#Casey Greybehl

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Where is Fancy Bred:

This is some fiercely acidic stuff. Purple-pink out to the rim, transparent and lovely, but oh man is it a biting mouthful. Gorgeous funky nose going almost-pinot in character, but pulling sharply away at the last moment. Layers of woodsy earth in bouquet, the fruit distilled down into black cherry with careful looks. Nothing prepares you for the brash entry. But here it comes: Thin and…

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Napa Grenache

After the light, beautiful little version in flint the other day, I was looking for something a little more seriouser from the Grenache king. This is my first outing with his Carneros bottling, and expectations are high. Ridiculously vegetal on the nose: a muddy briar rife with eucalyptus and chopped weedy greenery. Dark, concentrated berry lies below, a plummy sort of fruit-punch perfection with…

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Dry Mount

After the stellar focus and adherence to quality and typicity this label has shown me over the past half-decade, this wine comes as a bit of a shock. Thin ruby purple-pink, a nose sullen and subdued, with wilted floral and chubby, squished-ant piquant flabbiness of soggy fruit. While delightfully restrained in all aspects, it manages a rubber-glove sort of un-charming vegetal akin to something…

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Dark they were and Golden-eyed

Crammed my nose into it and was like, Is this the carbonic one?? *checks label* BAM! And headed into two years, these things really gain complexity. Light ruby with considerable tartrates. Buttery Bojo-ish texture splashes around plump berry in delicious savory form, adding to its seriousness. Sharp and Grenache-powerful on the tongue, a lavish wash of stark acid bursting the ripe fruit into…

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Pez Dispenser

A foamy, creamy beauty, hardly feeling like a red sparkler at all. Loyal followers know I am not particularly keen on red bubbles: still traumatized from the rise of sparkling Shiraz in the 90’s; I have never quite wrapped my tongue around Lambrusco; and various Cab-Franc pet-nat offerings from natty-hipster in the past few years have left their mark. But this doesn’t feel like that. Light rose…

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Where is Fancy bred?

You see *carbonic* on a label and you get the impression it’s gonna be light and frilly, maybe even fizzy, and then the contents blow all that away. Dark and concentrated in the nose, raspberry, black cherry, even tobacco and heavy earth. A sure-fire way of shitting down the *carbonic destroys fruit* crowd. A light 7-Up-ish upswell brings a nice minerality with it–one part steel and rust, one…