Bonny Doon Vin Gris de Cigare 2003

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    Vintage
    2003

    Size
    750ML

    Features
    Screw Cap

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    Winemaker Notes

    It occurs to me that there is more than the obvious oxymoron in the locution "serious pink wine." I am put in mind of the modern state of American politics. The pink wine dilemma might be considered the inverse of that of politicians running for higher office. On the one hand, we demand a certain gravitas, seriousness of purpose from our elected officials, but who among us could stomach the shenanigans inherent in the process of getting elected? With pink wine, an immensely focussed, vigilant, verging on the somber or taciturn presence is required to attend to the most minute details of the winemaking process. And yet the final product is something that is so light, ethereal, playful and engaging, one's breath is simply taken away. The unbearable lightness of pink. This batch is remarkably fragrant — there is the typical pink grapefruit, strawberry and guava that one normally discerns in our pink wine but this version features a remarkably graceful top-note of candied violets and raspberries. One fancies oneself a boulevardier, making the rounds of the 6eme, leaving the subtle scent of pastille de violettes in one's suave and elegant.

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    Bonny Doon, California
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    While Bonny Doon Vineyard began with the (in retrospect) foolish attempt to replicate Burgundy in California, Randall Grahm realized early on that he would have far more success creating more distinctive and original wines working with Rhône varieties in the Central Coast of California. The key learning here (achieved somewhat accidentally but fortuitously) was that in a warm, Mediterranean climate, it is usually blended wines that are most successful. In 1986 Bonny Doon Vineyard released the inaugural vintage (1984) of Le Cigare Volant, an homage to Châteauneuf-du-Pape, and this continues as the winery’s flagship/starship brand.

    Since then, Bonny Doon Vineyard has enjoyed a long history of innovation – the first to truly popularize Rhône grapes in California, to successfully work with cryo-extraction for sundry “Vins de Glacière, the first to utilize microbullage in California, the first to popularize screwcaps for premium wines, and, quite significantly, the first to embrace true transparency in labeling with its ingredient labeling initiative. The upside of all of this activity has brought an extraordinary amount of creativity and research to the California wine scene; the doon-side, as it were, was perhaps an ever so slight inability to focus, to settle doon, if you will, into a single, coherent direction.1

    Bonny Doon Vineyard grew and grew with some incredibly popular brands (Big House, Cardinal Zin and Pacific Rim) until it became the 28th largest winery in the United States. Randall came to the realization – better late than Nevers – that he had found that the company had diverged to a great extent from his original intention of producing soulful, distinctive and original wines, and that while it was amusing to be able to get restaurant reservations almost anywhere (the only real tangible perk he was able to discern from the vast scale of the operation), it was time to take a decisive course correction. With this in mind, he sold off the larger brands (Big House and Cardinal Zin) in 2006 and Pacific Rim in 2010.

    In the intervening years, the focus of the winery has been to spend far more time working with vineyards in improving their practices, as well as on making wines with a much lighter touch – using indigenous yeast whenever possible, and more or less eschewing vinous maquillage, (at least not to Tammy Faye Bakker-like levels). Recently, Randall has purchased an extraordinary property in San Juan Bautista, which he calls Popelouchum, (the Mutsun word for “paradise,”) where he is profoundly intent on producing singular wines expressive of place. There are also very grand plans afoot to plant a dry-farmed Estate Cigare vineyard.

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