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2022 "El Galpon" Carneros Pinot Noir

2022

Price: $30.00
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El Galpon was born ten years ago, when I began aging a portion of my Carneros Pinot Noir in concrete. To make The Shop, my signature Carneros wine, I would blend the concrete aged and oak aged wines together in various proportions in order to combine the richness of the wine in oak with the brightness and freshness of the wine in concrete. In 2015 I bottled a small amount of the concrete aged wine separately, as an experiment, and called it El Galpon. Soon it took on a life of its own as I began adding a little Gamay to it in an effort to distinguish it further from The Shop, and to make it more "fun." After a few years of this I realized that it had evolved into something like the Carneros equivalent of a Passetoutgrain, a wine from Burgundy that is a combination of the same two varieties. I liked what the Gamay added to the blend but found that a little Gamay goes a long way, and so El Galpon usually has a lot less Gamay in it than a true Passetoutgrain. But I would like to think that it shares some of that wine's spirit.

 

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