Wine pickup and tasting at Rose Hill, Sannino, Sparkling Pointe, Pellegrini, & Terra Vite 24 June 2021
Today is the second pickup for June. We include a tasting at a new place for us, Rose Hill Vineyards (formally Shinn), and then on to four more drive-by pickups from Sannino Vineyards , Sparkling Pointe , Pellegrini Vineyards , and Terra Vite Vineyards [1]. On this expedition, we were a small group, only three of us including Jo, Carol, and myself. We built-in time for a full tasting and small bites for lunch as we explored Rose Hill and the tasting menu . Rose Hill is a new place for us, and it did not disappoint. The wine, the small bites, and the view were all fabulous as borne out by us taking four bottles (3 – 2020 First Fruit, 1 Ro ś e 2020) [2] of wine with us. This brief note does not do justice to what a fine place this is, and we will provide a much more detailed review a bit later. The second stop was Sannino, where we picked up five different wines, including a 2020 Bianca white Merlot, 2020 Viognier, a 2020 Sauvignon Blanc, a 2020 Fresco white wine blend, and we