and overall pleasure

aniseed and orange peel

marrying fruit from Calistoga

To be enjoy as an aperitif with nuts and hard cheeses or with shell-fish

(Mézes Mály translates as “honey-place”)

2021, LIOCO SoCo Sonoma County Chardonnay White Zinfandel and overall pleasureAll of the unhinged hyperbole about the 2021 vintage may be justified. A second year of extreme drought in California set the table for a record small crop and put the vines into high stress mode. The intelligent plants, struggling in soil devoid of any moisture, responded by setting very few clusters in the Spring. The clusters that made it were miniaturized, doll house, baby clusters. Growers were not pleased. Winemakers were though. As is the case