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Cheers! from the Duke of Bourbon
The Duke is delighted to offer futures once again on the magnificent wines from Doug Margerum, winemaker, restaurateur, retailer and all-around good guy. We are also able to bring you a very special offering from the equally talented hands of Chuck Carlson, a great winemaker and another all-around good guy. Chuck is the winemaker at the small, upscale Curtis Winery in Los Olivos in the Santa Ynez Valley. Incidentally, Doug leases space at Curtis to make his red wines. Chuck and Doug, friends for many years, were both guests at our last Wine Association seminar.At that event, we had the opportunity to taste (again) all five of the wines described below and fell in love (again) with all of them. They exemplify Central Coast winemaking at it's very finest. These wines are all in short supply - infinitesimal for two of them. Do not miss out on your share, ACT NOW!
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Margerum 2004 M5 - - - - - Winemaker - Doug Margerum
The intriguing five-component blend of M5 is 40% Syrah, 20% Grenache, 22% Mourvedre, 8% Counoise and 4% Cinsault, for a sub-total of 94%. The remaining 6% is something Doug calls the Genesis of M5. This is a co-fermentation of the winery production - basically a little bit of each of M5's elements. Here is the story: Doug usually buys in one-ton increments because he can fit a ton of crushed grapes into his three-quarter-ton insulated fermentation bins. For some reason, he kept getting 1.1 tons of everything. He started a little natural yeast fermentation that he continually added to over the two months of harvest and it kept going as he added fuel (unfermen
ted wine grapes) to the fire. All said and done, he had a fermentation where some grapes were on their skins for sixty days. Once pressed, he realized he had done something special and it was an integral beginning of the final blend - a wine with flavors beyond anything that would have evolved from the individual components. As Doug says every year - this is a wine that is from a thought, an amalgamation of memories both distant and recent of wines he has tasted and loved the past 31 years. The 2004 M5 is a little darker and a little richer than the 2003, but Doug thinks it is an even more fulfilling wine.
Release Price $25.00 per bottle - Futures Price $19.99 per bottle (Release Date: October 1, 2005)Margerum 2004 Syrah, Colson Canyon - - - - - Winemaker - Doug Margerum
Colson Canyon is always the sexiest, most intriguing and most interesting Syrah of the group that Doug produces. This is the "Bold and the Beautiful" of wines, as it has a beguiling and complex plot line with an alluring undercurrent; full of the beautiful dark fruit, earth, and scents of wild things that attract you as you become familiar with the wine. This is a wine that will age very well. In the mouth, it is full and resolute with massive core fruit and a long, determined finish. It is also un-fined and unfiltered.
Release Price $30.00 per bottle - Futures Price $25.50 per bottle. Buy 6 or more and receive an additional 5% discount, making the final price just $24.25 per bottle. (Release Date: October 1, 2005) Margerum 2004 Syrah, Black Oak - - - - - Winemaker - Doug Margerum
The wonderful people who own this vineyard, Dan and Meagan Reeves, approached Doug in 2003 to see if he wanted to work with the fruit grown at their steep, well maintained vineyard planted deep in the valley of Alisos Canyon. Doug proclaims that only one other time did he have a barrel of wine that reaches out like this wine does. He claims to have gone to this barrel a hundred times in the last year to taste and says that it always gets better. He threatens that he may never bottle it. It could be 36 months in barrel. Jim Clendenen declared it to be the best wine in Margerum's winery. It is a year old in people years, but a mere infant in Black Oak Syrah years. Production? A paltry 50 cases!
Release Price $50.00 per bottle - Futures Price $42.50 per bottle. Buy 6 or more and receive an additional 5% discount, making the final price just $40.39 per bottle. (Release Date: April 1, 2006) Barrack 2003 Piocho - - - - - Winemaker - Doug Margerum
Piocho translates as "where two rivers meet and go to heaven" . . . a lovely image for a gorgeous wine. The 2003 Piocho is a blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Cabernet Franc, and 10% Merlot produced entirely from Tom and Laurel Barrack's superb vineyard in the eastern end of the Santa Ynez Valley. This is a fairly new area for grape growing and the results from the Barrack property as well as the surrounding vineyards have been spectacular for Bordeaux varietals. Doug seems to have hit on the perfect combination of those varietals for this gem. It was aged for 18 months in a combination of new and aged Taransaud barrels from France. It is deep ruby in color, with a smooth entry and rich full flavors. A dense core of sweet black fruit - black cherries, blackberries, black currants - is well-integrated with hints of minerals, vanilla and toasty oak, leading to a long, lovely finish. This is definitely a long-term wine!
Release Price $30.00 per bottle - Futures Price $24.99 per bottle. Buy 6 or more and receive an additional 5% discount, making the final price just $23.75 per bottle. (Release Date: October 1, 2005) Rock Hollow 2003 Syrah, Defilade - - - - - Winemaker - Chuck Carlson
With the Syrah Noir clone from the impeccably farmed Rock Hollow vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley, Chuck employs his traditional small-lot production techniques - open topped t-bins, cold soaked for four days, fermented with Rhone isolate yeasts, basket pressed and aged 16 months in barrel. This is a legendary wine around the Central Coast area and this was our first chance to try it. It has a silky texture, smooth tannins and a very full, chocolaty and ripe berry flavor. This is a big wine and both a winemaker's dream and nightmare. It is so perfect in barrel that you don't want to lose it. Total production of this classic was less than 100 cases.
Release Price $35.00 per bottle - Futures Price $29.99 per bottle. Buy 6 or more and receive an additional 5% discount, making the final price just $28.50 per bottle. (Release Date: June 15, 2005)
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