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Not just one of the superb Sweepstakes Winners in this week's largest and most prestigious regional wine competition in the US, the Sonoma County Harvest Fair, hails from Petaluma Gap Grape Alliance's own - a second clear-cut superstar southern So-Co wine has emerged amidst the ranks of the regions brightest and best vintages.
Pictured above right, with Petaluma Gap board members Timo and Jeff (by what must surely be the region's tiniest hobby winery) are the group's newest members Tamara and Doug Cover, growers and winemakers of what will soon to be the most sought after, not-for-sale, limited edition artisan wine in the county.
For Doug and Tamara scooped the premier award in the amateur wine making world here in Sonoma County, for Sweepstakes Winner of BEST RED WINE for their 2005 West Petaluma cool climate Heartstone Syrah, grown and produced on their country property off King Road.
Having never met a winemaker I didn't like, I know that Timo and Jeff agree that the Covers couldn't be more gracious regarding their smash hit at this year's Harvest Fair.
Looking forward to getting to know Doug and Tamara better over a bottle of two of our farmstead syrahs, but first we both have late-season harvests to get through and judging from our Brix counts, we're all scheduled for the same day this October.
If you are a wine lover, don't even think about missing out on the Harvest Fair up at the fairgrounds in Santa Rosa this weekend, what with the World Championship Grape Stomp, food by wine country's outstanding chefs and all sorts of Fall season, fun family activities including a barnyard scramble, scarecrow building contest, cooking competitions and of for extra measure of harvest madness and merrymaking, a pumpkin tossing tournament!
