After spending three days in Bologna at the Slow Wine Fair (with 600 Italian wineries and 100 international ones) in Italy, it was a huge pleasure to taste both American and Italian wines last Monday in the spacious Metreon in San Francisco.
Here are a few of the U.S. wineries who poured at the event. All of these photos feature certified organic estate producers who wereawarded Slow Wine's top award–the Snail.
PANTHER RIDGE VINEYARDS
Winery rep Mel Wong pours the Panther Ridge Pinot Noir (Petaluma Gap AVA) for Davit Evans of Foreign Cinema.
Dan Fishman and Tony Chapman from Donum showed off the wide spectrum of their Pinot Noir ranging from their 91 acre Carneros estate to their Russian River site.
TROON
Southern Oregon's organic and biodynamic certified Troon presented a lovely sampling of their delicious, drink now wines.
OVIS and SHANNON FAMILY OF WINES
Winemaker Jeronimo DaValle from newly certified Lake County organic powerhouse, Shannon Family, poured its top Ovis wines, including an impressive Nero d'Avola.
ADAMVS
From Napa's Howell Mountain, the estate's newly hired viticulturist Giuseppe Tumbarello (formerly with Hamel Family) and general manager and winemaker Alberto Bianchi (formerly the winemaker at Newton) are refining Adamvs' estate and making only estate wines from this certified biodynamic site.
San Francisco was just the first stop on Slow Wine USA's five city tour which went on to feature tastings in Seattle, Dallas, Miami, and New York.
I'll post a few highlights of the certified organic Italian producers who I also tasted from.
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