Category: Red Blend

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Rescue Dog Mixed Red

Rescue Dog Beloved Mixed Red Wine Blend
Rescue Dog Beloved Mixed Red Wine Blend NV. Click here for tasting notes. I have posts on all of these wines. Just search for Rescue Dog.

Rescue Dog Beloved Mixed Red Wine Blend

Founded in 2017 by Blair and Laura Lott, Rescue Dog Wines has an unusual and commendable mission: a generous 50% of their profits go to rescue dog organizations across the country. The Lotts explained that they started planning a new life in wine country around 2015. “We knew that we wanted to embrace sustainable growing practices and create a new, more rewarding lifestyle for ourselves. In addition, we knew that we wanted enough land to grow wine grapes and foster dogs. In addition, we knew that we wanted to create high quality, premium wines. During this period of exploration throughout many of California’s wine regions it dawned on us that we could combine our two passions and Rescue Dog Wines was born,” they reminisced. Continue reading “Rescue Dog Mixed Red”

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Riley’s Rows Red Blend

Riley's Rows 3x3 Red Blend. <a href="#taste">Click here for tasting notes.</a>
Riley’s Rows 3×3 Red Blend. Click here for tasting notes.

Riley’s Rows 3×3 Red Blend 2017

There’s an old witticism in the wine business that goes, “If you want to make a million dollars by producing wine, the first thing you need to do is spend a million dollars.” For a young and ambitious vintner to be able to skip that first step would be quite a blessing. Such is the case with Riley Flanagan. She is the eldest daughter of Eric Flanagan, a boutique winemaker and grape supplier in Sonoma, California. Through his Flanagan Wines operation, her father shares the tasting room, winemaking facility, and some of the fruit for his daughter’s own wine label. Continue reading “Riley’s Rows Red Blend”

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Parallel 44 Red Blend

Parallel 44 F2 Red Blend 2018
Parallel 44 Red Blend. Click here for tasting notes. I have posts on all of these wines. Just search for Parallel 44.

Parallel 44 Red Blend 2018

The story of Parallel 44 Vineyard & Winery began in 2005, when husband and wife team Steve Johnson and Maria Milano planted their first grape vines. Steve grew up in Green Bay, where his father Carl experimented early on with growing grapes. Maria grew up in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where her Italian-born father continued his tradition of making wine for friends and family celebrations. Steve and Maria met while in school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and then attended law school together. While working as attorneys, they attended seminars on grape growing in Wisconsin, with an eye towards getting into the wine business.

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Parallel 44 Salve

Parallel 44 Winery
Parallel 44 Salve NV Click here for tasting notes. I have posts on all of these wines. Just search for Parallel 44.

Parallel 44 Salve

The story of Parallel 44 Vineyard & Winery began in 2005, when husband and wife team Steve Johnson and Maria Milano planted their first grape vines. Steve grew up in Green Bay, where his father Carl experimented early on with growing grapes. Maria grew up in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where her Italian-born father continued his tradition of making wine for friends and family celebrations. Steve and Maria met while in school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and then attended law school together. While working as attorneys, they attended seminars on grape growing in Wisconsin, with an eye towards getting into the wine business.

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Parallel 44 Vintner’s Reserve

Parallel 44 Vintner's Reserve NV
Parallel 44 Vintner’s Reserve NV Click here for tasting notes. I have posts on all of these wines. Just search for Parallel 44.

Parallel 44 Vintner’s Reserve

The story of Parallel 44 Vineyard & Winery began in 2005, when husband and wife team Steve Johnson and Maria Milano planted their first grape vines. Steve grew up in Green Bay, where his father Carl experimented early on with growing grapes. Maria grew up in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where her Italian-born father continued his tradition of making wine for friends and family celebrations. Steve and Maria met while in school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and then attended law school together. While working as attorneys, they attended seminars on grape growing in Wisconsin, with an eye towards getting into the wine business.

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Flanagan The Beauty of Three

Flanagan The Beauty of Three Proprietary Red 2015. <a href="#taste">Click here for tasting notes.</a>
Flanagan The Beauty of Three Proprietary Red. Click here for tasting notes.

Flanagan The Beauty of Three Proprietary Red Blend

Eric Flanagan did not come of age with a background in the wine business, or even farming. After graduating from college in 1985, he embarked on a banking career, which he pursued until 2013. His job during those years took him on journeys around the world. He had always had an interest in wine, and over the course of these trips Flanagan became fascinated by how grapes of the same variety expressed themselves in different places.

