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Stryker Sonoma Winery

Tuesday, February 26 promises to be a special night at the Washington Wine and Cheese Seminar. We will present five outstanding wines from the award wining Stryker Sonoma Winery.

Louise Shelly and Jeff Kominers have done an outstanding job of putting this tasting together, and we will all get to enjoy their efforts! Stryker gave us some great discounts, some at 40%, to permit us to present higher priced wines. We’ll start with three terrific lively Zins, then a special blend, and finish with a super full bodied Cabernet Sauvignon.

  1. 2004 - Stryker Old Vine Alexander Valley Zinfandel - $20
  2. 2004 - Stryker OZ Alexander Valley Old Vine Zinfandel - $25
  3. 2003 - Stryker Speedy Creek Knights Valley Zinfandel - $32
  4. 2003 - Stryker Jen’s Blend Sonoma County Blend - $20
  5. 2003 - Stryker Speedy Creek Knights Valley Cabernet - $38

Cheees

  1. Taleggio - $13.99
  2. Saint-Nectaire - $10.49

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One Response to “Stryker Sonoma Winery”

  1. efc Says:
    February 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    First off, nice tasting that was out of the box. Always good to see what the micro wineries are doing. From this, it looks like they are not suffering.
    1. Strikingly spicy in the nose and it did have a candied cranberry on the nose.
    2. It was definitely the Prince of Darkness of the evening. I little bit of everywhere all at once but in this case not a bad thing. Dark plum and vanilla on the nose with spice on the palate that had a slight raisin in the mouth.
    3. Cream Soda! Isn’t that the drink of Speed Racer. It came in first and a monkey wasn’t involved.
    4. Well, I wonder if Jen’s butt was that soft because it certainly reminded me of…
    5. Speedly this goes down the gullet. A general lack of umph! Short on the follow through - as in football - wide to the right.