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Welcome to our Tasting
Room, please read below to find out more about our
family wines.
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1992 Vintage Port
Our '92 vintage port is starting to mature nicely. The '92 vintage was our first vintage of port. It is made of 100% Tinta Madeira which is a Portuguese grape varietal that does very well in the warmer climates of southern California. Our '92 Tinta Madeira grapes were from a single vineyard in Madera County, CA. The 1992 Vintage Port is today (12/97) tasting very well. It will probably age well into the next 5-10 years. At GFW&C we make port that can have the complexity & depth of our Portuguese counterparts, but made to be able to drink now, while your Fonsecas Dows & Taylor Fladgates are resting in your cellars for the 20-30 year maturing time!
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93 Vintage Port
Our 1993 Vintage Port can just start to taste its soft vanillas and caramelized fruit is just starting to get some maturity in its young age. You flavors really marrying flavors, balanced aromas and a long smooth aftertaste. The '93 into a medium bodied port with a nice complexity of vintage was our second available. It's, like the '92 Vintage, 100% Tinta Madeira grapes declared vintage and is the current vintage we have from a single vineyard in Ports, it spent 2 years in oak barrels before it was bottled in late Madera County, CA. Like all of our Vintage December '95. The '93 Vintage should age very well for the next 7 years.
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1997 Vintage Port
Our 1997 Vintage Port is, in my opinion, the best Vintage to date at Glunz Family Winery. The '97 vintage is the first port that we have used a large portion of two different grapes, Tinta Madeira, the grape that we have always used in all of our past Vintages, and
Touriga, a grape that we have used in our Glögg and as a light blending grape in the past, but never in as much as in this '97 Vintage. The resulting wine is awesome. The fruit flavor in the wine before bottling was so full and well balanced, that we decided to only lightly filter the wine, so as to not lose too much of that great fruit. In doing this, the wine will act much like the Vintage Ports of Portugal, and drop a light sediment, particles of color and tannin that will naturally drop out of the wine. The wine can be decanted or filtered through a coffee filter to remove the sediment, or just leave it in and it will only make a few glasses a bit cloudy. This port will age beautifully for the next 10 - 15 years with no problem (3/00).
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Angelica
What is Angelica you ask? Angelica is a wine that is made with the Mission grape & is fortified with high-proof grape brandy. The Mission grape was the first grape ever planted in California by the Spanish missionaries, who came up from Central America and planted it to make their traditional sacramental wine. The Mission grape is a large white/brown grape that we fortify and then age in small oak barrels for up to 30 years or more, to produce a dark carmel colored dessert wine that is very rich, complex and very smooth! This is one wine that if you like it you will judge all others by it. The fruit and oak marry in it's depth and nutty characteristic. Our Angelica is not yet released due to our label not yet having BATF approval. As soon as it does, we will release only about 116 cases per year so as to build a solera that will allow us to have this wine available for a long time.
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de la Costa Sangria
A member of our "Fun Wines" series. These are wines we make to not take too seriously but to be enjoyed with the season. Sangria is our red wine that is flavored with all natural fruit flavors and spices. It is packed with citrus flavor a nice tang from the red wine and a clean finish with a touch of cinnamon. It is available in late Spring through Summer and is bottled in our 1 Liter Swing Top bottles or cork finished 750 ml. bottles.
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May Wine
A member of our "Fun Wines" series. These are wines we make to not take too seriously but to be enjoyed with the season. May wine is a traditional Spring time wine that originated in Germany when the Waltmeister (Woodruff as we call it in America) is harvested at the time of flowering in May. The Waltmeister would be dried and then added to a semi-sweet Rhine wine. We follow these traditions with a lightly sweet white wine we add the Woodruff, blend and bottle. This wine is usually available at GFW&C during early Spring through most of the Summer. It goes beautifully with a wedge of strawberry or a raspberry
and/or a touch of champagne.
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Raspberry Wine
The newest wine on our list, this wine is made of our Estate grown Raspberries. The intense raspberry flavor of this wine is
made possible by the ability of being able to regulate exactly the peak of ripeness to pick the berries at their sweetest and most flavorful point. They are then frozen, to break up the individual cells of the berry. Then they are fermented, and fortified with 189 proof grape brandy to stop the yeast fermentation. The ending wine is intensely Raspberry, with a nice long finish sweet fruit finish. It is best served cold and goes very well with almost any dessert. It is incredible with, or on top of, cheese cake, flourless chocolate cake, and vanilla ice cream. There is a 6 (six) bottle limit per person on the wine due to limited production. It is packaged in 375ml bottles.
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