Salado Winery Co.

Wine: Winery: Ambiance: Nov 14, 2010

Favorite Wine: Chardonnay

This was our first visit to Salado Creek. They are still recovering from the disaster of losing everything in tropical storm Hermine. They changed locations--uphill!--and reopend with the generous help of other wineries and patrons in the area. We met John, the owner and winemaker, a very nice fellow. For having been there only since August, and only re-opened since Oct. 15, they do a great job. Three of their wines have already won awards (all dry reds). They only had one true white--a Chardonnay--which was quite good. The other was an apple cranberry fruit wine, extremely sweet. Their Port, which I was looking forward to trying, had sold out. Since I am not a dry red wine aficionado, dry reds have to bowl me over for me to be impressed, and I really wasn't overly impressed with Salado Creek's offerings. They are new, however, already making waves, and I don't doubt that they will get better and better.