{"id":2000,"date":"2021-12-29T17:05:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2021-12-29T17:05:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:05:45","slug":"j-lohr-vineyards-wines-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2000","title":{"rendered":"J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"

There actually is a fellow named J. (for Jerry) Lohr.\u00a0 He began making wines in California\u2019s Central Coast back in the 1970\u2019s, first in Arroyo Seco and then in Paso Robles.\u00a0 He also owns a vineyard in Napa Valley but the main production comes from the center of the state.\u00a0 J. Lohr has two tasting rooms, the original one in San Jose and a newer one in Paso itself, on the less artisanal east side of Route 101<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The J. Lohr tasting room in San Jose.\u00a0 Photo courtesy of Travel Expert Wiki.<\/em><\/p>\n

The San Jose site is on a city street, just off a major boulevard.\u00a0 We\u2019re fond of in-town tasting in places like Healdsburg or Calistoga, where there are several tasting rooms you can walk to.\u00a0 But finding one in a city of a million people is neither bad nor good, but it is definitely unusual.\u00a0 For one thing, there\u2019s no place to park; you just find a spot in the street.\u00a0 For another, there\u2019s no indication that you\u2019re in Wine Country. \u00a0The tasting room just stands alone.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pleasant, brick building covered in vines.\u00a0 Once you enter, it\u2019s like any tasting room anywhere: a long bar, some tables, wines on display.\u00a0 And there are quite a few red and white wines available for tasting, that do show off what J. Lohr wines are all about.<\/p>\n

And what they are about is, for the most part, easy accessibility. \u00a0You may already be familiar with these wines from a local wine shop or on a restaurant menu.\u00a0 Many are inexpensive and are appropriate for casual drinking.\u00a0 So why go out of your way to taste them?<\/p>\n

The reason is that like many wineries that make their living in the mass market, they also have some wines that defy your expectations.\u00a0 This applies to J. Lohr.\u00a0 Yes, there are Chardonnays and Cabernet Sauvignons available for under $15.00.\u00a0 But there are also single vineyard varietals including Pinot Noir from Santa Lucia Highlands and Cabernet Sauvignon from their vineyard in Napa Valley.\u00a0 Even these, by today\u2019s standards for such wines, are relatively affordable.<\/p>\n

And then there are a few of J. Lohr\u2019s wines that are clearly intended to show what this winery is capable of.\u00a0 As with other makers of widely sold wines, it\u2019s a pleasure to find out that their winemakers have the talent \u2013 and the grapes \u2013 to make fine wine.\u00a0 Power Tasting<\/em> is about wine tasting, so we\u2019ll leave it to wine critics to say just how good J. Lohr\u2019s top wines are.\u00a0 We found some of their Signature series wines to be quite enjoyable and certainly didn\u2019t consider them to be casual.<\/p>\n

We were in Silicon Valley on business and took a little side trip to San Jose to visit this tasting room.\u00a0 We wouldn\u2019t recommend a special journey there, but if you are in the area it\u2019s worth a stop.\u00a0 One of the pleasures of wine tasting is surprises, finding something you enjoy that you didn\u2019t even know existed.\u00a0 We can\u2019t promise that all their best wines will be available for tasting when you go, but there will probably be something you\u2019ve never tasted before.\u00a0 Finding the top-end products of wineries you only thought of as making picnic wine is a very pleasant surprise indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There actually is a fellow named J. (for Jerry) Lohr.\u00a0 He began making wines in California\u2019s Central Coast back in the 1970\u2019s, first in Arroyo Seco and then in Paso Robles.\u00a0 He also owns a vineyard in Napa Valley but the main production comes from the center of the state.\u00a0 J. Lohr has two tasting … Continue reading J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, San Jose<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}