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Tooth & Nail The Fiend

Tooth &amp; Nail The Fiend 2017.
Tooth & Nail The Fiend 2017. Click here for tasting notes.

Tooth & Nail The Fiend

Tooth & Nail is one of four brands from Rabble Wine Company, the others being Rabble, Stasis, and Amor Fati. Rabble was founded by Rob Murray, a longtime wine grower with a vineyard-first mindset. The company has relied on four vineyards for more than 10 years, carefully overseeing all aspects of farming.

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Tooth & Nail The Stand

Tooth &amp; Nail The Stand 2017
Tooth & Nail The Stand 2017. Click here for tasting notes.

Tooth & Nail The Stand

Tooth & Nail is one of four brands from Rabble Wine Company, the others being Rabble, Stasis, and Amor Fati. Rabble was founded by Rob Murray, a longtime wine grower with a vineyard-first mindset. The company has relied on four vineyards for more than 10 years, carefully overseeing all aspects of farming.

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Tooth & Nail The Possessor

Tooth &amp; Nail The Possessor 2016.
Tooth & Nail The Possessor 2016. Click here for tasting notes.

Tooth & Nail The Possessor

Tooth & Nail is one of four brands from Rabble Wine Company, the others being Rabble, Stasis, and Amor Fati. Rabble was founded by Rob Murray, a longtime wine grower with a vineyard-first mindset. The company has relied on four vineyards for more than 10 years, carefully overseeing all aspects of farming.

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Kenwood Red Blend

Kenwood Vineyards Jack London Red Blend 2016
Kenwood Vineyards Jack London Red Blend. Click here for tasting notes.

Kenwood Jack London Red Blend 2016

Author Jack London (1876 – 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of unabashedly commercial fiction in both novels and  magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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Austin Hope Rhone Blend

Austin Hope Rhone Blend.
Austin Hope Rhone Blend. Click here for tasting notes.

Austin Hope Rhone Blend 2021

Chuck Hope and his wife Marlyn came to Paso Robles in California’s Central Coast in 1978 to farm, and eventually to start what would become Hope Family Wines. This early arrival put them on the forefront of the Central Coast becoming a world-class viticultural region. Initially, the Hopes planted apples and grapes in this then sparsely-populated area. Seeing the property’s potential for grape growing, Hope eventually replanted the apple orchards with grapes.

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Ulysses

Ulysses 2020. <a href="#taste">Click here for tasting notes.</a>
Ulysses 2020. Click here for tasting notes.

Ulysses 2020

Charles Hopper first planted what is now known as the Missouri Hopper Vineyard (named for his daughter rather than the state) in 1873 in what is now Oakville, California. The parcel for this vineyard was purchased from George Yount. Now owned by the Beckstoffer family, a part of the original Missouri Hopper vineyard is used to produce Ulysses, a wine from Christian Moueix, a French wine maker famous for Petrus in France and Dominus in the U.S., as well as several other top wines from the region today.

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Butaud Cease & Desist

C.L. Butaud Cease &amp; Desist Red Wine Blend 2021. 
C.L. Butaud Cease & Desist Red Wine Blend 2021.   Click here for tasting notes.

Butaud Cease & Desist Red Wine Blend 2021

Texas isn’t the first place that comes to mind when most people think about wine, especially “serious” high-quality wine. And yet, Texas is fifth in the nation in both wine production and consumption. The history of grape growing in the state goes back at least to the 1660s, when Franciscan monks planted Mission grapes adjacent to their missions.* Today, Texas is home to a number of American Viticultural Areas, or AVAs; the two most prominent are the Texas High Plains AVA around Lubbock in northwestern Texas, and the Texas Hill Country AVA in central Texas west of Austin.

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Anchored Roots “The Summit”

Anchored Roots "The Summit" Red Blend 2018.
Anchored Roots “The Summit” Red Blend. Click here for tasting notes.
Anchored Roots “The Summit” 2018

Eric and Amy Gale are the owners and sole full-time employees of Anchored Roots, Door County, Wisconsin’s newest winery, founded in 2020.

The couple make an ideal front-of-house/back-of-house duo. Amy grew up in Milwaukee, with hospitality at the forefront of her career path. Her initial focus was event planning, from non-profit fundraisers and catering, to corporate events and weddings. This was followed by experience in tasting room management at Airfield Estates in Prosser, Washington.

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