Terre Rouge Tete-a-Tete Red Blend Sierra Foothills 2015 750 ML

Tête-à-Tête is our fun easy drinking assemblage of Mediterranean varietals (in 2015 – it’s 39% Grenache, 39% Mourvedre & 22% Syrah,). We blend it with current drinkability in mind, for drinking both at home and as a restaurant pour. We generally put it together from our younger vines and our more forward tasting barrel lots. 2015 was a year where most of our Rhone varietal lots had brightness and ripe fruit. For us, it was more of an average growing season, but this was the third year of a three year drought. Te fruit developed nicely all summer, with no surprises, and we received good flavor development. Tis wine drinks like wines from solid Cotes-duRhone-Villages vintage: sappy, spicy, mouth-filling, and nuanced. It is an eminently enjoyable everyday bottle. Tis 2015 has our typically deep boysenberry fruit aromatics, with smoky/meaty/ gamey complex flavor components that emphasize our terroir, and a lengthy creamy texture. Aged for 16 months in a mixture of French barrels. Tis is a great California wine value !