With the wine being 60% Carmenere and 40% Merlot, I expected a touch of green under ripe notes to the wine, almost a green bell pepper flavor that Carmenere is famous for. Located in the Southeast corner of the Livermore Valley, The Casa de Viñas vineyard is renowned for growing it’s Bordeaux varietals. Nottingham Cellars Casa de Viñas, Micro-Lot Reserve 2019 Rosé is as refreshing as a frozen lemonade at the California State Fair during a Sacramento summer. I’ve been fortunate enough to taste their wines throughout the years, thanks to fellow Sommelier Jeremy Troupe-Masi, and watch them grow from a more Bordeaux varietal driven winery into a Micro-Lot focused winery seeking out the best grapes from the best farmers in the area and always maintaining one clear vision throughout: Bring the best out of each grape. ![]() ![]() Owned by the Cranor Family and established in 2009, Nottingham is still a baby, but I’d consider them a Boss Baby! (ok, maybe I need to stop watching shows with my kids). Nottingham Cellars in Livermore, California falls under the Central Coast AVA as far as wine designations go. I’d lived in Concord for a couple of years and that’s pretty much the same thing right? Dried grass covered hills, as hot as Sacramento, Livermore is somewhere you drive through to get to another freeway isn’t it? Boy was I wrong. (I know I’ve spoken about a very familiar, overly oaked Chardonnay in certain ways.) I remember, while I was studying for my Certified Sommelier exam, we were going over California’s earliest history of wine making and my colleague mentioned Wente Winery in Livermore and “how could anything grow in Livermore it’s so dry and hot!” I was in agreement at the time. It happens constantly most of us are guilty of it as well. Preconceived notions occur all of the time when it comes to talking about certain growing regions or wineries themselves. ![]() The wine industry is a funny place sometimes.
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