This wine is not glorified fruit punch. This bottle is not ornately gilded in a flowery explosion. This juice is not forced into bottle before it’s ready just so it can hit the market in time for the holidays. This wine is not Beaujolais Nouveau. It is something altogether different and better than what many [...read more]

Gamay with the holiday meal – it’s become a bit of a cliché at this point. Everybody writes about it, because it’s fashionable to point out one’s connections to the inside of the wine industry. Well, the cliché exists for a reason – good wines made from Gamay love holiday foods – especially roasted bird [...read more]

You all remember that movie that put Pinot Noir on the public radar, right? Giamatti destroys Merlot sales for a few years, and the world scrambles to snap up Central Coast Pinot, there’s an affair, a car crash, an thinly veiled existential undertone… Well, it’s Pinot Noir like the Encantada that made Central Coast wines [...read more]