Chef Charlie Palmer Chooses Seghesio as Favorite Wine
During the Wine Spectator’s New World Wine Experience this year, they asked some of the best chefs in America to name and discuss their favorite wines. Below is an excerpt from the Wine Spectator reviewing what Charlie had to say about our 2008 Home Ranch Zinfandel:
Charlie Palmer
Aureole in New York and Las Vegas
Seghesio Zinfandel Alexander Valley Home Ranch 2008 (92pts, $36)
Palmer is known as a Pinot Noir guy, but when he started Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg, in the heart of wine country, his perspective began to broaden. “It wasn’t until I moved to Sonoma that I really began to understand Zinfandel,” he said. “Seghesio Home Ranch is a perfect expression of Zinfandel in my mind. He loves it for its big burst of juicy fruit and recommends matching with wild birds and other game. “When you drive by a vineyard several times a month and see where the wine comes from, that makes it special. When you get to know the family that makes the wine, that makes it special. … It’s a thing of place.”
Wine Spectator
Dana Nigro
Come Join Us Around Our Family Tables
If you have not tried tasting wine at our Family Tables, you are simply missing out on one of the Wine Country's "must do" experiences. Read below to see what the Wine Spectator and the San Francisco Chronicle had to say about their experiences.
"The California tasting room experience is not just about sipping wine anymore. Visitors may still need ninja reflexes to get through the crowds at some wineries, and a nibble of cheddar may still pass as food-and-wine pairing at many tasting rooms, but a growing number of wineries are offering visitors more intimate and personalized access.
Events once reserved for VIPs—sit-down food-and-wine pairings, dinners prepared by the winery chef, and vertical tastings—are now offered to the public. And guests are sometimes even welcomed into private tasting salons, recalling the days of genteel wine tastings in Europe.
Seghesio evokes the tradition of relaxed Italian dinners with its Family Tables Tasting, which includes samplings of limited-release wines accompanied by small plates made from old family recipes."
San Francisco Chronicle
"Like Laurel and Hardy or Posh and Becks, great wine and the right food can go together famously. It's no surprise, then, that a growing number of Sonoma County wineries are offering food pairings with some of their vintages.
The best and most intimate is the hourlong tasting at Seghesio in Healdsburg. On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, visitors can sample five appetizer-size portions with five library and limited-release wines for $25."
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