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CALIFORNIA WINES FROM A WINE PROFESSIONAL
From a wine professional comes this deep collection of California wines, including one of the deepest collections of SQN to come to market in recent memory.
SINE QUA NON
Sine Qua Non officially hit the scene in the mid 1990s, with heavy, odd-shaped bottles, gaudy labels and ostentatious proprietary names such as Omadhaun Poltron, Imposter McCoy and The Other Hand. Brilliant pieces of marketing, there are often serial like stories attached to each. Yields are incredibly miniscule often under one ton per acre from a combination of old vines, canopy management and shoot thinning. In the winery, processes utilitized include indigenous yeasts, lengthy cold soak, traditional open top fermenters, several punch downs, extended skin contact, malolactic fermentation in new oak casks, and just one racking prior to bottling. The wines are outrageously rich yet have subtlety and definition of flavor. Not only just a different moniker each year it is a different wine each year as the wine is sourced from the usual vineyards in the proportion for which they are producing. Originally, the Rhône varieties were sourced from the Alban, Bien Nacido, and Stolpman vineyards with the pinot juice being sourced from the famed Shea Vineyard of Oregon. Although each year there is an increasing emphasis to use fruit solely from the Santa Rita Hills, particularly the Eleven Confessions estate vineyard. With artisanal practices and acute attention to detail in the vineyard, winery and canvas, production is exceedingly minute with most cuvées hovering around 500 cases a year and even less for the late-harvest wines. The Krankls fully invest their heart, soul and personality into the art of each bottle.
Just For the Love of It, Syrah--Vintage 2002
Santa Barbara, Sine Qua Non
2 bottles per lot
From a wine professional comes this deep collection of California wines, including one of the deepest collections of SQN to come to market in recent memory.
SINE QUA NON
Sine Qua Non officially hit the scene in the mid 1990s, with heavy, odd-shaped bottles, gaudy labels and ostentatious proprietary names such as Omadhaun Poltron, Imposter McCoy and The Other Hand. Brilliant pieces of marketing, there are often serial like stories attached to each. Yields are incredibly miniscule often under one ton per acre from a combination of old vines, canopy management and shoot thinning. In the winery, processes utilitized include indigenous yeasts, lengthy cold soak, traditional open top fermenters, several punch downs, extended skin contact, malolactic fermentation in new oak casks, and just one racking prior to bottling. The wines are outrageously rich yet have subtlety and definition of flavor. Not only just a different moniker each year it is a different wine each year as the wine is sourced from the usual vineyards in the proportion for which they are producing. Originally, the Rhône varieties were sourced from the Alban, Bien Nacido, and Stolpman vineyards with the pinot juice being sourced from the famed Shea Vineyard of Oregon. Although each year there is an increasing emphasis to use fruit solely from the Santa Rita Hills, particularly the Eleven Confessions estate vineyard. With artisanal practices and acute attention to detail in the vineyard, winery and canvas, production is exceedingly minute with most cuvées hovering around 500 cases a year and even less for the late-harvest wines. The Krankls fully invest their heart, soul and personality into the art of each bottle.
Just For the Love of It, Syrah--Vintage 2002
Santa Barbara, Sine Qua Non
2 bottles per lot