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The winery joined Jackson Family Wines in 2016. A portion of whole clusters goes into the ferment and older French oak lets the fruit lead, while a few years in bottle have brought out savoury, earthy notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEasy and fresh. Serve it a touch cool (14–16°C) alongside salmon, roast chicken or mushroom dishes. Best over the next year or two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Lisa Chu owns and farms it organically, a change Kashy Khaledi pushed for by persuading her to raise prices for all her customers, himself included, so the work could be paid for; soil health and fruit quality improved quickly. Bordeaux varieties went in during 2000, rooting into thin soils of uplifted marine sediment and fractured shale. Merlot leads the blend at fifty-nine per cent. A cold soak preceded native fermentation, then nineteen months in French oak, thirty per cent new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore outgoing than its single-vineyard stablemates, with dark berry fruit, mountain herb and a firm, fine-grained structure, the mountain's natural power given a silken edge by Diana Snowden-Seysses's choice of blend. Decant and serve at 17 degrees. Good with venison, braised beef, or a mushroom ragù.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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A typical Cayuse block holds 2,800 vines per hectare; the Horsepower sites hold 12,100. Three Belgians and two Percherons, with their teamsters, do the cultivating. This block lies on the same basalt cobbles as the rest, thin silty loam over deep stone, and the vines are individually staked, which shades the fruit as the sun crosses and keeps alcohol moderate, usually between 13 and 13.5 per cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViolet, bacon fat, black olive and blue fruit, with a fine tight tannin line and real length. This is Syrah on the savoury side of the ledger. Serve at 17 degrees after an hour open. Roast lamb, or duck with olives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The slopes are steep and thick with chalk from an uplifted ancient seabed over decomposing granite, planted to a mix of Chalone 46, Pommard 4 and Dijon 114 and farmed organically. John Locke and Alex Krause pick at night, destem, and ferment naturally in small open-top steel, layering roughly forty per cent of the ripest stems back through the cap. Twelve months follow in older casks, from barrique up to 600-litre demi-muid, then bottling without filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRose petal and raspberry with a savoury, peppery edge, the tannins soft and the acid keeping everything lively. A decade on, it is sitting exactly where it should. Pour at 15 degrees with duck breast, grilled salmon, or a mushroom risotto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Dick Woodward planted it to Cabernet in 1969, when it was known locally as the A-Frame vineyard; the steep rows were grafted to several Pinot Noir selections decades ago, and Richard Boer owns and farms them now. Enough sea air reaches this far inland to take the edge off the afternoons, so the fruit ripens evenly. Krause and Locke handle it the way they handle all their Pinot Noir: night picking, wild ferment, older wood, no filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarker and more mineral than most Californian Pinot Noir, with cranberry, iron and dried herb over a firm chalky grip. Magnums age slowly, so there is no rush at all. Serve at 16 degrees with roast pork, or duck with cherries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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It remains the furthest site they work, four hours south of the Santa Cruz winery, sitting at 335 metres on quartz, with beach sand across the crest and limestone chunks scattered through the rows. Everything is picked in one pass, riper and less-ripe berries together, which is where the tension comes from. Wild ferment in stainless steel, then ageing split between steel barrels and neutral French wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2022 came out on the mineral, savoury side: oyster shell, lemon pith and a saline lick, with just enough orchard fruit for weight. Serve cold, around 10 degrees. Oysters, grilled whiting, or a whole fish with fennel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Chenin Blanc \/ Santa Ynez \/ Birichino","offer_id":44288045776955,"sku":"24260-750","price":84.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/24260-750.png?v=1790123237"},{"product_id":"birichino-lilo-pinot-noir-1-5l-magnum-2018","title":"Birichino Lilo Pinot Noir 1.5L MAGNUM 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eBirichino Lilo Pinot Noir is a Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir from a steep, marginal, high-elevation block, released in magnum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vineyard faces south at 300 metres in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with a clear view down over Monterey Bay and nothing at all to shelter it. Soils are a jumble of schist, shale and sandstone, the slope is severe, and the crop can be tiny. Sitting just above the fog line means every hazard the Pacific throws arrives here first: late frosts at budburst, rain through flowering, wind. The vines went in around a dozen years before this vintage, and working a site like this is a deliberate choice, never a convenience, which tells you something about how Locke and Krause think.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLight in colour and intense in flavour, with cranberry, blood orange and wild herb over a firm acid spine and a cool, stony finish. Serve at 15 degrees. Good with duck, roast quail, or a plate of charcuterie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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In 2022 it delivered so well that Locke and Krause rebalanced everything around it, and Cinsault from a head-pruned, dry-farmed, organically managed Lodi vineyard planted in 1886 took the largest share at 48 per cent, with Mourvèdre at 29 and Grenache at 23. The Grenache comes from 1910 plantings in the Besson vineyard in Santa Clara Valley. Each batch fermented wild and separately with 10 to 20 per cent stems, then eight months in old wood before blending and bottling unfined and unfiltered. The label borrows from an Edo-period Bakemono Zukushi handscroll.