Category: 2017
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2017 Sangiovese
Blend 95% Sangiovese, 1% Touriga, 1% Tempranillo, 1% Tinta Cao, 1% Souzao, 1% Tinta Amarela 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…
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2017 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…
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2017 Wreckless Wred
Blend Barbera 41%, Sangiovese 20%, Touriga Nacional 14%, Merlot 7%, Syrah 7%, Tempranillo 4%, Tinta Cao 3%, Souzao 2%, Tinta Amarela 2% Rocket Muses about the Wreckless Wred Information When he is not drinking his favorite beer, the Sexiest Man Alive drinks Wreckless Wred… of course he does…we’d like to think so, anyway. Catching arrows…
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2017 Merlot
Blend 90% Merlot, 10% Touriga Nacional 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…
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2017 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…