Here's a shot of the label I designed today for the 2008 Sangiovese rosé made from the vines in our backyard. The wine turned out a very pretty salmon red this year. I think it looks good with the gold capsule. The wine is delicious. Wish you could taste it....
Only 1.25 cases made--very limited availability, very expensive. If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Actually, it's so exclusive, it's not for sale. If you want a taste, you have to come visit.
We call our "winery" (the garage) "Clos du Tal," a play on "Clos du Val," but more than just a pun. A "clos" is a walled vineyard of the sort common in the northern Côte d'Or (the heart of Burgundy--at least from a winemaking perspective). Many of these walled vineyards in Burgundy have been owned by monasteries, and I believe the word "cloister" is related. "Tal," of course, is short for Talcroft. So, the name means "walled vineyard of the Talcrofts." As our vines happen to be planted behind a stone wall, that is quite fitting. We call the vineyard (all 32 vines) "Stone's Throw Vineyard," first, because it's a stone's throw from the house, and, second, because there are an awful lot of stones around here. We live on top of an abandoned basalt quarry. Next time you see Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, pay attention to the Santa Rosa train station. It was built with rock from what is today our front yard (the station building still stands in the old part of downtown Santa Rosa). According to Press Democrat articles, much of San Francisco was paved at one time with cobblestones made from this rock. The Hotel La Rose across the street from the old station building and a number of other notable structures in Santa Rosa were also built from the basalt quarried on this hill.
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