Trip to Napa/Sonoma June 2023

[EricZ]

My wife and I were in the area in February. I’ll post links to my reviews but feel free to ask specific questions too

Part 3: 2023 West Coast Road Trip - Napa Valley - Cliff Lede, Jean Edwards, Elyse, Rivers Marie, Mending Wall, Chateau Montelena and Charles Krug

So for the 3rd and final installment, my wife and I worked our way down from the Willamette, to Sonoma and now over to Napa. This was our first time in Napa (as well as the other regions), and when in Napa, we decided to go big with restaurants, tastings, etc (at least big for us). Oddly a good time to visit Napa, the tasting rooms were empty, but lots of owners in town, old bottles open because of Napa Premier. (Except we got snow, but hey who can predict that!) It seems the Premier parties…

Part 2: 2023 West Coast Road Trip - Sonoma - Merry Edwards, PAX, Reichwage, Ridge, Ceritas and Calluna

As mentioned in my first post about OR, after 3-4 years, my wife and I decided to head West to do some tastings for the time in the Willamette Valley, Sonoma and Napa. Here is the review of our Sonoma portion of the trip. Quick point - we tasted some 2020’s, and purchased only a small few. That said, I did not detect any smoke taint or issues, but those few bottles I purchased my wife and I agreed we will just drink sooner versus any long term storage. That said, 99% of these wines were “new…