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 Artwork by Michelangelo Alessio So I called another grower to buy yet another batch of Syrah (this time from Brentwood instead of Amador) Luckily this didn’t happen a couple of weeks later or my GSM would be a GM. Most of these went into the 2009 Red Roan, but 8 bottles were held back and bottled as a varietal. Field of Dreams Vineyard, Contra Costa County
Roan is a coat color found in many animals, notably horses, cattle and dogs. It is defined generally as a mixture of pigmented hairs that does not fade as the animal ages. The Grenache and Mataro came from “Wine Tree Farms” in Amador County, and the Syrah from Brentwood’s “Field Of Dreams”. Label artwork by Isabella Alessio Field Of Dreams Vineyard in Brentwood, Contra Costa County, San Francisco Bay AVA. White Syrah
Mataro is the California name for what the french call “Mourvèdre”, The Spanish “Monastrell” and the Portuguese “Mataró”. This wine is 100% Mataro from the Silvaspoons vineyard in the newly christened “Alta Mesa AVA”, which is a sub-appellation of Lodi. Total production under 3 cases. The artwork on the label was done by Michelangelo Alessio
This was the first grape wine I made, and was a trial run for the real thing. It came from a Mostimondiali Juice pail early in the summer of 2007 so it’s likely a 2006 product hence the name “Pail 6”. It came out with a huge body and oak, mainly because I played with it rather than sticking to the manufacturer’s instructions. I bottled it twice. After the first bottling, where I drank 2 or 3 bottles, I learned the hard way about de-gassing kit wines, as it had a distinct fizz. I then decanted the whole lot and stuck it in a brand new small format Hungarian oak barrel from Vadai. The result was an over oaked bomb, mostly suited for blending; fortunately I had several wines in need of this. The vast majority of this wine is blended into the following: The rest is bottled alone. |
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Real food does not pretend to be something else…butter not margarine sugar not splenda cheese not cheese-food bacon not facon hamburgers not garden burgers hot dogs not soy dogs coffee comes from beans, not flavour crystals and just say no to decaf! never mind the abomination of na beerCopyright © 2026 Michael Alessio - All Rights Reserved |
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Mislabled as 2010 due to a brain fart; I had to go back and cross the date off of every label and hand write in the correct year DOH! 
