Rock, a music festival in downtown Napa.  This year it happened to fall on Memorial Day Weekend so the past week has been filled to the brim with prep, load-in, working the festival, entertaining guests at home and load-out on Monday.  I took the day (mostly) off yesterday to recover and our rentals were just picked up from my house so it finally feels like the festival has come to a close for this year.

Through all the Bottle Rock madness, we launched a new wine, a Pinot Grigio that customers have been requesting for years.  Our #PinotForPaws (Pinot Noir) funds one pet adoption for every one case sold (over 13,600 shelter animals saved to date!), and it’s been hugely popular so we were excited to add a Pinot Grigio to the mix that gives back to the same cause.  Good California Pinot Grigio can be tough to find and it can sometimes be seen as a negative in the wine-world if it isn’t coming directly from Italy.  That being said, there were a lot of factors to weigh and launching a CA Pinot Grigio was a bigger decision for us to make than many of the other varietals of wine we produce.  However, when we found a really good source, we had to jump on it and bottled our first vintage earlier this year.  I finally got my hands on some yesterday and was able to taste it for the first time since barrel samples in February. I was so impressed with the finished product – deliciously refreshing and acidic with hints of yellow mango and passion fruit – the perfect pairing to some light fish or shrimp tacos, a seafood pasta or grilled veggies.

Since our yard is in poppy heaven right now, I picked a few to take some shots with our wine and wanted to share.  Cheers!

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