Slingshot North Coast Cabernet Sauvignon

Tasting notes & discussion 29

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Typically $23/bottle from Stewart Cellars
Vintage 2021 from the North Coast
Available for AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; FL; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY
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About Stewart Cellars: “Slingshot is a family effort shepherded by James Stewart, Caroline Stewart Guthrie and family winemaker, Blair Guthrie. Together, they join their peers in focusing on issues surrounding sustainability, preservation, labor practices and maintaining family-owned businesses. Slingshot reflects the Stewart family’s ambition to preserve a vital family enterprise and practice meaningful land stewardship—both while producing fine wine from premium vineyards.”

North Ghost Coast to Coast

TASTING NOTES: “The 2021 vintage produced a concentrated and bold Cabernet Sauvignon featuring characters of strawberry rhubarb pie, black pepper, clove, and fresh blueberry. The palate leads to flavors of baked fig, mild cigar box, and blackcurrant framed by a bold, gravelly tannin structure provided by a small percentage of Petite Sirah. A touch of oak finishes the palate with an elegant balance between tannin, acidity, and body.” (AbV 14.5%, pH 3.79, TA 5.12 g/L)

VARIETALS: Mostly Cabernet Sauvignon, little bit of Petite Sirah.

BARRELS: French oak, 40% new.

PAIRS WITH: N/A

THAT REMINDS ME OF: Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

Cartoon Network officially launched in 1992, the first 24-hour cable channel for cartoons. The thing about cartoons is they were mostly aimed at kids. Pretty much exclusively. Kids typically aren’t watching after a certain point of the day. So what if we got something for a different audience?

Taking the characters and various animation assets from the 1960’s Hanna-Barbera show Space Ghost, the defunct superhero was reimagined as a washed-up talkshow host aided by two of his previous nemeses, Moltar and Zorak. Various guests were interviewed in CNN studios around the world, and then the footage of those interviews was sent along to be chopped up and riffed on by the writers.

109 episodes were made, 92 of them airing on Cartoon Network. It paved the way for what would become Cartoon Network’s adult-oriented block Adult Swim.

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