Wine with the family

Arger-Martucci is a family run gem of a vineyard offering up gaggles of fun and fabulous wine. If recent wine tasting and tours have left you feeling more like a fly on the pavement at the Tour de France, as opposed to special wine tasting being you might want to make a pit stop at A-M. This boutique family winery brings you into a land where friends can go into business together with sparkling results: a bounty of fruitful vino offspring. The Arger and Martucci clans joined forces over ten years ago and in that short span of time they’ve produced a bounty of slurp-worthy wines. Their goods run the gamut from a spicy bone-dry Viognier (succulent on hot summer night), to an award wining Atlas Peak Syrah (rich in texture, long in finish, bursting with cherry goodness), and the red god-like goodness just keeps on building. A red blend dubbed Odyssey was their flagship Bourdoux blend and with one sip I felt like I was in transported to another country and another time. They sealed my wine tasting deal with a mountain of hefty reds (too many to count) ending with a Cab Franc and Petite Syrah. By this point in the tasting I was so far under the spell of their vino I can’t tell you which was my favorite because they were all so damn good down to the last strong supple and oh so sweet swig. And if good wine wasn’t enough, they pull you into their own backyard, amidst swaying oak trees, a pristine pool peppered with picnic tables, proving that fine wine, friends and family do mix. And if you still don’t believe me, you will once you stop off and meet the friendly folks at Arger-Martuccci, you’ll feel like one of the family, if only for the day. Wacky WinSense Rating: 4.75 grapes