I’m not sure if this qualifies as a tradition yet, but for the third year in a row, I spent Black Friday doing some wine tasting in Amador County. Coming from Napa, I almost feel like a bully passing judgment on Amador’s wine industry, so I make sure to approach everything with an open mind and a realistic expectations. But despite this mindset, I always manage to discover some really bizzaro wines in the foothills. At my first stop, which I won’t even bother to name, almost every single wine was suspect (for those who really need to know [... read more ...]
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I've been rediscovering Berkeley lately, and will report on lots of great local restaurants. Do stay tuned.
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Located deep within the golden foothills of Amador wine country, Dobra Zemlja Winery is a modest little outpost, nestled among the ancient oak trees that dominate the rolling landscape. The winery, which was founded in 1995, is the livelihood of 74-year-old Milan Matulich, a Croatian-born winemaker who has farmed the 50-acre property for nearly 25 years. I trekked up to Dobra Zemlja based upon a pretty tenuous notion: that Matulich might make wine in the same style as fellow-Croatian Mike Grgich, the proprietor of Napa’s famed Grgich Hills Estate. In terms of their ages, Matulich [... read more ...] |
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