Hedges Family Estate Red Mountain

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Typically $30/bottle from Hedges Family Estate
Vintage 2023 from Red Mountain
Available for AL; AZ; AR; CA; CO; CT; DC; FL; GA; ID; IL; IN; IA; KS; KY; LA; ME; MD; MA; MI; MN; MO; MT; NE; NV; NH; NJ; NM; NY; NC; ND; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VT; VA; WA; WV; WI; WY
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About Hedges Family Estate: “Led by a passion for authenticity and a deep connection to the land they call home, the Hedges Family epitomizes the modern wine estate.”

Shrubs With Private Jets

TASTING NOTES: “Aroma/Flavor: black currant/plum/coriander/sage/hazelnut/cocoa powder/toffee. Texture: bright/balanced/fleshy/spicy/chewy.” (AbV 14%, pH 4.05)

VARIETALS: 56% Cabernet Sauvignon / 25% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc / 1% Malbec, 1% Petit verdot

BARRELS: New oak barrels.

PAIRS WITH: N/A

THAT REMINDS ME OF: Hedges, the winery’s name, and the word’s long career from garden fence to Wall Street.

A hedge is a row of shrubs you plant to mark a boundary, and somewhere along the way “hedge your bets” turned it into a verb for protecting yourself from loss. The financial version has a founding father: Alfred Winslow Jones, a sociologist (with a Columbia PhD, no less) who started an investment partnership in 1949. His trick was to buy stocks he liked and short the ones he didn’t, so a market-wide swing would cancel out and only his picking skill would be left. The label “hedge fund” showed up later, and I find it hilarious that an industry now synonymous with private jets and eleven-figure paydays is named after the thing between you and the neighbor’s driveway.

The linguists got there too. In 1972, George Lakoff wrote a paper literally titled “Hedges,” about words like sort of, technically, loosely speaking, and kind of, the little shrubs we plant around a sentence so nobody can hold us to it. Once you know the term you hear them everywhere. I’m basically a hedge row, honestly, or at least something like one, in a way.

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I hedge constantly, kind of a lot, honestly

I hedge constantly, kind of a lot, honestly
Only when I'm not totally sure I'm right

Only when I'm not totally sure I'm right
I say what I mean and skip the shrubbery

I say what I mean and skip the shrubbery
I never noticed until you pointed it out

I never noticed until you pointed it out
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