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#winePW: Pan-Seared Padròns + DeRose Vineyards' Négrette

Do you know what I love about the second Saturday of the month? It's our #winePW - Wine Pairing Weekend - reveal. I love it. The bloggers who participate love food and love wine. It's a great event from which I always make a wine shopping list. The theme for this month is: celebrating summer's bounty. Here's  David's August #winePW invite .  I recently finished an article for Edible Monterey Bay   about some local (fairly local-to-me) vineyards. And one of the wines we tasted was a favorite for both of us and we went home with a bottle. Let me introduce you to DeRose Vineyards' Négrette... In the Glass... Have you ever had a Négrette? Before my assignment, I'd never even heard of a Négrette. DeRose Vineyards has a handful of unique wines from old-vine grapes, but I was instantly enamored by the exotic, century-old Négrette, whose name - very unpolitically correct -  means ‘little black b----.’ Not a nice name, for certain. Before 1997 it wa...