Stagiaire 'Still Life with Hillside' Mendocino Zinfandel 2022 Gifts

Stagiaire 'Still Life with Hillside' Mendocino Zinfandel 2022 GiftsStagiaire is the ngociant label of Brent Mayeaux, a talented natural winemaker based in San Francisco who actually lives on Treasure Island, which, if you know anything about SF, is a profoundly weird place. This is Brent's first Zinfandel he's bottled since around 2018, from a hillside vineyard site in Mendocino on that overlooks a Buddhist monastery (Cali weirds). Old vines, planted in the 1970's, dry farmed. Brent did this wine with whole cluster

Alain Ducasse

a sense of wilderness instead of elegance

with very elegant bubbles and a foamy

and compote lemon

Coming from a winemaking family (COS is her uncle)

Full fruit

'Nitanto' is a blend of 50/50 Cinsault and Pais

and the groves are owned and farmed by distiller Mario Anastasio’s friends and family

but also to the tools we use on them – it's our specialty

Catalonia's most famous winemaking region

with well-integrated tannins and good acidity

A beautiful mezcal from distiller Benigno Sanchez in the Guerrero district