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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Oleander revisited




Don't wait for California to tumble into the sea.
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12 comments:

  1. O DockerMarch 19, 2012 at 4:27 AM

    I don't know whose old school that wine is from, but I'm having a hard time finding an Annandale Winery in California.

    Strangely, there are some in South Africa and Australia, but the one address I found for an 'Annandale Winery' in Napa comes back to a winery named 'Rutherford' that doesn't list Annandale as one of their labels.

    I was curious, as that address is smack in the middle of one of our favorite, uh, stomping grounds and we pass it often.

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  2. JoeMarch 19, 2012 at 6:09 AM

    I have never heard of Annandale. If they were a Napa winery, you can bet a bottle of Aunt Betsy's mystery elixir that they would have NAPA plastered on the label. Who is the distributor?

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  3. DougMarch 19, 2012 at 7:56 AM

    O Docker,

    Maybe you should ask the working girls in the county jail, they might know

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  4. TillermanMarch 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM

    The Annandale Chardonnay has a light, straw color and a very buttery nose with aromas of pears, peaches, pine and lemon. It is medium-bodied with flavors of pineapple, grapefruit and guava. It has great acidity on the palate with a long buttery finish

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  5. SandscraperMarch 19, 2012 at 1:59 PM

    Annandale Winery
    1680 SILVERADO TRL
    SAINT HELENA, CA

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  6. BaydogMarch 19, 2012 at 5:16 PM

    Tillerman, that pretty much sums it up!

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  7. DougMarch 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM

    Tillerman,

    That is exactly how the working girls in the the county jail described the Annandale Chardonnay, do you guys know each other?

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  8. O DockerMarch 19, 2012 at 9:39 PM

    Sandscraper, strangely, that is the home of this winery.

    The Chardonnay may have a buttery finish, but its beginnings seem smoky, with overtones of mystery.

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  9. SandscraperMarch 20, 2012 at 4:57 PM

    Doc, Not that any of this is important, Rutherford Winery grows the grapes, ferments the wine and labels the bottle that says "Annandale". They provide this service for the private seller of this wine.
    How do I know this, I called Rutherford and spoke to a nice young lady that explained the process to me. That would explain the same address for both wines, apparently they do this for many wine stores.

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  10. BaydogMarch 20, 2012 at 5:09 PM

    Wow, thanks Charley for the clarification. It's a great wine for the money, so now everybody go out and buy some.

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  11. O DockerMarch 20, 2012 at 5:35 PM

    So, the grapes grow up on the same vine, get stomped by the same feet, and do time in the same joint.

    I wonder how they figure out which ones go in the $9 bottle and which ones go in the $30 bottle.

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  12. BaydogMarch 20, 2012 at 8:20 PM

    When they run out of $30 bottles, they fill the $9 bottles. And they send them to Jersey.

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