~ Santa Ynez Valley | California ~

100% Gamay from a blend of several parcels of vines averaging 40 years of age within the Thévenet’s home village of Pierreclos

The estate's vocation as a winegrower dates back to the time of the Benedictine order

The mouth is very well-balanced and crispy

Barbeito Madeira "Island Rich" Irpinia Campi Taurasini ~ Santa Ynez Valley |RARE WINE COMPANY NOTES: Of the hundreds of companies who have produced and shipped Madeira over the past two centuries, only four remain in the hands of their original families: Blandy, Borges, DOliveira and Barbeito. The first three of these are proud survivors from the nineteenth centurytheir legacy insured by having stockpiled old vintages during the Phylloxera epidemic of the 1870s. The Barbeito family, on the other hand, entered the business