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Virginie Boone is the staff wine writer at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, where she also contributes to a quarterly food/wine magazine called Savor and dishes out a daily wine blog called WineAbout.
Cool-Climate Syrah in Sonoma
Sonoma County winemakers are searching out the perfect marriage of locale and climate to produce noble cool-climate syrah. “This is, honestly, one of the best places in the world to grow syrah,” said winemaker John Holdredge, who makes a cool-climate syrah from a Russian River Valley vineyard called Lovers Lane. “You can have a nice syrah from a warm climate but it’s just a different animal. I don’t think I’ve had one where I thought, wow, that’s pretty.”