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarker and more brooding than its stablemate Scylla: black cherry, dried fig, garrigue herbs and a peppery, earthy finish over gently chewy tannin. Serve at 16 degrees. Lamb kofta, grilled eggplant, or a slow-cooked shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The Pinot Noir rows were grafted over from Bordeaux varieties in the 1980s using cuttings Josh Jensen of Calera gave Besson's late father. Old roots in decomposed granite and clay, organic farming, and fog and wind funnelling through the Hecker Pass Gap from Monterey Bay thirty kilometres away give a wine Alex Krause calls distinctly floral and never dark. Seven barrels from two high-elevation Chalone sites were blended in for stony grip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePale, perfumed and drinkable: rose, raspberry and sappy undergrowth, with a firm mineral edge at the end from the Chalone fruit. No new oak anywhere. Serve at 15 to 16 degrees with roast chicken, salmon, or duck with beetroot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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He calls Zinfandel a miserable grape, only half joking, and now makes three of them. The vines were reportedly planted by an Italian bootlegger in 1922, ungrafted, in granite and sandy loam. Sun all day and unusually cool nights off the Pacific let flavour build without alcohol running away, and yields sit around a tonne to the acre. The cool, even 2021 season reached balance at 13.5 per cent in late October.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBramble, black tea, plum and a bitter Fernet-like twist, with saline freshness and savoury grip that has nothing to do with the big-shouldered end of Zinfandel. Serve at 16 degrees. Pork ribs, grilled sausages, or a mushroom pizza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The two halves were handled differently: the Carignan went through partial carbonic maceration, while the Grenache was destemmed with about thirty per cent of the stems layered back into what Krause calls his lasagne-style wild ferments. Eight months in old barrique and demi-muid followed, with no new wood anywhere near it. Lodi's old, dry-farmed, head-trained Carignan is one of California's quietly great resources, and very little of it gets treated this carefully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRed cherry and cranberry up front, brambly spice behind, a little earth at the edges, with mouth-watering acidity and tannin you barely notice. Chill it slightly, to 15 degrees, and drink with roast chicken, grilled lamb, or a tomato-heavy pasta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Both crop low, around four tonnes to the acre at Montague and two at Mule Plane, on fine sandy loam. The Mourvèdre balance was grafted over from 1920s Marsanne in the Besson vineyard using Beaucastel cuttings, and Krause says it fills in the texture the Carignan lacks. Montague fruit was destemmed, Mule Plane went in with whole bunches layered through, and everything spent about eight months in neutral wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brighter and more immediately drinkable of the two Rhône blends here: red plum, crushed raspberry, dry herb and a savoury close. Serve at 15 to 16 degrees, or lightly chilled in summer. Grilled sausages, roast capsicum, or a good burger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The site falls just outside the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA on a technicality of elevation and which side of the road it happens to sit. The remaining fifteen per cent came from the Enz, Antle and Boer vineyards, the latter two high in Chalone on limestone and granite. Around thirty per cent stems went back into the ferment, then old barriques and demi-muids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSucculent red fruit, a sappy lift and a touch of forest floor, over a juicy supple palate that asks nothing of you. Serve at 15 degrees. Roast chicken, grilled tuna, or a pork and sage sausage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Locke and Krause usually pick between 13 and 13.5 per cent to keep the grape's finer side, but in 2020 full ripeness did not arrive until 14.5, so this is a bigger wine than they normally make. Ten per cent stems went into the ferment. Even so, it sits a long way from Zinfandel's muscular mainstream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlump red berry, spice and a bitter-herb Fernet edge, with saline depth and a grip that reminds you the Pacific is twenty kilometres west. It improves in the glass, so open it early. Serve at 16 degrees with barbecued pork or grilled lamb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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It lies on alluvial sandy loam at the cooler southern end of the valley, near the French Laundry, and yields very little. When Locke and Krause found enough drinkers willing to follow them into old-vine oddities, this was one of the first sites they chased. Picking happens on the cusp of ripeness, usually between 11 and 12 per cent, to hold the variety's pithy edge. Wild ferment in a mix of steel and old barrel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStone fruit and green fig with a creamy middle, then lemon cut and a phenolic nip at the end. Serve cold, at 10 degrees, in a glass with some room in it. Oysters, crab, chicken with tarragon, or a wedge of soft washed-rind cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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It was laid down in July 2013 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard distillery and spent its whole life in the upstairs ageing room, a glasshouse-like space where summers push the spirit hard into the wood. The angels took 34 per cent of the barrel over those seven years, which is a heavy toll and explains the concentration. Kings County was founded in 2010 by Colin Spoelman and David Haskell and works with organic New York corn and English malted barley on Scottish-made copper pot stills.