Slingshot North Coast Cabernet Sauvignon

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Typically $23/bottle from Stewart Cellars
Vintage 2021 from the North Coast
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About Stewart Cellars: “Slingshot is a family effort shepherded by James Stewart, Caroline Stewart Guthrie and family winemaker, Blair Gurthrie. Together, they joins 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.”

A Slingshot Glass

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, gravely 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: Cabernet Sauvignon with a little Petite Sirah.

BARRELS: 40% new French oak.

PAIRS WITH: N/A

THAT REMINDS ME OF: Shot glasses.

The origin of the shot glass is with the colloquial term for a small amount of alcohol, a “shot.” Where did that term come from? Well, some people liked to say that it was an Old West thing because they’d trade a bullet for a small glass of whiskey, but that is just a folktale. In truth, people have been calling small amounts of alcohol shots since the 17th century in England. Originally, it used to refer to a much larger amount, more than a flagon of ale, but over time it seems to have shrunk to the size of the proto-shot glass known as a whiskey taster/tumbler.

Anyway, did you know shot glasses aren’t standardized internationally? A single shot can be 25 mL in South Africa but a whole 100 mL in Bulgaria.

Slingshot North Coast Cabernet Sauvignon

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