Novy Family Wines Four Mile Creek Rare Red Blend

This is the second release of last year’s incredibly successful red table wine. This wine requires a little explanation. Dianna and i worked in retail for many years and we saw the large number of very good reasonably priced wines of character coming from the south of france. It was frustrating that very few similarly priced character filled wines were being produced in california. Of course over the last few years an entire category of lower-priced negotiant wines have emerged. These are wines that are serviceable but lack the expression of flavors that emerge from boutique wineries. Accordingly over the last couple of vintages we have experimented with producing this type of richly flavored red table wine and have come up with a rather unique method of doing so. We begin by bleeding off any of our novy and siduri’s single-vineyard wines that we feel need additional concentration. Usually this bleed off is performed shortly after crushing and a rose wine is produced. We wait a