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Bonny Doon 'Vin Gris de Cigare' Rosé 2020
Special Price $40.00 Regular Price $50.00
This exceptional wine from Santa Cruz in California will appeal to drinkers of Provence Rosé thanks to the varietals Grenache and Cinsault featuring prominently and the extended lees used in its production. The result is a brightly fruited wine with a creamy texture and excellent length … which is also why this wine will appeal to drinkers of quality buttery Chardonnay and aged Semillon. Wild strawberries, guava, peach, rhubarb and white pepper in evidence here. An absolute cracker.
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Wine Specs
Variety
Grenache, Cinsault, Clariette Blanche, Grenache Blanc, Mourvedre, Vermentino
Vintage
2020
Winery
Winemaker
Randall Grahm
Body
Medium
Sweetness
Dry
Drinking Window
Now - 2026
Bling
95pts Sam Kim, 95pts Kim Brebach
Alcohol %
13.5
Closure
Screwcap
Size
750 mL
Biodynamic
Yes
Bonny Doon was founded by Randall Grahm in the 1980s, initially with the desire to make Burgundian style wines in California. T’wasn’t long before he realized Rhone/Provence varietals worked better and he began cranking out Le Cigar Volant, his very successful homage to the great wines of the Rhone. Randall pioneered micro oxidation, screwcaps and truth in labelling in California too. His wines are organic, biodynamic and vegan friendly – eschewing winemaking artefact in favour of allowing fruit quality to shine. The name of his most famous wine, “Le Cigar Volant’ (the Flying Cigar) comes from a 1954 by-law from the Châteauneuf-du-Pape, banning the landing of flying saucers in local vineyards. Given his approach to tread lightly on the earth whilst producing exceptional wines from Rhone varietals, this seemed a fine name for his inaugural, and most famous wine. The backstory? In 1954, when the world was in a bit of a tizz about aliens and flying saucers, the Châteauneuf-du-Pape village council was bricking it at the possibility of UFOs landing in and damaging vineyards. So, clever clogs, one and all, they passed a legal ordinance prohibiting such landings. So far, this legislation has had the intended effect. No reports of an@! probes either. Huzzah!
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