![]() ![]() A nice evolution! Wine guide Emma holding court Now there are multiple tasting areas, including a large space in the back for groups and events. Over time, the wine production was moved to another unit and the tasting space expanded to fill the void. At first, the tasting room was a small part of the overall space, with most of the property used for making wine. We have visited Nottingham Cellars many times over the years. Chances are good that there’s even a food truck within a block on any given weekend. Quite a lot of good wine being poured in 100 yards! Park once and spend the rest of the day tasting. Nottingham Cellars is part of a strip center on Vasco Road that also hosts Occasio Winery, McKahn Family Cellars and Longevity Wines. We recently realized that our last visit to Nottingham Cellars was too far in the past. A goal that is well worth the dedication. Believes that if a winery has more than 10 employees, it's probably too big.Livermore has so many fun and growing wineries! Keeping up with them is a challenging and rewarding activity, requiring focus and stamina. What a great day of tasting, without moving the car once!Ībout the Author: John grills a mean steak and is always in the market for another wine fridge. With thanks to Rebecca and an armload of wine, we happily traipsed back to our car, now laden with wine from three wineries. With captivating fruit aromas and amazing, nuanced spicey cherry flavors, this wine demanded to join our Take Home list. Our next taste won a lot of fans: their 2015 Vineyard Designate Cabernet Sauvignon. A 2014 Micro-Lot Reserve Petit Verdot was next, showing mild aromas and flavors of hot plums and boysenberries. A few years in the cellar will soften this wine to a fine luster. This blend of 35% Petite Sirah, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 15% Malbec had a black cherry nose and a cascade of fruit leading to a mildly tannic finish. A few years in the cellar will bring out the full potential of this fabulous wine! ![]() Made from 85% Cabernet Franc, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Petit Verdot, we loved the dark cherry, plum and tobacco notes. Our next taste was a bit hit: the 2014 “The Hill” blend. Not as dry as many modern Rosés, this wine showed notes of cherry, peach, and apricot. Their 2017 Rosé of Merlot was next, made with a splash of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. We tasted tropical fruits and figs and honeysuckle, all taking turns on our palate. Rebecca started us with their 2017 Sauvignon Blanc. Our friends took on the Vasco Ubano flight to maintain balance to the force. We met wine guide Rebecca and selected a Nottingham flight for this tasting. The Nottingham label focuses on Bordeaux style wines while the Vasco Urbano label focuses on micro-lot wines from Livermore vineyards. There are two tasting flights: a Nottingham flight and a Vasco Urbano flight. ![]() We settled around an outdoor table and sent scouts into the tasting room to shuttle tastes back and forth. With outdoor tables, indoor tables, and several long tasting bars, there’s a style of tasting for every occasion. We discovered that we were overdue visiting a perennial favorite: Nottingham Cellars!Īfter enjoying tastings at Embodied Wines and McKahn Family Cellars, we walked a few yards down the sidewalk to Nottingham Cellars, one of the original tasting rooms in what has become a solid block of tasting rooms. Only through rigorous planning and focus (yeah, right) that we are able to keep up with even a fraction of the new things happening with Livermore wine. With so many wonderful wineries in Livermore, it is a worthy challenge to check with even half of them on an annual basis. ![]()
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