All of our managers and wine staff travel at least once a year to a wine-growing region somewhere throughout the world. Traveling is one of the many aspects of Joe Canal’s that sets us apart from other wine shops. We know that by meeting the winemakers, walking the vineyards and tasting new wine from the barrel, we can see first-hand the passion that goes into each bottle. We can then convey this commitment to quality to our customers. Rather than having you just looking at a label and a score, we believe it is our responsibility to bring you closer to how the wine was made and the people who made it. We'll be sharing their trip reports with you here on the BottleBlog.
In October 2011, members of our staff including Shannon Spare from our internet department, had the privilege of traveling to California wine country! Here is the next installment of the trip, as told by Shannon.
Day 3
Laird Family Winery
Day 3 brings us to Napa, and the first out of two Napa vineyards we visited was the Laird Family, home of Saxon-Brown and XTANT. Due to the rain earlier in the week, our host Jeff Gaffner was in a bit of a frenzy! He gave us a brief tour of the winery and we watched some of the crush.
Jeff brought us down into the barrel room where we tasted from a few barrels. It was really a cool experience to taste wine at different stages of its aging.
The most interesting thing I took out of this quick visit was that in between delicious grapes and delicious wine… there’s really gross stuff going on! We got to smell and taste the fermenting juice, and peek down into the fermentation tank. Certainly not what I was expecting!
We thanked our host for taking time out of his busy day, loaded up the troops and headed off to our final winery of the trip...
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