#jolielaidewines

[claire-desjardins-art]

In case you missed it (was in my stories this past week), I wanted to share an exciting piece of news with you: I have the honour of having my artworks printed onto the labels for the Spring release of @jolielaidewines!!!🍷Having my art on wine labels has always been a vanity dream of mine, so I’m really stoked about it... I can’t wait to see them in person (and to sample what’s inside of them)! 🥂Jolie Laide prides itself by offering often lesser known varieties of wine, such as Melon de Bourgogne, Trousseau Gris, Gamay Noir, Trousseau Noir, and others. In the meantime, if you’d like to try them out for yourselves, please head over to their website, jolielaidewines.com, to check them out... Eeeeee!! 🧡❤️💜💙 #ClaireDesjardins #JolieLaide #JolieLaideWines #WineLabels #DesignerWineLabel #WineLabel #Wine #WineBottle #WineLabelArt #ArtAndWine #WineAndArt https://www.instagram.com/p/CMKLa_dJEDh/?igshid=g77hzk3cpoic

[dandelionwineshop]

🚨 Sonoma County is currently in a state of emergency after the Russian River rose 34 feet over two days, reaching 12 feet above flood stage. The damage to surrounding communities is extensive and our friends @paxwines facility also housing @jolielaidewines @jaimeemotleywines @raenwinery @marthastoumen in Sebastopol are among those affected. In addition to losses from flood damage, all activities at the winery and tasting room have been put on indefinite hold, we don't have to tell you what that means for their businesses. Let’s help them out! We will be donating 20% of all Sonoma wine sales this month to the @gofundme that @patrickwine set up to help his friends. You drink, we donate. You can also donate directly by finding the link in @patrickwine bio. 🙏🍷❤️ #drinkwine #youdrinkwedonate #sonoma #sonomacounty #russianriver #russianrivervalley #floodhelp #friendsinneed #savethewine #wineislove #winoforever (at Dandelion Wine) https://www.instagram.com/dandelionwineshop/p/BuoYjLKHdLb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pdaue45axcru

[wine-porn]

Flourescent pink down to a raw ruby core. Floral blood oozing from bruised briar and that moment the sun shines on wet asphalt--alley gutters temporarily scrubbed, reducing detritus once cheery to heady cinnamon and a musk perfume melange. In the mouth, calm and bright, mild fruit: soprano-taut and invigoratingly happy, turning intense pie-cherry and rose-hips, grating concentration you have no idea where it came from but it screams through, plastering everything in reach with spicy fruit injections and searing the roof with tannin. There's a lot of people who won't get this wine. On one hand it is light and succulent, on another it is brash and unsettling, turn the corner and it is lashing and vehement. The Rhone travels a long way on this one, but the purity and cleanliness is all California. It's pretty nice stuff. 2016 @JOLIELAIDEWINES #Syrah North Coast 12-8 https://www.instagram.com/p/BsuIY01h9UB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dj9xbjtv7w0

[farmertucker]

@jolielaidewines #trousseaugris kind of afternoon (at Healdsburg, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BygiLv_BWwk/?igshid=4u7wh3uktrpm

[socialsf]

#sundaybrunch @nopasf #knowyourwinemaker @theferraribros 2018 #roséofpinotnoir @jolielaidewines 2017 #melondebourgogne #rodnickfarm #chalone #thecompanyyoukeep #winelife #drinkupclown #sundaystyle (at Nopasf) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv_Pjq_HV76/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ut2mwoasfars

[sonomaoak]

Repost @jolielaidewines Amazing evening on the (literal) top of Sonoma Mountain. Organic Pinot Noir grown in the rocky and rugged volcanic hilltop of the Sophie James estate and @sophieemmagray and @jamesforrestgray are just crazy enough to pull it off. Very exciting and more to come.... 🧗🏻‍♂️🚵🏻‍♀️🌋🚜 @sophiejameswine #remindsmeoftheranch (at Willow Glen, San Jose, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByArQm8FWN-/?igshid=ii3ajk0aq6xn

[ajojedapons]

@jolielaidewines #Halcon @Sandrone @nadiacurto #LaFoia #PoggioAntico 2012 and 2007 #Riserva @andreacalek #Babiole #sommlife #keeponpouring @thelambsclub (at The Lambs Club)

[wine-porn]

ABOUT LAST NIGHT: Ridiculous dinner with @mastroscheidt and our ever-patient lovelies at @lidoatdolphinbay under the watchful eye of @toddbrownhospitality (@purerobina had the night off). Okay so TBH the wine events actually started a little bit earlier at @puffersofpismo up the street with @saintkwines beautiful mourve rosé “CHICKS DIG EL CAMINOS!” then Charlie bumped things up a few notches with arguably one of my favorite Pinot Noirs on the Central Coast,

the Santa Catalina Island reserve from @rusackvineyards which if you are unfamiliar is a crazy old vineyard on the island which they have brought back to healthy production and they fly the grapes over on a puddle jumper to the Santa Ynez Valley to crush. There is also a Zin, and it is an old-skool beauty. Only 13.5 without any slutty fruit but peppery undertones reminiscent of Dry Creek Valley or St. Helena.

