Ghostnote Wines Gist Ranch Graves Coast Blanc 2024 26REASONABLE Heritage tequila at high proof

Heritage tequila at high proof

a red-wine guy from Burgenland

and this Pineau d'Aunis comes from old vines (some over a century) farmed by Valerie Forgues

A dual-origin 10-year rye from two cult producers

5 hectares of vines planted in the 1930s

Ghostnote Wines Gist Ranch Graves Coast Blanc 2024 26REASONABLE Heritage tequila at high proofThe name nods to Bordeaux's Graves the historic home of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon by way of California's coast. Ghostnote sources from Gist Ranch, a high elevation organic vineyard above 2,000 feet in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 17 miles from the Pacific. The grapes get Brad Friedman's signature low intervention treatment, and the resulting white blend reads classical and saline rather than tropical: think a Pessac Leognan inflected California white