Laughing Stock
-Story: Two retired stock brokers and investment consultants open a winery with some pretty stellar marketing. All stock markers and ticker tape on the bottles. Very clean cut lines and well streamlined visuals. Even the interior is slightly excessively clean cut. We met the owners briefly at the end as we shut down the winery, last people there.
Wines-
Profile-as in stock profile, is a really great blend of more than a couple grapes. Interesting note: Each wine in the blend is aged 14 months, then barrels are chosen depending on which will yield the best results. After blending, the wine is put back into oak for another 4-6 months to finish off and become a finished product.
Blind Trust White- Another blend, this time of the white grapes on the estate. Interesting note here is that the blend isn't shown on the bottle until you peel back the foil at the top, under which the specific grapes in the blend are written. Hence the name blind trust. I picked up apricot and lychee right away. The taster girl said that was the viognier inside it speaking out. So I bought a bottle of viognier, one of the only wines they weren't tasting that day. Blind trust, right?
Blind Trust red- Same story as the white, same high quality.
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