It’s late, but I’m all revved up after a night of tasting fine wines - if not also young wines. So I’m vinoblogging after an hour on the train home. But I’ll keep it somewhat pared down, if I can. I gotta sleep! To wit:

Faces
El Jefe y Fermento of Twisted Oak Winery; Alyssa Rapp (co-host), Bayard Collins, Ainsley Hines, Kathryn, Alyssa’s boyfriend Hal Morris (honestly?), all not necessarily Bottlenotes.com folk; Cornelius Geary of RadCru and co-host; Bill Canihan of Canihan Family Cellars; Steve Ross of Girard; Melanie Hoffman from Diaz Communications; and a host of others who’d either run out of business cards, run out of wine, or run out of the building.

Delight of the evening
Talking at length with Stephen Yafa of Segue Winery who had made a 2005 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir that I had panned last year. But oh boy, Steve’s steered my rudder clear ’round with his latest effort, a 2006 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir from DuNah Vineyard. In our conversation, Steve dropped a nugget or two about the DuNah Vineyard, but with holding one rarely-empty wine glass and three conversations going simultaneously most of the evening, my retention level is not at this moment very elevated. Nevertheless I hope to get Stephen to talk about the vineyard, specifically, for this blog. Geez, I’m rambling already! Well, I’m just glad Steve and I connected.

Wine 2.0
Why were two seeming competitors co-hosting an event (Alyssa, Cornelius)? “Well, we’re not really sure what it means yet, but Wine 2.0 has somehow brought us together tonight. We love wine, we’re a community, and we come together to celebrate wine.”

Oh! Words dear dear to my heart. And yet the marketing of this event was entirely driven via Facebook.

Makes ya think, don’t it? And I think Cornelius and Alyssa got somethin’.

I suspect we won’t ever know what Wine 2.0 really is. At least not until Wine 3.0 arrives, somewhere down the trail we’re all walkin’.

~winehiker

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