Meza Wine Club: June 2025
Natural Red / White
Wine 1: Dreamcote Sauvignon Blanc
Tasting Notes: Bright fresh lime, lemon curd, cracked green pepper and soft peaches. An easy drinking white with that will make your Winter season blossom!
Vineyard Facts: Camp 4 sits on the eastern edge of Santa Ynez Valley within the bounds of Santa Barbara County. This site was originally owned by Fess Parker and is now owned by the Chumash tribe. The name itself “camp 4” was a stop or a camp en route from San Francisco to Yuma Arizona while the stage coaches were running back and forth.
Wine 2: The Perfect Red
We love day drinking glouglou as much as anyone else (or maybe slightly more) but sometimes you need to sit down and drink a bottle of wine with a proper dinner at home on any given weeknight. Something fresh and crunchy, but with a bit more structure. Nothing too fancy mind you: think hanger steak and green salad rather than dry-aged beef and lobster tails.
The original Perfect Red came from a happy accident in one of Michel Théron’s (Clos du Jaugueyron) vineyards and led to a Clairet-style bottling dubbed ‘Le Rouge Parfait’ in 2018. With this kind of Tuesday night drinking in mind, we decided to keep bottling Perfect Reds as we came across them, first in Chris Brockway’s Berkeley cellar and later in the Douro at Mateus Nicolau De Almeida’s.
As with all of our wines, rest assured that these are all made with organic fruit, fermented with native yeasts, and have little to no added sulfur, just the way we like them. So, here's to natty wine not always being iridescent, steak wine not always being expensive, and to always having The Perfect Red for any occasion.
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