Karly Wines

...or, which wine is your favorite?

I am often asked this at tastings or in the tasting room. My stock reply is “which of your children is your favorite?” It is an appropriate response. They are all different, have different attributes and personalities, and all can be beguiling. How can you choose? You don’t have to choose. You can enjoy them all.

And that is what I do. I think there are more wines from more wineries from more countries than ever, or at least there are more labels. I want to taste them all, but I haven’t enough days in my life and I refuse to hurry through them. So I try to learn about wines and regions and then sample a cross section. I seek the artisan producers and crafted wines as opposed to large producers, wines that have been made with passion and simplicity and have something special to reveal about their place of origin. So I don’t have a favorite, although I do collect wines I particularly enjoy with food Karly and I like to eat. I collect a few really odd wines I could not recommend to anybody. Often, they were at first losers, but on some unusual occasion we opened a bottle and Bingo! They were great with that particular dish we were eating. So I keep a small number of really strange wines in our cellar, and we create meals from time to time using weird wines to relive a novel experience.

New wines released for the holidays, 2008 El Alacran and 2009 Sauvignon Blanc. Visit the wine section to read about these great wines, or buy some for your (or a friend's) table!