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Friday Night Kick-Off
Downtown Kitchen
5-8pm
Nancy & Fred Cline
of Cline Winery, California
Pomelo Sauvignon Blanc
Four Graces Pinot Blanc
Casteller Cava Rose
Padrillos Malbec
Windmill Old Vine Zinfandel
Cline Cashmere
Cline Late Harvest Mourvedre Dessert Wine
Patrick Nash
Tom Poor
Chef Leonard
Paul Dyer
& Tyler Mullen
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Cline Vineyard Story and their ties to the Jacuzzi Family
In the latter part of the 1800s, Oakley, Contra Costa County was a booming farming community with thousands of acres of orchards and healthy vineyards. Fred Cline's maternal grandfather, Valeriano Jacuzzi of pump and spa fame, called this place home. On summer visits to his grandparents, Fred learned both the love of agricultural life and the mysteries of vinifying grapes into wine. These lessons led Fred to obtain a degree in Agriculture Management from U.C. Davis. In 1982, with an inheritance from his grandfather, Fred founded Cline Cellars near Oakley, California. Here, he preserved and restored many ancient vine sites to their rightful reign as premier California wine lands. In 1991, Fred and his wife Nancy relocated the winery from Oakley to the Carneros region of Sonoma County on a historic 350-acre estate with new vineyards and facilities. While much of the cool Carneros region is planted to Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Merlot, Fred pioneered the planting of Rhône varietals including Syrah, Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne.
Nancy and Fred also own the Jacuzzi Vineyards which is conveniently located across the street from Cline Vineyards.
  Cline/Jacuzzi Goaters Cline/Jacuzzi Sheepters Controlling weeds in the vineyard is vital. Competition with the vine for water and tangling up the fruit can cause problems at time of picking. Broadleaf weeds, existing mostly in weaker soils, have also been known to cause vineyard problems. To keep problems at bay we rely heavily on soil management. To assist in removing harmful weeds from the vineyards, Cline employs grazing sheep and goats. Hand pulling weeds and an under row cultivator that uproots weeds are often used as well. |
Saturday September 4th
The French Connection
Flaship Store on Route One
4-7pm
Mas Carlot Clairette
Cote Jardin Blanc
Cevennes Rose
Brunel Cotes du Rhones
Carlot Les Enfants Terribles
Please join our host Donna Quinn,
Tom Bachmann, Tom Poor, Chef Leonard and Deyan!
Picture of winery owner
Nathalie Blanc-Mares
of Mas Carlot Vineyard in
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What the heck is Clairette Blanche?
On Saturday evening, Donna will be pouring a white wine from the Mas Carlot Vineyard in France made from the Clairette Blanche grape.
Clairette blanche is a white wine grape variety most widely grown in the wine regions of Provence, Rhône and Languedoc in France. At the end of the 1990s, there were 7,400 acres of Clairette Blanche grown in France, although volumes are decreasing.
It is allowed into many appellations of Southern Rhône, Provence and Languedoc. The white wines Clairette de Bellegarde and Clairette du Languedoc are made entirely from Clairette Blanche, while the sparkling wine Clairette de Die can also contain Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains. Clairette Blanche is frequently used in the blended white Vin de pays from Languedoc.
It is also one of the thirteen grape varieties permitted in the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation. With 2.5% of the appellation's vineyards planted in Clairette Blanche in 2004 it is the most common white variety in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, slightly ahead of Grenache Blanc.
Outside of France, it is also grown in South Africa for sparkling wine, Australia and Sardinia.
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 Thurston Darling, this dosn't
look like Rehoboth Beach.
Lovey, were going to miss
our reservations
at the Back Porch!
Little did the Howells know
that Gilligan was trying to
save them from the scary
boardwalk tourists! |
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