Steven Kent cab franc. Had some hits and misses, mostly misses, on a day trip to visit a few wineries there a couple years ago, but didn’t go by the Kent winery. A neighbor gave me a bottle of cab franc from there as a gift last year and it was Holy Sh** good with a ribeye. Livermore is trying to link its identity with cab franc, and Kent Winery is putting together a “Cabfranc-A-Palooza” on May 31 with dozens of wineries pouring
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And it was great! Everyone seems to forget that per-prohibition Livermore Valley WAS the Napa of the time!
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Just curious - do you like your wines really fruit forward? The tastings I have had of those are all fruit bombs. YMMV, of course.
It is like any area - some really nice wine makers, and some mass marketeers. Just hard sorting them out. BUT there are world class wines there. And without the hassles and traffic of Napa.
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I don’t think I’d agree that they’re fruit bombs, but they are definitely fruit forward, for sure. I don’t know that I’ve had any Livermore wines that strike me as “old world” honestly. It’s pretty damn hot haha. Fwiw I do drink a lot of California wine so my palate enjoys fruit, but not jam, if that makes sense.
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LOL, yes, perfect sense. One person’s fruit bomb is another’s fruit forward! My wife loves the ‘fruit forward’ ones. Its always funny that she will ask me if she will like a wine and the husband/wife code is “too fruit forward for me” == “you will like this one!”
You might have had fun out at the Franc festival - they had the full range there!
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I didn’t even realize they had a Franc festival for Livermore wines, that’s cool! $23 for 50+ wineries is a crazy deal. Might have to check it out next year.
