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| This afternoon’s tasting 4-7 pm no reservations needed $15 |
| At this afternoon’s tasting, you may feast your lips on a cornucopia of light-bodied red wine. Nothing over 11% ABV, everything either zero added sulfites or nearly so, nothing wood-paneled with toasty oak, just fresh, honest wines that are what they are and not necessarily what you want them to be. Are they glou glou wines that you can guzzle without thought or care? If you want them to be. Yet if you pause for a moment and allow yourself to tune into their arcane frequencies, you will experience visions of otherworldly delights; like a ketamine dream without the ketamine hangover, they put the dope back into dopamine. We are starting with Craig Haarmeyer’s light-as-a-feather zinfandel. Yep, zinfandel, but not a brooding, alcoholic zinberry monster that makes you want to flee when hearing the grape’s name, wines that have are more akin to a nice prune danish than a wine, wines of the type that your mom once overdrank and then barfed over the zinnias back in the winter of ’65, when the rest of us were hungry and just barely alive, but rather zinfandel in the key of nimble, infused, and weightless. Next, another short-macerated wine from Iole Rabasco, juicy and low-tannin, with no added sulfites. And then wine from the Czech Republic, mostly rotberger and dornfelder, wild yeast fermented in stainless, again zero added sulfites. To finish, old vines pineau d’aunis from the master Jean Pierre Robinot. 18 months elevage in old barrels, again, no added sulfites. We are huge Robinot proponents and dream of having access to more of his wine, but we take what we can get and indeed only get a tiny bit of this wine, when it is available, so come and get it or forever hold your peace. |
| Haarmeyer “Calaveras” Rorick Heritage Vineyard Zinfandel 2018 Nestarec “Youngster” Red Czech Republic 2019 (rotberger, cab, dornfelder) Rabasco “Lu Fregnett” Abruzzo 2018 (short-macerated montepulciano) L’Ange Vin “Regard” Vin de France 2016 (old vine pineau d’aunis) |