Bonny Doon Contra Old Vine Field Blend

Description

Contra is a wine that reflects the opposite of modern wine sensibilitiesof wines over-worked and amped up, pushed and prodded into Procrustean palate-numbing sameness. A rebours, this wine is a contrarian blend of perhaps the most old-fangled grape variety, carignane, from several extremely old 100 year+, non-grafted, dry-farmed head-trained vineyards, located in Contra Costa County, and the puer aeternus syrah, young, vibrant, racy and peppery. Contra is a somewhat contradictory flashback/forward to the straightforward, frank wines of yester- and future-year. A field blend that contravenes contraindicated convention, with aromas of black cherry and licorice, flavorful cassis, blackberries and silky tannins. A wine hardly contraindicated for gastronomy, it is above all, contrapuntal. – Bonny Doon Vineyard