Casa de Sue Winery

As a lover of wine I was very pleased to find a winery in Louisiana, especially one that was open on a Sunday. I ended up finding a tasting room here within a cute Cajun shopping center. The winery is offsite but wines locally produced. The tasting room itself is in a cozy white house with little room for my family of three. The room itself is stocked with lots of Louisiana memorabilia –masks, party beads and, of course, stacks of their wines.
The lady who poured for us was very kind. She could tell from our accent that we were not from the South. She asked where we were from and frowned deeply once she found out we were from Sonoma County. I wasn’t sure why. Though I expected to taste Bordeaux Rhone or Burgundy Alsace varietals. I was suddenly reminded those varietals do not grow well in humid subtropical climates. What grapes grow well in that type of terroir? Muscadine grapes! To me there’s a musky perfume to muscadine wine that I’m just not used to. On the palate it tasted like prune juice mixed with Welches grape juice — some times syrupy or dry with a burn down the throat. For research purposes I tried all of the muscadine that was available: rosè to red, sweet and dry, all out of a disposable plastics wine glass. (That was a first for me…). There was also a dry blueberry wine that tasted fairly decent. I left with a bottle of blueberry wine and a muscadine wine. The muscadine made me gag but I at least wanted to bring back and share it with my wine group. (Hmm… Maybe that is why the kind lady who poured for me frowned. California wine nerd?).
It was a fun experience to taste wine produce from a native grape of the South. If you prefer a white Zin and other sweet wines you may want to check out this charming place.
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