Twisted Oak Cockamamie + Blends

Tasting notes & discussion 75

Typically $39/bottle for the menagerie, but $29 for the Cockamamie
Oh, you want to know about the menagerie? Well, since you’re getting either 2 or 4 of them…
It consists of four blends from 2014 and 2015, more on them in the notes
Available for AZ; CA; CO; DC; FL; IA; ID; IL; KS; MI; MN; MO; MT; NC; NH; NV; NY; OH; OR; TN; TX; VA; WA; WI; WY
Sold by Twisted Oak, fulfilled by Wine Country Connect

About Twisted Oak
Twisted Oak* Winery was founded at the turn of the century, as the culmination of a long string of momentous decisions, including leaving a successful technical career, leaving the city life to move to a town of barely 2000 people, buying some really cool vacant land nearby, ripping our children out of high school, and deciding that starting a winery would be a really cool and fun thing to do.**

That vacant land with amazing views at 2000 feet in the Sierra Nevada Foothills turned out to be just the ticket for planting the Mediterranean varieties that we love: Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano, and most recently, Touriga Naçional***. And just for good measure we built a state-of-the-art, no-pumpover, four-level gravity flow winery, with open tank, stainless steel fermenters along with our own 300-foot barrel cave. So while we love to have fun, when it comes to wines, we mean business!

* The name? That comes from a real 350 year old California Blue Oak tree next to the crush pad. You can’t miss it!

** I will leave it to you to choose which decisions were good and which were poor!

*** It’s not just for Port any more!

/ˈkäkəˌmāmē/

TASTING NOTES:
Cockamamie - “A Cockamamie blend of 30% Monastrell (aka Mourvedre, but so much easier to say!), 30% Syrah, 30% Grenache, and 10% Petite Sirah! With this blend you might expect a similarity with our *%#&@! - but the Petite Sirah is in the house and demands a seat at the table. So you’ll pick up similar aromas of strawberries and flavors of cherries, but PS: there’s blueberries too!” (AbV 14.2%)

2014 Bearded Dragon - “Toro is an earthier relative of Tempranillo, so expect to find those same cherry and leather flavors, but with a dark fruit undertone.” (AbV 13.5%)

2014 Ol’ Chumbucket - “That pretty much sums it up - look for that Tempranillo cherry and tobacky, bright strawberry and rhubarb from the Garnacha and Carignane, smoky Mourvedre, and undertones of Petite Sirah.” (AbV 13.5%)

2015 Graciano - “It may be Graciano but it’s not a boxer and it ain’t Italian either. Still, you’ll find punchy aromas of plums, blackberries and jam with a wallop of dried spicy characters. Then a powerful jab of deep sweet blackberries and a one-two finish with dried herbs and spices. Come to think of it, this Twisted Freak is quite the knockout, isn’t it?” (AbV 14.5%)

2015 Touriga Naçional - “Touriga Naçional is a bit different than anything else you may have tasted. It has a nice character of blueberries, plums, and lilac, but it is layered with a sort of savory bacon layer dusted with cocoa.”

PAIRS WITH (winery recommended):
Cockamamie with grilled pork chops with grilled asparagus and grated Parmesan. Dragon with grilled game meats or a fine boeuf bourguignon. Chumbucket with spinach lasagna. Graciano with slooooow-roasted lamb shoulder. Touriga with any sort of rich cured pork products.

OR (really-going-with-the-theme-option):
Gamecock? Dragon? Chum?

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