Bonny Doon Vineyard Le Cigare Volant 2021

SKU: BD204A-21
Bonny Doon Vineyard Le Cigare Volant 2021

Bonny Doon Vineyard Le Cigare Volant 2021

SKU: BD204A-21

A beautiful wine, dark mulberry color, and a first nose of dark, cool loamy earth with suggestions of raspberries, Damson plums and cherry/chocolate. On the palate, it is sleek and racy with a lively acidity, very soft tannins and great persistence. This is a wine from an extremely cool and elegant vintage, and by all experience, should be a great prospect for very long ageing and development. 

Regular price $210
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Country: USA
Region: California
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Grape: Grenache

Type: Red wine

Style: Complex & elegant red

Region: California

Country: USA

Bottle Size: 750ml

Alcohol: 13.50%

Food Match: Lamb dishes, moroccan tagline & short ribs

Biodynamic:Yes

RRP:210.0

While Bonny Doon Vineyard began with the (in retrospect) foolish attempt to replicate Burgundy in California, Randall Grahm realized early on that he would have far more success creating more distinctive and original wines working with Rhône varieties in the Central Coast of California.The key learning here was that in a warm, Mediterranean climate, it is usually blended wines that are most successful. In 1986 Bonny Doon Vineyard released the inaugural vintage (1984) of Le Cigare Volant, an homage to Châteauneuf-du-Pape, and this continues as the winery’s flagship/starship brand. Since then, Bonny Doon Vineyard has enjoyed a long history of innovation – the first to truly popularize Rhône grapes in California, to successfully work with cryo-extraction for sundry “Vins de Glacière, the first to utilize microbullage in California, the first to popularize screwcaps for premium wines, and, quite significantly, the first to embrace true transparency in labeling with its ingredient labeling initiative.The upside of all of this activity has brought an extraordinary amount of creativity and research to the California wine scene; the doon-side, as it were, was perhaps an ever so slight inability to focus, to settle doon, if you will, into a single, coherent direction.