Blind Wine Tasting

Have you been wine tasting lately? In a blind wine tasting of phenomenal wines this week, our Lucchesi Cabernet Sauvignon was the clear favorite! Thank you, friends, for passing along this nice review:

"I thought you might be interested in a blind wine tasting we participated in last night.  Along with an excellent beef dinner, we had 4 different Cabernet Sauvignon wines, all sealed in bags to prevent identification.  We knew that three were 2005 Cabs and one was a 1999 Cab.  We also knew one was a Napa Silver Oak, one was a Viansa V Cab, one was Bortoni Cab.  The fourth wine was unknown, but brought by a very savvy wine taster.  When all was said and done, one wine was judged by 3 of the 5 tasters as the very best and we all predicted it to be the Silver Oak.  But, oh no! When the bags were removed from the bottles, we found that the favored wine was not Silver Oak - it was a 2005 Lucchesi Cab!  And, it was really good!

We are looking forward to our next visit to Lucchesi."

The Wild and Scenic Art Show

The Wild and Scenic Film Festival is this weekend! During the event, and lasting until February 3rd, we have art from the Wild and Scenic Art Show displayed in the Lucchesi Tasting Room! Come enjoy a glass of wine and see beautiful art from these local artists: Kerstin Ronsiek, Linda Galusha, Bruce Malnor, and Margie Miller!

These are a few photos of some of the art we have currently displayed:

Snow at View Forever Vineyard!

It's a winter wonderland at the winery! These are a few photographs of the winter scene at View Forever Vineyard...

A winter's view

Fall color still on some of the vines even after the snow

 

 

The transition from Fall to Winter!

Bare vines and snow

 

 

 

 

Snow and a view!

 

Wine barrels under snow

 

Holiday Gift Ideas from Lucchesi Vineyards and Winery

Who is on your Christmas list this year? We have stocked the Lucchesi Tasting Room with lots of gifts to help you check off your list! There's the ever popular gift of wine of course, and lots of beautiful and even practical accessories! See a few photos here, and stop by for a glass of wine and browse the rest. Bring your list...

Wine is always a popular gift at the holidays! We have the wine you love and many new releases for you to try! Make an event of your Christmas shopping and stop by for wine tasting to personally select a wine for each person on your list!

 

Our Red Port makes a wonderful pairing for holiday desserts! It makes a great gift, or even fits in a stocking for a stocking-stuffer. You may want a few bottles for your library for the season as well.

 

We now carry Voluspa Luxury Candles! Combine art, wonderful fragrance, and elegant illumination for the perfect gift.

 

White House Goodies is a local cottage industry that offers locally grown herbs, cake mix, vinegar, seasonings, trail mix, and so much more. Made in a home kitchen in Chicago Park just outside of Grass Valley!

 

We continue to carry Sciabica's Olive Oil! You could put together a wonderful gift basket with olive oil, other food goodies, and wine.

 

We have a number of wine accessories: some beautiful, some functional, and many both functional and beautiful! We love these antique door knob wine corks!

 

Local handmade napkins/coasters by Koala T Kraft. They are colorful and unique and wrap around the bottom of your glass. Also a creative way to tell whose glass is whose at a festive gathering!

 

Stop by the Lucchesi Tasting Room at 128 Mill Street in downtown Grass Valley for wine tasting and gift shopping!

 

 

 

New Wine Releases in November

We have been busy bottling at the winery, and we've released several wonderful new wines!

Our 2012 Chardonnay is a toasty sweet spicy wine with touches of caramel, honey, and buttered toast. Tropical flavors with vanilla accents from the oak. It has a golden color, and it's deliciously exotic and satisfying.

Our 2012 Pinot Grigio has complex flavors of peach, kiwi, apricots, meyer lemon, guava, and honey. A wonderful minerality on a long vanilla finish. It's Champagne without the bubbles!

Our 2011 Syrah has flavors of jammy juicy blackberry and blueberry. Plum and vanilla on the finish. Pair with bacon wrapped dates and butternut squash!

The Masque is a red wine blend with fruity aromas of cherry crème brulee, mocha, and a hint of tobacco with a soft, fruity medium body and a jammy, nut accented finish. A nice, fruity quaffer.

Stop by our tasting room at 128 Mill Street in downtown Grass Valley and taste these new wines!

Fall at Lucchesi

October is a wonderful month at Lucchesi! After weeks of picking grapes for many hours every day, we finished picking last week! The harvest produced great yields and excellent quality, and we look forward to putting it in the bottle! We had a great time celebrating at our Harvest Party this weekend.

The vineyard is ablaze with Fall colors! Come explore the vineyards and be struck with brilliant color on every row!


Fall beauty at View Forever Vineyard

 

Fall color on the Zinfandel vines at Lucchesi

 

Grape picking contest at our Harvest Party

Happy grape pickers when they finished their row during the grape picking contest!

Fall vineyards

 

2013 Sunsets at Lucchesi Vineyards and Winery

Here 's a quick collection of some of our sunset skies during events at the winery this Summer. We love where we live and work!