I ended in at the Handley Cellars sales space Friday on the PinotFest tasting close to Union Square where I not solely tasted the Estate Pinot Noir, but in addition got to satisfy Randy Schock, co-winemaker, on the Philo based Handley Cellars, the primary – and for many years the one – vintner with a certified natural winery within the coastal inland Mendocino region famous for its Pinot. Don’t be delay by the outward appearance of the winery, its mix of remaining Soviet-kolkhoz architecture with an odd amusement-park fancy decoration, there are several historic layers within the buildings, and I understand that the winery has additionally been trying to draw and entertain Armenian visitors and households in order to develop a nascent wine tourism.

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