"Maybe it’s the wine talking, but the tasting rooms here tend to blur together. Mark Ryan stands out simply because they make the most reliable wine. Everything they produce is polished and squeaky clean, whether we're talking about the iconic Numbskull GSM or their Viognier that's ready for dinner party duty to pair with a roasted chicken. Stick around for an hour or so and savor glasses slowly in the art-covered tasting room. The bottles are more or less worth the higher price tag, but they also have a more reasonably priced label called Board Track Racer, if a $15 Chardonnay that tastes like a bag of lemon peels is more your speed. Use Mark Ryan as the first stop on a tour of many tasting rooms, or as your sole stop if only one's in the cards." - aimee rizzo
