(Dessert) Wine and Cheese

[luyer]

Belated recommendations from Sonoma:

- Dessert wine: Mayo Family Winery's 2006 Late Harvest Gewürztraminer. Acquiring more of this was a key reason for our choice of Sonoma for our most recent wine region trip.

- Cheese: Rumiano's Peppato Aged Dry Monterey Jack with Peppercorns and California Mission David Jacks' Habanero Jack -- also by Rumiano

Comments

[arilinn]

s/desert/dessert

[luyer]

Oops, updated post :)

[loic]

dearanxiety is a big fan of dessert wines, and we've gone to Mayo specifically for them in the past :)

I strongly prefer Sonoma to Napa (but Margaret River to both). Napa feels to me like a big tourist trap. The main road through the Napa valley is winery after winery after winery. They all charge a significant price for tasting and you have to request that they deduct your tasting fee from your purchases - they won't just do it.

If you treat it as a tourist adventure rather than a wine tasting and buying trip you can have fun in Napa though.

[landbarge]

"I strongly prefer Sonoma to Napa (but Margaret River to both). "

I'm glad I'm not missing that much with my strong preference for the local (Margaret River) varieties then.... :)

Another thing I like is that it just doesn't seem Australian to charge a tasting fee for wine at the winery.... I've only ever been asked to pay a tasting fee once, and that was for a $95 bottle of port (and it was well worth the $5 fee)

The Margaret River breweries don't really do the tasting thing, but most of them do sell a 'tasting paddle' - a wooden paddle with recesses to hold 3 small glasses, which equates to roughly a pint of beer for roughly the price of a pint of beer anyway...

[loic]

And then you get a paddle that you can use to spank someone with!

Wine and cheese

[landbarge]

hrm.... I might have to look into how much Margaret River wine and cheese we're allowed to bring with us next year... (If we're allowed to bring any cheese at all...)

Re: Wine and cheese

[luyer]

I'm not sure if you can bring cheese or not, you'd need to check. Unfortunately, probably not.

As to wine, the duty free allowance for entry into the USA is one litre per person. So basically one bottle of wine each, or two bottles of dessert wine each.