tercero Cinsault & Cinsault Rosé

Tasting notes & discussion 67

Typically $30/bottle Cinsault Rosé and $40/bottle Cinsault from tercero Wines
Vintage 2017 Cinsault and 2020 Rosé from Santa Barbara County
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About tercero Wines
Larry Schaffer IS tercero wines. Once upon a time, he worked in the ever stable “music” and “publishing” industries. He soon realized that he desired more from life, perhaps more of a challenge. So, he went back to school, faced down humanity’s age old foe “The Sciences,” and emerged with degrees in both Viticulture and Enology, leading to a promising future in wine. A year after he moved to the Santa Ynez Valley and worked as enologist for Fess Parker Winery, he took the plunge and started making his own wines under a personal label: tercero wines.

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TASTING NOTES:
2020 Rosé - “…the lightest color rose you will ever see - but it aromatically screams rose, and it offers wonderful fruity and floral aromatics, great acidity, and a surprisingly smooth and long finish.“ (AbV 12%)

2017 - “This wine reminds me more of a Pinot Noir than any other wine that I produce, both aromatically and texturally. It reminds me of some of the whole cluster pinots I helped craft elsewhere.” (AbV 12.3%)

BARRELS:
Rosé in combination stainless steal and old French oak. 2017 in just older French oak for 16 months.

TANGENTIALLY RELATED FACT to help you make conversation over this wine:
In National Treasure, Nicholas Cage, as Benjamin Gates, steals the Declaration of Independence and visits various monuments on the East coast in a bid to both redeem his family’s name and prevent a group of cutthroat individuals from getting a treasure trove of artifacts worth a fortune. It was fun. In National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Nicholas Cage, as Benjamin Gates again, gets kicked out of Buckingham Palace, kidnaps the president, steals a book from the Library of Congress, and locates an ancient city of gold, all in an effort to discredit the implication that one of his ancestors might have had some involvement with the people who killed Lincoln. It was… something. In National Treasure 3, we don’t know what happens. It’s still happening, apparently, but it’s been 15 years. Maybe the treasure is the movie itself?

PAIRS WITH (winery recommended):
Nearly everything.

OR (really-going-with-the-theme-option):
The practical application of weirdly specific historical knowledge.

tercero Cinsault & Cinsault Rosé

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