I will be offering a six-pack consisting of 3 bottles each of my 2014 Cabernet Sauvignons from Six Acre Vineyard in Oakville - Ginger’s Cuvee and Rusty’s Cuvee. The wines are named after our first two family dogs (now deceased) and are a very interesting, I think, pair. They are two blends that are nearly identical. Both have 95% cabernet sauvignon and .5% petit verdot in them. Ginger’s Cuvee has 2.5% malbec and 2% cabernet franc; Rusty’s Cuvee has 2% malbec and 2.5% cabernet franc. Yes, the variations got that fine. I had a really hard time deciding between the two blends, so I bottled both.
I’ve sort of tortured my mailing list customers for years with detailed reports on blending sessions and their results. I did this partly because I always found the sessions so interesting, partly because I wanted to give my customers a picture of the wine-making process that was different than what they usually receive and mostly because I thought they would find it interesting, too. A question I would typically get is “how much of a difference can a slight change in the blend make?”
The answer is in these two blends. So far, everyone who has tasted the two wines has been able to discern the difference between them - which may seem remarkable given the very slight variation between the malbec and cab franc components. Preferences between the two have been equally split. Both results in tastings make me happy and confirm that it was a worthy experiment. I believe it will be a lot of fun both now and over time to see and follow the differences between the two.
In terms of the vintage, I think the 2014s are most similar to my 2010s and would rank them just a quarter-step below the 2010s at the top of a “best vintages of Congruence” listing.
Price of the six-pack is $210, plus tax and shipping. $10 off per bottle. 40 six packs available; limit of 4 per customer. I won’t be available until noonish EST for questions as I’ll be
States to which I can ship directly: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, DC, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. If you don’t see your state in those listed, contact me. I have a list of states for which an alternative is workable.
Finally, and importantly, here is the link for the six-pack:
https://congruence.securewinemerchant.com/bundle/berserkers-6-pack
Thanks for all the support over the years. I won’t be available for questions until noonish EST as I’ll be out of town with my son on the 26th and returning on the 27th.