Don Quixote El Sabio Frestón Red Blend by Tooth & Nail Wine Co.

Tasting notes & discussion 24

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Typically $84/bottle from Tooth & Nail Wine Co.
Vintage 2021 from Paso Robles
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About Tooth & Nail Wine Co.: “Rob Murray grew up on a family farm in the Central Valley and followed his destiny to California’s Central Coast, where he learned winegrowing from the ground up.”

Blame The Enchanter

TASTING NOTES: “Cherry, raspberry” (AbV 14.5%, pH 3.56)

VARIETALS: 59% Grenache, 36% Syrah, 5% Mourvèdre

BARRELS: All neutral 500 and 600L puncheons

PAIRS WITH: Roast leg of lamb with scalloped potatoes

THAT REMINDS ME OF: Freston — the giant in Don Quixote who is definitely, 100% not a giant.

Specifically, Frestón is the evil enchanter Don Quixote blames when reality fails to cooperate with his delusions. Windmills look like giants? Frestón. Sheep look like an army? Frestón. Roadside inn looks like a castle? Frestón did that too, probably. He’s the in-universe explanation for every single time Don Quixote is catastrophically wrong about what he’s looking at, which is essentially always. A villain invented to paper over a protagonist’s complete inability to perceive the world accurately.

It’s a remarkably useful concept and I’m a little surprised it never caught on as a common noun. Every era has its Frestón — the shadowy force you blame when your confident prediction turns out to be a windmill. The enchanter who made the meeting go long, who scrambled the GPS, who is definitely responsible for whatever just happened to the stock market. Medieval literature invented a whole character just to be the reason a man on a horse could charge at livestock and remain technically blameless, and honestly that’s more psychologically sophisticated than half the self-help shelf at the airport.

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Who's buying this?

How are you buying your bottles?

Have you ever gone full Don Quixote — committed to something you knew was a windmill?

Yes, and I'd do it again — some causes are worth the tilt

Yes, and I'd do it again — some causes are worth the tilt
Yes, and I learned my lesson the hard way

Yes, and I learned my lesson the hard way
I've caught myself mid-tilt and quietly backed down

I've caught myself mid-tilt and quietly backed down
I'm pretty good at telling windmills from giants

I'm pretty good at telling windmills from giants
Comments — tell me about your windmill ↓

Comments — tell me about your windmill ↓

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Don Quixote El Sabio Frestón Red Blend by Tooth & Nail Wine Co.

Who's buying this?

How are you buying your bottles?

Have you ever gone full Don Quixote — committed to something you *knew* was a windmill?

Have you ever gone full Don Quixote — committed to something you knew was a windmill?