Thacher Controlled Chaos Red Blend

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Typically $60/bottle from Thacher Winery & Vineyard
Vintage 2020 from Paso Robles
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About Thacher Winery & Vineyard: “We are a family-owned and operated, authentic wine producer located in one of the world’s most superb wine-growing regions and fueled by some of the most talented people. We believe in this place we call home and the handmade wines we have to share with you. We have come from other places and have varied backgrounds, and we are grateful to share this lovely part of California with those who are also drawn to Paso Robles.“

Chaos Controlled

TASTING NOTES: “A Paso Robles twist on the traditional Rhône blend, with Zinfandel playing the middle component. Controlled Chaos has undergone some changes in recent vintages. The addition of Counoise has helped drive fruit, while the percentage of the Mourvèdre component, always dominant, has increased. The Mourvèdre is also now always fermented with 50% whole bunches, which drives the savory, smoky, meaty aspects of the wine. The use of large format oak (450-500L barrels) has also kept the wine tighter, brighter and more linear.” (AbV 14.2%, pH 3.88, TA 0.55 g/100mL)

VARIETALS: 46% Mourvèdre, 24% Zinfandel, 21% Counoise, 9% Grenache.

BARRELS: 20 months in oak.

PAIRS WITH: N/A

THAT REMINDS ME OF: “Chaos Control,” the iconic technique of Shadow the Hedgehog. Relevant, also, because of that new Sonic movie featuring Shadow the Hedgehog.

What is a Shadow the Hedgehog? Well, it all started when Dr. Eggman’s grandfather Gerald Robotnik decided to make the ultimate lifeform to somehow cure his granddaughter, Maria’s, terminal illness. He ended up making an anthropomorphic hedgehog, like Sonic. Somehow.

So Maria and Gerald get murdered by the government on Gerald’s secret asteroid base known as the Space Colony ARK, but not before Maria shoots Shadow out an escape pod down to Earth. The government captures him and puts him in stasis, until Dr. Eggman breaks him out decades later.

Anyway, if Shadow has a Chaos Emerald (the Sonic franchise’s magical McGuffin), he can say “Chaos Control” and freeze time for everyone else.

Thacher Controlled Chaos Red Blend

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