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Time: Aug. 9th from 10am to 4pm

Place: Kevin's Vino-Rich showroom

Host: Vinna's Russell

Topic: California Wine blind tasting (55 bottles, 19 white+ 36 red)

People: 10 judges & educators from local wine industry

Media Support: JiuJing magazine from HangZhou

The best wine selected by us all:

--Dancing Coyote, Clarksburg, Little Syrah 2005 （changable smell, from suger sweet nose to nuts with brilliant ruby red color）

--CASS, Syrah-Mouvedre-Granache (Rhone style, full of floral & tropical fruit fragrance, my favorate wine today; winery is located in Paso Robles)

--CASS, Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot-Cabernet Franc (Bordeaux style, 不偏不倚)

--Raymond, Chardonnay

--Sebastiani

--Opolo (Russell's favorate, but I found a bit coarse in finish)

--Stacked Stone (smells like mint, 山楂，迷叠香)

--Schug, Pinot Noir (very fragrant floral nose, like in a flower garden; the owner was the previous wine maker of Joseph Phelps )

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We also experienced US local white grape variety "symphony", which is a mixture of Muscat and Grenache.

The Italian grape "Ribolla Gialla" which is widely planted in North East Italy is found in today's California wine, though it smells rather like Riesling.

A consensus : California's red wine's much much better than its white wine.