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Courtesy BluenoseWines.com We ran across a story in our local newspaper the Chronicle Herald this week about a Sonoma Winery with a local connection (read the story here ).  The core part of the piece mentioned that the winery owner, Paul Brasset helped Clos Du Bois get its start and was the winemaker at White Oak Winery. For anyone who has been to Sonoma, you immediately get hit with that smell.  The vineyards, the yeast, the diesel from the trucks.  It is a unique place.  The cool thing about our trip was that those two wineries were on our first day of tastings way back in 2004.  We started at Clos Du Bois with an awesome tasting staffer.  She basically set out our tour of the area by giving us the inside scoop on where she thought we should go based upon our tastes.  She pulled out a map and started going through the list, "Go here for sure, their Zins are awesome but skip these guys, they are jerks and their tasting room is filthy."  A...

We did decide to have one of the our special wines over the weekend. It was a very special purchase in the Fall of 2004. We had a very memorable experience at this winery and this wine is a great memory of the place and time. It was the end of our first day of tastings in Sonoma, California with our good friends Keith and Susan, and we arrived at White Oak with about 5 minutes before closing.  As we parked and walked towards the entrance one of the tasting room staff was heading to close up shop. We ran to the door and pleaded our case to come in for a quick tasting and promised we would purchase something. She relented and we proceeded to have a great time at the tasting table and the staff was really fun and fantastic considering we kept them late.  We kept our promise and purchased some wine including this bottle ($25 USD at the time) which has since traveled across the US and back up into Canada since that time so we had no idea how this wine might have survived. U...