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Debbie.....Er......heather does Dallas!!

Hi, from the lone star state. Ambiente distributers is hosting 5 trade shows all over Texas. Me, the Harlot, will be following these crazy Texans around to "jock" our Twisted juices. Big shot out to the cowboys (football) playing the field!

The Green Room

Bushwalla concert tonight. Join us!

It's wine on drugs!

 

Dude, I am so totally peaking!! Whoa buddy!

Men at work........

..........or something like that. These two are not to be confused with garbage men!
Although there is an equal of faux productivety.

Hot to trot!!

This one's for the male wino's!

Let the fun begin!

She's Twisted!

The Village........ Bwa ha ha!

We are here in Montclair Village, a subburb of Oakland. The 6th annual Montclair Village Wine & Jazz is about to begin. Come by the Twisted table if you have plans to attend. There are 24 wineries under one large tent, we're the cats with the rubber chickens! Meowwwww! 1 to 6 pm is the time to wine !!

Hello...My name is Inigo Montoya

The 08 estate Tempranillo is shown above in all of its fermentative glory...the technical term we use for a fermentation progressing like this is "Roaring"!  We are doing quite a bit more fermentations this year with native yeasts, and this is one of them.  This lot is destined for our flagship wine...The Spaniard

Sir Ron Yeah is in tha HOUSE!!

So this is how it works...

Get beautifully consistent fruit from Tanner Vineyard

Crush that Syrah into a tank

Receive intensely flavored Viognier grapes on the same day

Lightly press Viognier to .4 bars of pressure

Dump very wet & sloppy skins (shown above) out of press and into bins

Dump those bins on top of the Syrah ferment from Tanner

Voilà!

Once the intense flavor of the Viognier skins integrates with the Syrah, we'll have our first Syrah/Viognier since 2005!