September's Great Selections!
UP-AND-COMING CUISINE
The Ultimate Meatball
Sonoma, Calif.: Cornerstone Gardens
Carlisle Winery & Vineyards
http://www.carlislewinery.com/
P.O. Box 556
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
(707) 566-7700
Carlisle Winery & Vineyards is a small Sonoma County winery specializing in the production of old-vine, vineyard designated zinfandels and red Rhone varieties (syrah, grenache, mourvèdre, and petite sirah). They like their wines to be bold, rich, and intensely flavored, each reflecting a sense of place, its origins in the vineyard, while they strive to create wines of balance, complexity, and perhaps most importantly, pleasure.
Rich. Lusty. Hedonistic. These are some of the descriptors often used to describe these wines. However,you will hear the words elegant, balanced, complex. Yes, through hard work in the vineyard and winery,they can produce it all, the best of both worlds. Their approach to winemaking is simple, yet difficult. Their preference is to intervene in nature’s process as little as possible but leaveing no stone unturned in the quest to maximize the quality of each wine they produce.
Harlan Estate
http://www.harlanestate.com
Not open to the public
For nearly two decades, Harlan Estate has been committed to creating a California "First Growth" wine estate. Set in the western hills of Oakville, rising above the fabled Napa Valley benchlands, the estate is over 240 acres of natural splendor; oak-studded knolls and valleys, roughly fifteen percent of which are under vine, planted to the classic varietals: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. But more than that, it is a family homestead; a place of great inspiration, carved from the raw land, built for generations.