Then we moved the tasting from Pismo to Shell Beach and Lido. I grabbed a 2004 Bin 28 out of my cellar and Dave brought his unbelievable dry-farmed Lytton Springs cab. Then we turned to the restaurant’s massive list for reinforcements.

Todd wrangled a 2013 @jolielaidewines GR/SY and a 2011 @tensleywines from one of my favorite vineyards on the Central Coast, the obscure and barely AVA’d Colson Canyon, WAAAAY out in the boondocks kinda above Bien Nacido out on the fringes of SMV. Colson Cyn as most of you know is exclusive to the Tensley’s now. It was showing very very well at 8, tied for favorite of the night with Dave’s DCV cab, which pumped incredible oak, gear-lube and dark tropical into your face. The Jolie-Laide was a stew of funky produce, thick with rubber-band and tapenade. The 15YO Kalimna tasted and smelled like pancake syrup alongside everything. End of story. @ Lido at Dolphin Bay

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Friday The 13th ABOUT LAST NIGHT: Ridiculous dinner with @mastroscheidt and our ever-patient lovelies at @lidoatdolphinbay under the watchful eye of @toddbrownhospitality (@purerobina had the night off).

[wine-porn]

ABOUT LAST NIGHT: Ridiculous dinner with @mastroscheidt and our ever-patient lovelies at @lidoatdolphinbay under the watchful eye of @toddbrownhospitality (@purerobina had the night off). Okay so TBH the wine events actually started a little bit earlier at @puffersofpismo up the street with @saintkwines beautiful mourve rosé "CHICKS DIG EL CAMINOS!" then Charlie bumped things up a few notches with arguably one of my favorite Pinot Noirs on the Central Coast, the Santa Catalina Island reserve from @rusackvineyards which if you are unfamiliar is a crazy old vineyard on the island which they have brought back to healthy production and they fly the grapes over on a puddle jumper to the Santa Ynez Valley to crush. There is also a Zin, and it is an old-skool beauty. Only 13.5 without any slutty fruit but peppery undertones reminiscent of Dry Creek Valley or St. Helena. Then we moved the tasting from Pismo to Shell Beach and Lido. I grabbed a 2004 Bin 28 out of my cellar and Dave brought his unbelievable dry-farmed Lytton Springs cab. Then we turned to the restaurant's massive list for reinforcements. Todd wrangled a 2013 @jolielaidewines GR/SY and a 2011 @tensleywines from one of my favorite vineyards on the Central Coast, the obscure and barely AVA'd Colson Canyon, WAAAAY out in the boondocks kinda above Bien Nacido out on the fringes of SMV. Colson Cyn as most of you know is exclusive to the Tensley's now. It was showing very very well at 8, tied for favorite of the night with Dave's DCV cab, which pumped incredible oak, gear-lube and dark tropical into your face. The Jolie-Laide was a stew of funky produce, thick with rubber-band and tapenade. The 15YO Kalimna tasted and smelled like pancake syrup alongside everything. End of story. (at Lido at Dolphin Bay) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Zwc7fHThm/?igshid=11td643kk1j7g

[wine-porn]

An electric shade of rosy amber. Dry and chalky in the nose, peaty and weedy, foggy haze cooling and subduing all sounds. Sparkling brilliance in the mouth, everything coming to unfettered life, blossoms and sprouts and dew drops glistening old barrels and steel hoops and THE MOST delicate, fragile, and angelic fruit in the sunlight moment. 2017 @jolielaidewines #trousseau gris #russianrivervalley #sonomawine 12-8 #libbeyglass (at Russian River Valley AVA) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzmmU3jnrb4/?igshid=oypwud5k79l6

[wine-porn]

So crazy bright and fresh it almost gives the impression of amateurish at first, just for a split second--then blows off revealing some of the most pristine Syrah fruit I've had. Fruit raw and alive, buried under raspy chalky structure omnipresent over the thin delicacy of the pie cherry and strawberry rhubarb. Black tea tannins churn on and on, cutting everything short in a wine-professional's version of the variety. There is no minutes-long dessert-rich finish, there is no vanilla, chocolate oak. There is no blackberry, currant, Dr. Pepper nuances. Basically any descriptor whatever bubble-gum blogger that popped up this week is using is not possible to connect to this wine. This is not tourist wine or #drunkmommy wine by any stretch of the imagination. This is shrill, brilliant, workhorse stuff, able to hold its own with the best of Cote Rotie, St. Joseph and young Hemitage, flushing spit and sweat and blood right out into the open with abrasive tannin and acid, bullet-proof fruit singing super-model thin stanzas to an after-party you might just be cool enough to be invited to. Shockingly balanced, ridiculously bright, a contender wherever REAL Syrah is discussed. 2016 @jolielaidewines #syrah #YorkvilleHighlands #MendocinoCounty 12-8 https://www.gofundme.com/pax-wines-flood-recovery (at Sebastapol) https://www.instagram.com/p/BukqLMhA4Dk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kcah5mez4w59

[ajojedapons]

@jolielaidewines #HALCON #Syrah @thelambsclub tonight @lafornace #brunellodimontalcino @centralcoastgroupproject #Fauve @poggioantico @dunhamcellars #sommlife #keeponpouring (at The Lambs Club)