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Let’s go ahead and take 10 seconds to get the Sutter Home white Zinfandel and supermarket swill jokes out of the way.
Feel better?
Hold your nose if you have to, serious wine drinker, but who can pass up free wine in Napa? After all, free wine tasting is about as rare in the Napa Valley as a bottle of 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon.
But if you’re moving about 10 million cases of wine annually, as Sutter Home is, offering complimentary 5-ounce wine flights must be a drop in the dump bucket.
Step inside the Sutter Home tasting room, which occupies a prime spot on Highway 29 in St. Helena, and you’ll find something of a higher-end Sutter Home supermarket. Rows upon rows of Sutter Homes wines, some of them like the 2011 Zinfandel only available at the tasting room, share retail floor space with its standard offerings of Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir.
The tasting experience starts with a dilemma for the wine drinker on a budget — or, those milking every bit of fermented juice from their day in Napa. Do you opt for the free tasting, or play your baller status and go for the $5 “Founder’s Reserve” tasting of five 1-ounce samples? You can’t do both. Given local ordinances, guests can only consume 5 ounces maximum at a complimentary tasting.
The free lineup of five wines, poured in bitty 1-ounce samples, is presented from dry to sweet. That ranges from a grassy Sauvignon Blanc and earthy Pinot Noir with a light 13.2% alcohol level, to a duo of sangrias that veer into the Hawaiian Punch zone.
Sutter Home’s staff is friendly enough in the standard service industry sense. But ask any more detailed questions, such as “What grapes are in the rosé?” or “are the grapes machine harvested?” and staffers are more prone to dig out tech sheets from behind the bar than know the information firsthand.
It’s true that posting shots from your Sutter Home tasting probably won’t garner many Instagram likes from your oenophile followers. In fact, you’ll probably get roasted. Most Sutter Home wines don’t even post a vintage on the label and are primarily designated from “California,” meaning the grapes more likely came from the Central Valley than a blue-chip Napa vineyard.
Still, let the wine trollers troll. Free wine always tastes better than Haterade.
WHAT TO TRY: Pretty much everyone has sampled Sutter Home White Zinfandel in their time. But how many can actually boast they’ve sipped Sutter Home’s “Founder’s Reserve” White Zinfandel? This rarified version is an especially tropical and peach-driven expression of white Zin that screams “you so fancy” – and “you have a major sweet tooth.”
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