VineBuzz

On Friday, October 28, 2011, good fortune smiled upon me when Claire Gabaldon, brand ambassador at T-Vine Winery, granted me a detailed tasting of. and presentation on, their portfolio. It's clear that their long standing family friendships and the distance that they will reach for the best fruit have a lot to do with the outstanding wine that they produce.  T-Vine provides hospitality temporarily inside the Regusci Winery by appointment only, while their permanent visitor center in Calistoga comes into existence.

The Regusci Winery building sits neatly tucked into a hillside in the Stags' Leap AVA for more than 130 years, with a natural cave
effect keeping the cellarage at the right temperature on even the hottest of days.  It was built as the T.L. Grigsby - Occidental Winery in 1878, constructed with thick walls of lava stone, which resulted in an ideal circumstance for barrel-aging fine wines.

Over the course of their 20 year multi-generational enterprise, they have specialized in old & ancient Cabernet, Grenache,
Zinfandel, and Petite Syrah vines, (as well as some Carignane and Malvasia field-blended into the mix) with a lot of help from their extended family of extraordinary growers in some of the best terroirs for Grenache, Merlot, and Charbono.  Serious wine visitors will
want to know more about the extended family and their vineyards, as well as the growers whom they work with in the Central Coast and the Central Valley.

T-Vine has one foot squarely in Bordeaux styles, while the other has made its' mark in Rhoneism. 
Like other fine wineries in northern California, they have spared no expense in finding, procuring, and executing on all the right sources for their ever-improving lineup.

Two cases of heroics in sourcing speak reams about their commitment to working with the best fruit. 
A cult is springing up with the "G-Spot"

Made of Grenache Blanc from Paso Robles, it enjoys calcareous clay and cobbled sandy loam soils, that lend to the fruit all of the
characteristics needed to create the legend that it has become.  One should not go through the rest of life wondering where their G-spot might be found. 
It is part of T-Vines second label, Dirty Pure Wines. 

The second wine on this label is called the "F-bomb"

which is a Grenache Noir.  Its' vineyard sits in a well-drained Chamise with gravelly clay and sandstone in Santa Barbara county.  I don't want to spoil these miracles of optimal ripening, fermentation, extraction, maturation, and extended aging for
you, other than to insist that you put T-Vine on your "To Do" list.