Bonny Doon A Proper Claret

Some cautionary words: bonny doon vineyard is as we all know or should know a strictly cabernet-free zone at least it has been for the last twenty-nine years. (this commonsense dictum is as easy as a b c.) the last claret nominally produced at bonny doon vineyard was in 1985 from grapes grown at our late estate in the eponymous hamlet of bonny doon. It was a blend of approximately equal parts of cabernet sauvignon cab. Franc merlot and malbec and against all expectation was actually pretty damn good. Randall grahm owner and winemaker has expressed amused disdain occasionally bordering on amused disdain for this popular grape variety. He has been heard to say at least once i will not kiss the lips bordelais cepages will not pass these lips. We are not really at liberty to say how bonny doon vineyard has come to be entrusted with the distribution of a wine made from such improbably alien grape varieties but suffice to say that the deal was doon grudgingly and harumph