Category: 2016
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2016 Quinta
Blend Touriga 56%, Tempranillo 15%, Tinta Cao 13%, Souzao 6%, Tinta Amarela 5% and Merlot 5%. Information The versatile Portuguese word quinta might mean estate to some, Thursday to others… to us, it means five Iberian beauties in a bottle; laughter and play and raging battles, all resolved in poetry. From Andy and Elizabeth Standeven’s…
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2016 Sangiovese
Blend 100% Gibson Ranch Sangiovese Information One mention of Chianti and the sugarplum fairies put up pictures of Vespa scooters and the Leaning Tower of Pizza, and maybe The David and some plates of stunningly delicious food eaten overlooking the sea… Maybe thoughts of naughty debauchery in Pompeii before the lid came crashing down…we think…
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2016 Merlot
Blend 97% Merlot 3% Sagrantino Information There’s two types of merlot out there…merlot, and Wreckless merlot. What makes it Wreckless? It’s gotta have backbone to hang all that flesh on. A big backbone. And it must have character, in the same way that our favorite pirate of yore has character. Charm, courage, swashbuckling sexuality, outrageous…
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2016 Touriga
Blend 100% Shaker Ridge Touriga Information A quote from the original Planet of the Grapes, 1968 GEORGE TAYLOR: “I’m a seeker too. But my dreams aren’t like yours. I can’t help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than Cabernet Sauvignon. Has to be…” From the sunny west coast of…
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2016 Barbera
Blend 100% Shaker Ridge Barbera Information Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, dreamed one tempestuous night of a mighty river flowing red, fragrant wine. By the light of the new moon, he tossed in his toga as lightning flashed across the sky. Like the bright freshness of a perfect red wine rolling across his godlike…