the pour matrix
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the pour matrix 〰️
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What is it? A white blend.
What is it made from? Pinot Grigio - Sauvignon Blanc - Vermentino - Verdelho
Where is it from? California
What does it taste like? This unusual white blend is made from organically farmed grapes, fermented in neutral vessels to create a bright wine with a refreshing amount of acidity and a food friendly texture.
Fun Facts: Fermented by natural yeasts, with no sulfur or additives. As a restaurant buyer and wine lover Patrick Cappiello was always frustrated by the lack of affordable, honest wines from California. Monte Rio ((offshoot, ‘Skull Wines’)) his project with Cali wine giant Pax Mahle, is looking to address that.
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What is it? Rose
What’s it made from? Syrah - Carignan - Petite Sirah - Cabernet Sauvignon - Grenache
Where’s it from? Green Valley & Redwood Valley AVAs
What’s it taste like? Wild strawberry and grape Jolly Rancher.
Fun Facts: All the different grape varieties were pressed and fermented separately, then blended together into a single stainless steel tank before canning. No fining, filtration, or addition of SO2.
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What is it? Red Wine
What’s it made from? Syrah
Where’s it from? The North Coast of California
What’s it taste like? Dark, dense while still wildly fresh with lithe tannin complimented with brooding structure. Blackberries, violet, camphor, white pepper and cedar.
Fun Facts: The rugged, high-elevation, rocky wind swept slopes of these dramatic sites makes for unparalleled Syrah. Picked early to preserve acidity and capture the cool climate characteristics, the grapes are all crushed by foot and fermented whole cluster, followed by a 10 month elevage in neutral French oak barrique.
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What is it? Red blend
What’s it made from? Cabernet Franc - Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot - Malbec
Where’s it from? Bordeaux, France
What’s it taste like? Dark and plummy, but not densely concentrated. A very fresh and floral nose, showing forest cherry, blueberries, wild strawberry, under scents of lavender and violets. On the palate, there is a crisp blackberry and raspberry character, with richer plums - joined by herbs, salt and graphite. A fresh, bitter note of dark citrus pops above an ever-lasting flavor of earl grey tea on the nervy finish.
Fun Facts: Biodynamic certified; female winemaker!
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What is it? Rum
What’s it made from? Sugar Cane Juice
Where’s it from? Australia
This rum was distilled in 2014 in Queensland, Australia from fermented molasses. Only a pot still was used. After aging in ex-bourbon barrels for five full years in Australia, it was sent to Europe for additional aging in an ex-cognac foudre in France.