WINEMAKER'S NOTES:
This is just a fun, juicy, frolicking, lively little “Chipie” of a red wine. It’s Cabernet Franc, so it’s got all those tart and tangy pomegranate, red plum and under-ripe blueberry notes that bring the wine just singing out of the glass. On the palate, it’s got California sun on its shoulders, and all the more juicy fun times for it – that warm sunshine rounds it out, over a supple-drinking midpalate with easygoing tannins. But at 13.1% alcohol, the warming sun doesn’t cover up any of the dancing, prancing zestiness of this red wine. Chipie (I am told) is French slang for a young girl who is misbehaving; and if you’ve got the snow-bound, cold-weather blues, then maybe it’s time for you to pop a bottle and start misbehaving – just a little.
