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Gretchen Neuman
VinoVerve Editor

Big Terra Red

This is a wine that I got from the Fox Valley Winery wine club. Confusingly, it is advertised as “Red” while it appears to made of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. And as a California Red Wine when it is made and sold (only) in Illinois. By Fox Valley Winery. But grown in the Snows Lake Vineyard. And sold under Big Terra Winery.

Whah?

On the other hand, it was tasty albeit very dry, with a slight peppery taste.

Hey?! Does this count towards my Northern Illinois Wine Trail adventures? I think it does.

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A couple of weeks a go, Kevin and I visited several wineries…

This is the second in the series.

Fox Valley Winery was the most commercially viable winery that we saw on our little outing. The vineyard is not open to the public except on certain occasions, but there are three tasting rooms. One in Oswego which also contains the winery and a tasting room, and other tasting rooms in Sandwich and Geneva.

Kevin and I went to the Geneva tasting room which is in an auspicious location on 3rd Street. This is auspicious since the town of Geneva seems populated with couples waiting to get rid of their unwanted visitors so that they can make use of his application of Cialis. The town bans skateboarders and unaccompanied minors (as near as I could tell) which meant that the shop operated at a peaceful hum.

The woman behind the counter was clever and knowledgeable and full of the family lore that would accompany a family business… We particularly enjoyed the story of a wine called Grandmas Blush… It turns out that the family’s grandmothers enjoyed a regular white zinfandel but were told that a redder wine was better for their health… As a result the family came up with a wine with a white zinfandel-type wine with more color and body. Ahhhh.. suddenly Grandma, physician and family are all happy.

Fox Valley also produces another 24 wines that range from dry to sweet and include:

• Chardonel
• Seyval Blanc
• Vidal Blanc
• Deux Blanc
• George’s Red
• 2004 Chambourcin
• 2005 Traminette
• 2004 Traminette
• Riesling
• Grandma’s Blush
• 2004 Vignoles
• Niagara
• White Cin
• Old Glory Red
• Old Glory White
• Old Glory Blue (not available at the time of our tasting)
• 2005 Chambourcin – (not available at the time of our tasting)
• 2003 R.A. Faltz Vintner Reserve
• 2004 R.A. Faltz Vintner Reserve
• 2005 R.A. Faltz Vintner Reserve – (not available at the time of our tasting)
• Reserve Chardonel
• 2005 Reserve Vignoles
• Ruby Zin
• 2005 Chardonnay Reserve
• 2006 Chardonnay Reserve

Fox Valley Winery:

5600 Route 34
Oswego, Illinois 60543
1-630-554-0404

120 South Main Street
Sandwich, Illinois 60548
1-815-786-3124

33 S. 3rd Street
Geneva, Illinois 60134
1-630-845-0404

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