Bonny Doon Contra Old Vine

Contra is a wine that reflects the opposite of modern wine sensibilities-of wines over-worked and amped up pushed and prodded into procrustean palate-numbing sameness. A rebours this wine is a contrarian blend of perhaps the most old-fangled grape variety carignane from several extremely old (100 year+) non-grafted dry-farmed head-trained vineyards located in contra costa county and the puer aeternus syrah young vibrant racy and peppery. Contra is a somewhat contradictory flashback/forward to the straightforward frank wines of yester- and future-year. A field blend that contravenes contraindicated convention with aromas of black cherry and licorice flavorful cassis blackberries and silky tannins. A wine (hardly) contraindicated for gastronomy it is above all contrapuntal. – bonny doon vineyard