West Coast College & University Wine Festival
Friends & Wine get better with time!
A true sentiment agreed to by most people, especially friends celebrating the day together tasting wine at Allan Hancock College’s inaugural Wine Festival.
Allan Hancock Trustee and Board of Director, Viticulture & Enology Foundation member Suzanne Levy created an event well received by the community and schools with wine programs in the state of California. This event was exceptional, with plans to expand to all Western United schools, including Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, with wine programs in the coming years.
The event started on Friday evening with a bbq and vineyard tour for the schools participating in the wine-judging competition. Seven schools out of eleven received ribbons from the scoring system, with each wine earning points for color, aroma, balance, acidity, etc. During the public tasting on Saturday afternoon, 2 wineries received the esteemed Best White Wine and Best Red Wine for their wine submissions. For our friends who tasted the wines, our favorite was a local producer in Los Alamos, Rocket Red. Jason poured a sparkling red wine that wowed our senses. It was a 2022 Rockets Red Fizzion, sparkling Pet Nat made from 100% Pinot Noir. Bright strawberries and Honeycrisp apples on the palate with small and tight bubbles. Perfect summer sipper.
Suzanne and I talked about more than this festival. We discussed the food vendors and the ins and outs of putting on a wine festival. If you listen to the podcast, I offered to help next year as I am caught up in the excitement of this amazing event. We even made the front page of our local hometown newspaper to boot!! Enjoy Episode #22
