Bronze Age Reputation, Vulcanized Truth
TASTING NOTES: “The 2022 vintage produced a full and fruit-forward Cabernet Sauvignon featuring characters of strawberry, mixed berry pie, and bright cherry on the nose. The palate leads to flavors of cherry cola, strawberry jam, and soft vanilla framed by a fine, structured tannin profile. The palate finishes with a subtle touch of French oak and an elegant balance between tannin, acidity, and body.” (AbV 14.1%, pH 3.82, TA 5.5)
VARIETALS: Cabernet Sauvignon
BARRELS: Whole-berry fermentation in stainless steel fermenters with wet cap immersion, totaling 25 days of extended maceration 40% new French oak barrels
PAIRS WITH: N/A
THAT REMINDS ME OF: Slingshot
Picture David versus Goliath and you’re probably picturing it wrong. The image most people have — a forked stick with two rubber bands and a little leather pouch — didn’t exist for another two and a half thousand years. What David actually used was a sling: a single leather strap, twirled overhead and released, no elastic involved. The Y-shaped rubber-band slingshot couldn’t be invented until Charles Goodyear figured out vulcanized rubber in 1839, which means the “slingshot” as a physical object is a 19th-century American innovation wearing a Bronze Age reputation.
NASA borrowed the name anyway, more or less accurately. A “gravitational slingshot” is how spacecraft steal a little momentum from a planet’s gravity to pick up speed without burning extra fuel — Voyager 2 rode a slingshot assist off Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus on its way out of the solar system, which is either the most efficient use of a shortcut in history or just physics being polite enough to give you a push.
ICYMI, you have two choices:
Worried Summer heat might get to your wine before your wine gets to you? Order from this sale, the page you’re on right now, and we’ll get it to you at a cooler time of year (October)!
Want Protected Summer Shipping and don’t think heat will be a problem? Order from the sale linked here! We’ll still try to get them to you with as little travel time as we can.
Some places get absurdly hot during the Summer, and in particularly unpleasant circumstances, it can damage a wine. Most people get theirs no problem, but there are a couple each Summer that fall victim to the sun no matter how fast we get them to you. If you’ve experienced that before or are afraid it’ll happen to you, we’ll hold your order for you until October, if you order from the Summer Hold sale. We are reasonably sure things will be cooler then.
