June 17, 2017 - San Jose Mercury News published on Sunday that Testarossa Winery has received four awards in their Best in Silicon Valley Publication. Testarossa was voted: Best Winery (7 years in a Row) Best Wedding Venue Best place to Hear Live Music (2 years in a row) Best Place for a [...]
San Jose Mercury News published on Sunday that Testarossa Winery has received three awards in their Best in Silicon Valley Publication.
June 2, 2017 - "Los Gatos is the town you drive by, but never into. By the time you’ve made it through the frantic San Jose traffic on Highway 17 and see the green highway sign to your destination – “Santa Cruz 20 / Monterey 68” – all you want is to get there." [...]
June, 2017 - It is hard to say exactly when California Pinot Noir truly came of age, but there is no question that it has earned a well-deserved place as one of the state’s premier wines. We remember the days well when but a handful of producers stubbornly refused to [...]
“Time flies when you are having fun.” This vintage, the 130th consecutive vintage made here in the historic Jesuit Novitiate Winery of Los Gatos, we will be having over 500 tons of fun!
Food and Wine Editor of the San Jose Mercury News Mary Orlin, sat in on one of the many Blending Trials that take place every year at Testarossa Winery. She details a bird's eye view of how the 2015 vintage becomes Jensen Reserve Society wine, Single Vineyard picks as well as Appellation and Cuvee Los [...]
“Time flies when you are having fun.” This vintage, the 130th consecutive vintage made here in the historic Jesuit Novitiate Winery of Los Gatos, we will be having over 500 tons of fun!
by Laura Ness In front of us loomed 7 large Pinot glasses generously endowed with some of the rarest and most coveted of Pinots in all of California. It is impossible to utter the words “Garys’ Vineyard” without invoking a hush of respect. To have both Garys’, Franscioni and Pisoni, boyhood friends whose fathers [...]
A savory nose of seared beef crust gets lift from violet and lavender florals. The wine then coats the palate very softly, with luscious flavors of stewed cherry, ripe cranberry and more herb-crusted roast.
I was starting to feel like the only person on Earth who had concerns about the 2011 vintage, until I read this post from Jim Laube’s blog, in which he describes “a high presence of musty and even moldy flavors” in too many of the wines. Here is the link to Steve's blog: http://www.steveheimoff.com/index.php/2013/12/17/more-on-the-troubling-2011-vintage/
