Pasek Cellars Winery is an amazing find!
Wine Club Insider back with you!
I missed my Monday post due to some surprise ‘puter problems… don’t try to upgrade/install software when you have any kind of a deadline, as it can really take some time to sort out, especially when your computer has as much stuff on it as mine does! Anyway, better late than never, so here I am!
Ever tried any fruit wine? Yes? How about any fruit wine that was any good? ah ha… not so much?
Well, let me share a secret with you; Pasek Cellars - www.pasekcellars.com - from Washington has mastered the art of the “non-traditional” wines.
I first found-and fell in love with-Pasek on a Thanksgiving trip to Leavenworth, Wa, a really cute Bavarian village high in the Sierras just east of Seattle. The entire town is done up for the holidays in traditional German fashion, including a central park with shops, fire drums, a giant tree, Sinter Klaus, kid’s parades, the whole shebang. They also have numerous wine tasting rooms, which brightened my shopping experience significantly!
Pasek has a beautiful wine bar right on Main Street, and they make a number of quite good “traditional” wines, such as a Chard, a Cab-Merlot and a Muscat Canelli, but their true magic lies in the great list of “strange” wines!
They make 12 different fruit wines of varying sweetness, including Guava, Pineapple, Passion Fruit, Raspberry, Cranberry, Blackberry and Loganberry. And of each of these, they have more than one style, usually including a sweeter, dessert style, and a drier (if you can call them dry) style.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, but these are great wines! Yes, I’m a dessert wine guy (well, dessert of any kind) but seriously, these are terrific spirits! Character, taste, depth, essence of the fruit… you name it, they’ve got it.
My favorites (and I’ve seriously tried (and bought!) them all!) are the Blackberry wine, and the Loganberry Dessert wine. The Logan is a huge, port-style wine that will knock your socks off.
The Cranberry is one of the best I’ve tasted of that varietal, as is the raspberry. Trust me… you won’t be disappointed!
Even though they don’t have a wine club per se, they have an active mailing list, and they do ship, so give them a try… you’ll be pleasantly surprised, or I’ll come and drink the rest for you!
Cheers,
Wine Club Insider out!
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