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeep and resinous, with dark caramel, dried cherry, tobacco leaf and toasted oak, the 107 proof carrying it long. Drink it neat in a heavy glass, with a couple of drops of water if you want the fruit to come forward. A single large cube is the most you should do.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288140607547,"sku":"19554-750","price":366.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/19554-750.png?v=1790124460"},{"product_id":"kings-county-barrel-strength-bourbon-63-8-2020","title":"Kings County Barrel Strength Bourbon 63.8% 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Barrel Strength Bourbon 63.8% is an uncut Brooklyn bourbon bottled straight from the barrel in a half-size format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarrel strength at Kings County means exactly that: nothing added, nothing cut, drawn from the older end of the distillery's bourbon inventory. The house recipe leans hard on malted barley alongside organic New York corn, with no wheat or rye, and the spirit is double distilled in copper pot stills in the manner of a Scotch distillery instead of the column stills used across most of Kentucky. Everything happens in the Paymaster Building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where Colin Spoelman and David Haskell set up in 2012. At 63.8 per cent this is the full, undiluted house style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDense and sweet-edged, with burnt sugar, baked fruit, malt and a long peppery heat. Neat is the point, in a small measure, and a few drops of water will open it considerably. 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Batch 14, bottled in 2021, carries a four-year age statement while including components up to six and a half years old. Colin Spoelman points out that this is where pot distillation shows its hand: narrow head cuts, 72 per cent in this case, strip the harsh early compounds and leave a finer spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurnt brown sugar, marzipan, caramel and vanilla wafer with black pepper, then an oak-driven palate of wild cherry, clove and leather. Bold but smooth. Neat with a drop of water; the 200ml bottle makes it an easy one to try before committing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288140902459,"sku":"19551-200","price":71.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/19551-200.png?v=1790124460"},{"product_id":"kings-county-barrel-strength-bourbon-65-2022","title":"Kings County Barrel Strength Bourbon 65% 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Barrel Strength Bourbon 65% is the highest-proof bourbon the distillery has ever released.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn allocated whiskey these days, and this allotment is a particularly small blend built from the oldest barrels left in the bourbon inventory. Sixty-six barrels went into Batch 15 across three different cask sizes, most of them from one of the distillery's last remaining lots of 10-gallon barrels, which accelerate wood extraction dramatically. At 65 per cent it is the strongest bourbon Kings County has bottled. Small-barrel maturation of this kind is what gave Brooklyn craft whiskey its early reputation, and there is not much of that old stock left anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNose and palate are tightly connected: brandied cherry, maple syrup, mahogany, brown sugar and toasted malt, closing on stewed plum and caramelised shortbread. Serve neat in a small pour, with water on the side. 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Founder Colin Spoelman calls it a \"superior, all-purpose spirit\" and adds, with a grin, that \"this isn't the Blended Bourbon our parents drank\". Every contributing spirit type is listed on the label with its age and barrel format, which is rare transparency. Batch 1 arrives in a new blue label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmooth and approachable, with honey, caramel, citrus-tinged vanilla and a satisfying rye spiciness underneath. Bright enough to sip neat over a cube and robust enough to hold its shape in a Manhattan, a Whiskey Sour or a highball with soda and a lemon twist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288141262907,"sku":"21151-750","price":176.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/21151-750.png?v=1790124385"},{"product_id":"kings-county-bottled-in-bond-bourbon","title":"Kings County Bottled in Bond Bourbon","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Bottled in Bond Bourbon is a 100-proof Brooklyn bourbon meeting the American bonded standard, in a half-size bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBottled in Bond is the strictest label in American whiskey: distilled, aged and bottled at a single distillery from barrels filled in one season, at least four years old and bottled at precisely 100 proof. Kings County was among the first craft distillers to take it on. The house mash leans on organic New York corn with a high proportion of English malted barley and no wheat or rye at all, and the spirit is double distilled in copper pot stills in the Paymaster Building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The bonded designation means the bottle is a straight snapshot of one season's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRounded and classic, with caramel, baked apple, malt loaf and a firm oak spine, the 100 proof giving it grip without heat. Neat or over one large cube. It makes a textbook Old Fashioned, and the smaller bottle is a good way in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288141361211,"sku":"14829-375","price":118.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/14829-375.png?v=1790124518"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.divino.com.au\/collections\/american-wine.oembed?page=2","provider":"DiVino.com.au","version":"1.0","type":"link"}