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Cinnabar tasting room grand opening June 23, 24

Cinnabar Vineyards & Winery's new tasting room in downtown Saratoga, California.

Tasting rooms seem to have come and gone over the years in Saratoga. That’s why I’m hoping Cinnabar Vineyards & Winery will make a good go of it for many years in their new location at 14612 Big Basin Way between 5th and 6th Streets in downtown Saratoga, commonly referred to by locals as The Village.

While Cinnabar has been around for a few years, they have not had a tasting facility at their mountain winemaking operations just outside of town and up a treacherous (for some) dirt road. Just in terms of post-tasting road safety, that’s probably been a good thing.

But I think the time is ripe for the public to once again have options for tasting Santa Cruz Mountain wines in this sleepy upscale hamlet. Fortunately, the winds of change have blown gently, and as of June 1st, Cinnabar has opened the doors of its 1,300-square-foot tasting room to the public. Indeed, their Grand Opening Weekend is Saturday and Sunday, June 23rd & 24th. The hours are 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The new tasting room will feature Cinnabar’s small-production wines made by Cinnabar’s own George Troquato. Seminars will be held at the tasting room to give people the opportunity to learn the A to Z’s about wine. All wines will be available for purchase.

On the Cinnabar website, General Manager Suzanne Frontz suggests, “We’ll truly be a wine destination.”

I intend to stop in this Sunday afternoon with a group of friends to wash down the trail dust after a fun little 11-mile hike I’ll be guiding at Long Ridge Open Space Preserve, which is just up the road. We’ll see if Cinnabar’s new tasting facility will truly be my wine destination, too.

See my previous posts about Cinnabar: Cinnabar Winery wins double gold and set to become new wine country destination and A nice note from George Troquato, winemaker at Cinnabar.

~winehiker

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