About Doug Wilder

Doug Wilder - Founder, Wine Reviewer

doug@wildernapavalley.com

As a native of Northern California who regularly took trips to the vineyards of Napa and Sonoma during the 1960’s with my parents for Sunday drives, visiting the wineries introduced me to the sights and smells that helped fuel my passion for wines to this day. I always had an inquisitive nose for aromas and many years later realized that all of the training I had subjected it to prepared me pretty well for a career in wine. After starting in the business in 1990 I began writing about what I found in wine for the benefit of my clients. Over the last ten years I worked with two of the most influential domestic wine companies in the country based in the middle of Napa Valley where I continued to evolve the discipline of tasting, writing and reviewing.

The purely domestic wine blog is a unique source of consumer information as it is the only independently written blog dedicated to reviewing domestic wines produced in California, Oregon and Washington. The focus on emerging, cutting-edge producers who likely have not hit the mainstream press yet, brought to you from the local perspective. Thank you for taking the time to read it regularly.

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Lulu Roberts - Executive Coordinator, Writer/SF

lulu@wildernapavalley.com

Lulu joined the purely domestic wine blog in Spring 2009 shortly after arriving from London. Her enthusiasm for all things food and wine oriented and the fact that she lives in San Francisco led me to appoint her in November 2009 as my official eyes, ears and ‘pen’ for essentially all urban activities related to this website. 

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    Saturday
    Mar062010

    World of Pinot Noir - Friday

    I arrived in Shell Beach yesterday to attend the first day of World of Pinot Noir celebrating its tenth anniversary at the Cliffs Resort. The weather for this event is typically balmy and beautiful, as it takes place outside on a bluff at the edge of the Pacific. But this year it was anything but balmy - chilly and breezy were the order of the day, and Saturday is expected to be worse.

    My outstanding wine of the day -

    2008 Siduri Pinot Noir Cargasacchi Vineyard; DW 97 13.6% alcohol

    Ryan Zepaltas was pouring this wine in the far corner of the last tent and it was where I decided to start off my day of tastings. The aroma had a dazzling floral, stone fruit character; violets and cherry with pitch-perfect flavor profile of mineral, cherry and black raspberry. Nothing else came close to this wine all day. I went back just before everything shut down to retaste and Ryan said it was all gone. Not surprised!

     

    I came close to not making it to WOPN at all because the water pump on our otherwise solidly reliable BMW decided to act up as I was leaving San Francisco and luckily the mechanic is only three blocks away. He called the rental car agency and we were on our way within the hour. Great service from the guys at Phaedrus BMW and Enterprise. 

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