Friday, March 28th
Boutique California Wine Tasting
($20 per person, 4pm - 6pm)
Featuring new showstopper wines from cult classic Raj Parr and Sonoma Fresh Digs from Lioco!
Domaine South
Call 256-759-9952 to Reserve
Boutique California Wine Tasting
Domaine South
Friday, March 28th
4pm - 6pm, $20
With Special Guest, Beth Farris of Grassroots
256-759-9952 to Reserve
2023 Lioco Chardonnay, Sonoma, California $30.99
You've heard about 2023, right? The return to a classic California vintage. All of it wash and picked in early to mid-October (in itself, a news story). The fruit was crushed—in this case, foot tread, back at the winery, and pressed out into stainless steel tanks. For the first time in many years, we elected not to blend down any barrel-fermented lots into SoCo—it's 100% tank fermented and aged, and it shows the Chablis-like tension and minerality we find only in the coldest growing years. This wine is mouthwatering and buttressed with a low 3.4 pH. Opened bottles should hold up for several days in the bar fridge...if they last that long.
AROMA lemon blossom, orchard fruits, crushed stone
FLAVOR mineral, pomelo, white tea
2023 Scythian "Cucamonga Revolution" Rosé, Cucamonga Valley, California $28.99
70% Zinfandel and 30% Palomino from the Lopez Vineyard, planted in 1912. The vines are planted on sandy granite soils and are dry farmed and never sprayed or treated in any way.
Scythian Wine Co. is a new project from sommelier-turned-vigneron Raj Parr that highlights the nearly lost viticultural heritage of Los Angeles. Before prohibition, the city was the center of the California wine industry, producing highly regarded wines from varieties like Palomino, Mission, Garnacha Tintorera and Zinfandel planted on sandy soils. A few of these own-rooted, dry-farmed, vineyards endure, largely due to the stewardship of the Galleano family. With a few collaborators, Raj Parr started exploring, then rehabilitating, some of the most interesting plots of these vines in 2019. The vineyards are relics, sandwiched between warehouses, corporate headquarters, neighborhoods and highways around Los Angeles County. The vines are almost all over 100-years-old, and none of the vineyards have ever been treated with pesticides fungicides, or even sulfur or copper. From these marvels of endurance and survival, Raj makes low-intervention wines in a small cellar near Boyle Heights, working with minimal additives and neutral vessels. The Scythian Wine Company wines are a fascinating opportunity to taste a fundamentally different side of the history of California wine.
2023 Scythian "Cucamonga Revolution" White, Cucamonga Valley, California $28.99
100% Palomino from the Lopez Vineyard, planted in 1912. The soils are sandy granite, and much of the vineyard has been left unpruned for the past several years. These old vines produce very small amounts of fruit, but it is hoped that continued pruning and care will restore their vigor. The vineyard is dry farmed and has never been sprayed or treated in any way. The grapes were harvested by hand, left whole cluster, and pressed to ferment without temperature control in neutral used French oak barrels. Rested and aged in the same vessels before bottling. Bottled without fining or filtering and with only 20ppm SO2 added. A harmonious mixture of salty, fresh, and lush elements. As thirst-quenching as it is interesting and engaging.
2023 Brij Wines Genache Rose, San Luis Obispo, California $32.99
Variety: Grenache
While we’ve worked with wines from Rajat Parr for year (cue Evening Land, Sandhi, DDLC), the new project Phelan Farm has a new aim. The goal here is regenerative farming with its home base in the coastal region of Cambria at Steiner Lake. In this journey, he uses varieties one might use in the Savoie or Jura regions of France, Gruner, Syrah or even sometimes using apples as the base. The fruit is often estate fruit, though it is often purchased from other trusted farmer friends. The wines show American terroir through the lens of a European. The production is miniscule and the wines are special.
This 100% Grenache rose comes from vines in San Louis Obispo County. After harvest the grapes direct-pressed with the slightest skin-contact and fermented in 2000L foudre. Unfined, unfiltered and no added SO2.
2023 Brij Wines ‘Oso’ Rouge, San Luis Obispo, California $35.99
A blend of 65% Mourvèdre and 35% Grenache from the Rancho Arroyo Vineyard in the San Luis Obispo Coast AVA. Whole-cluster fermentation. Aging in used oak barrels with no fining, filtration, or sulfur at bottling. Fruit-forward red blend with ripe berry flavors, soft tannins, and subtle earthy notes. Versatile and approachable for any occasion.
2023 Lioco Indica Red, Mendocino, California $28.99
Winemaker Notes: AROMA: blueberry compote, dried rosemary, iron
FLAVOR: plum skin, granite, black raspberr
Dry-farmed, old vine Carignan from Bartolomei (Talmage) and McCutchen (Pine Mountain) Splash of Valdiguie from Lolonis (Redwood Valley) Hand-harvested. Sourced from a few historic Mendocino County ranches, some on the valley floor, some at high elevation All with heritage dry-farmed, head-trained vines Soils ranging from red clay to hard scrabbly rocky soils 75% whole cluster. Partial Carbonic Maceration Aged 10 months in a mix of neutral oak barriques, puncheons, and stainless steel 12.9% abv