{"id":629,"date":"2017-06-29T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T18:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2017-07-18T00:59:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:59:26","slug":"amador-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Amador County"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are other wines to drink in California’s Amador County, but the main reason to go wine tasting in this part of Wine Country is to try the Zinfandels they\u2019re famous for.\u00a0 There are wineries all over the county, but the greatest concentration of them is in and around the town of Plymouth, mostly on or just off Shenandoah Road, also known as the Shenandoah Valley, about 50 miles east of Sacramento.<\/p>\n

There is also a fair number of wineries about a half hour north of Plymouth in another town called Placerville.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t visited there yet so offer no opinions in this article.\u00a0 If you have\u00a0 several days, by all means try locations other than Plymouth, but we recommend against doing a lot of tasting in one place and then driving for some time to another.\u00a0You mostly drive on small roads.\u00a0 Keep it easy and keep it safe.<\/p>\n

While many of the wineries have built glass and steel tasting rooms, none of them come close to palatial.\u00a0 Many wineries, including some of the more popular ones, are located in wooden buildings.\u00a0 They are hardly sheds, but they do project a rustic ambiance that, overall, describes Amador County.\u00a0 There are a lot of ranches around the county. \u00a0You definitely know you\u2019re in the country when you visit there.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Helwig Winery<\/em><\/p>\n

One \u00a0feature of Amador county wineries is that many of them have restaurants.\u00a0 Among them are Villa Toscana and Renwood.\u00a0 You\u2019d better look for them if you want something to eat because once you\u2019re down the road in the Shenandoah Road it\u2019s a bit of a drive back into town, and event then there aren’t many places to eat.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Renwood Winery<\/em><\/p>\n

With the restaurants in the wineries, the wine tasting experience is different. You feel more like being in a bar and grill than in a tasting room.\u00a0 At one place we saw people sitting on bar stools ordering plates of cheese and charcuterie, in another one just besides the tasting room was the restaurant. \u00a0Lucie felt that it was more commercial and that people living around the area go there to party. They seem to consider the wineries like their local bars which takes something away from wine tasting experience.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not quite in the mountains in Amador County but you certainly are in the foothills of the Sierras.\u00a0 Thus there are quite a few wonderful views to be had on a pretty day.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also had the experience of being there on a rainy, foggy day and you do feel a bit closed in.<\/p>\n

Among the wineries to consider when you drive out to Amador County (and you will drive as there are no commercial airports closer than Sacramento, forty miles away) are Renwood, Helwig and Turley.\u00a0 Renwood is the biggest, most commercial winery in the region and its Zinfandels are widely available.\u00a0 Helwig has a rather large tasting room, made of wood and offers excellent views.\u00a0 Turley is interesting because it\u2019s the northern outlet of the same label in Paso Robles.\u00a0 We are familiar with the Central Coast winery and often buy their wines but we found virtually an entirely different selection in Amador County.<\/p>\n

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Turley winery in Amador County<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s always a reason to go for a tasting trip anywhere in Wine Country.\u00a0 There are some first-rate wines to be experienced in Amador County and if you are a Zinfandel fan you\u2019ll find much that will interest you and a few wines that you will find exciting.\u00a0 Wine tasting in Amador County is certainly is more than \u201ca pleasant day in the countryside\u201d destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are other wines to drink in California’s Amador County, but the main reason to go wine tasting in this part of Wine Country is to try the Zinfandels they\u2019re famous for.\u00a0 There are wineries all over the county, but the greatest concentration of them is in and around the town of Plymouth, mostly on … Continue reading Amador County<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}