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If there is a red grape more expressive in its youth than Valdiguié, we've yet to meet it. It's so many vibrant,...
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Twice a year, the sun crosses the celestial equator, resulting in a day and night of equal length. These occurrences...
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Caymus-Suisun Walking Fool 2021 is a Zinfandel/ Petite Sirah blend that spent 18 months in French and American Oak.
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Caymus-Suisun Walking Fool 2022 is a Zinfandel/ Petite Sirah blend that spent 18 months in French and American Oak.
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Crushed red fruit and clay on the nose. Full-to medium-bodied with well-structured tannins. Juicy, ripe red and black...
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Aromas of redcurrants, blackberries, sliced plums and smoking tobacco. Full-bodied with fine, soft tannins. Black and...
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Aroma : Just-Pickup blackberry, italian plum, lavender.
Flavor : Mulberry, violette liqueur, chai spice.
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This smooth dry red wine blend combines three varietals to create a richly colored wine wtih a distinct...
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This wine is inspired by the Italian farming tradition where grapes were planted on the poorer soils of the uplifted...
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This concentrated kitchen chameleon carries our banner for California crowd-pleasers. Year after year, excellent...
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We have been producing our Pinotage from this vineyard for 18 years. It recently changed ownership and has been...
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The 2021 GSM is fabulous. Bright and effusive, with tons of energy, the GSM captures all the natural vibrancy of the...
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A gutsy little blend, with snappy cherry, tobacco and licorice flavors that finish with zesty tannins. Zinfandel,...
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This bold and bright old-vine field blend combines ripe black fruit with tart red-fruit flavors for a vibrant...
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This full-bodied wine is rich with ripe fruits: blackberry, boysenberry, raspberry, cranberry and black currant,...
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This Estate red blend has aromas of bright red fruit. A lush entry of red and black berries with a hint of spice &...
Gamay Pinotage Red Blend United States California Mendocino County Suisun Valley 750ml
The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.
The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.
Pinotage is the signature grape varietal of South Africa, and is the most widely grown grape in the country, as well as being common in several other countries around the world. It is a viticultural cross of two fine grape varietals, the Pinot Noir and the Cinsaut (known as Hermitage in South Africa, hence the portmanteau name), and is notable for the fact that it produces excellent and flavorful wines of a deep red color The flavors most commonly associated with Pinotage wines are generally smoky in nature, with notes ranging from dark bramble fruits, to plum, mulberry and earthy characteristics. However, it often also includes quite tropical flavors of stewed banana. The Pinotage varietal is a versatile one, and is often used for producing fortified and sparkling wines, as well as the more common still red wines.
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.