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April 01, 2011
This Time He's Gone Too Far: An E-gris-gious Error
Santa Cruz, CA — You all know Randall. He always has one crazy idea or another—freezing grapes for "nicewine," working with funky Italian grape varieties that end in vowels, staging funerals for corks, putting all of his wines in screwcaps—that sort of thing. We've heard he's trying to simplify matters chez Doon, to focus on fewer things and to try to do them all very, very well.
But this time he really has gone too far. He has just today proclaimed that henceforth there will be but one permitted color for all wines released from Bonny Doon—a very pale salmon pink. This new policy is inaugurated with today's release of the 2010 Vin Gris de Cigare, an elegant dry pink wine.*
He has suggested that all other Bonny Doon releases currently in the marketplace be utilized for the production of sangria.
* Vin Gris is made from the direct pressing of red grapes, unlike rosé, which is typically made from the saigner, or bleeding, of tanks that have undergone a greater or lesser degree of skin-contact.
