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“Well I never been to Spain…
… but I kinda like the music…Never gonna lose it, I can’t refuse it…”; Hoyt Axton
Ah, Tempranillo—Spain’s noble grape and the basis for its great Rioja’s. It’s great on its own and it’s definitely on our Top Ten list for great food wines with fantastic fruit, mouth-watering acids, and enough tannin to be complex and interesting without overwhelming a good meal.
Steve, Duke, and Mike Heringer grow our Tempranillo grapes in Clarksburg, a small town sandwiched between the Sacramento River and Ship Canal. While close to Sacramento geographically, Clarksburg’s climate could
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“I get no respect.”
Rodney Dangerfield
When documenting the great wines of Italy’s Piemonte—the Barolo’s, and Barbaresco’s in particular—Barbera never seems to make the list. We think it’s time that this Cinderella of a grape gets its due, particularly when comes to selecting a wine that makes good food better.
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“I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black.” Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Everything about Teroldego is deep and dark. The stains on the bins the fruit it picked into and fermented in. The stains on our hands as we work with the fermenting must. The barrels after the wine is aged. The wine in glass is the deepest purple around.
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“Pink Flamingos.”
Whether it’s thinking about the movie or just the birds the wine’s color resembles, the ’09 Rosato di Barbera is like them both: distinctive. So many people have (ahem) strong feelings about rosé, so we had fun making a wine that surprises them. No, it’s not a blush.
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 “Unique. Handcrafted. Artisan. Red.”
Do you ever feel like someone is using a checklist when they write tasting notes? If you check off all the boxes, then you’ll have a winner—sort of like Bingo.
i r o n w o r k s is the first of our neighborhood blends, named for our Oakland neighborhood. Around the turn of the century, ours was the part of town where metalworkers crafted goods
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