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The Perfect Red
We love day drinking glouglou as much as anyone else (or maybe slightly more) but sometimes you need to sit down and drink a bottle of wine with a proper dinner at home on any given weeknight. Something fresh and crunchy, but with a bit more structure. Nothing too fancy mind you: think hanger steak and green salad rather than dry-aged beef and lobster tails.
The original Perfect Red came from a happy accident in one of Michel Théron’s (Clos du Jaugueyron) vineyards and led to a Clairet-style bottling dubbed ‘Le Rouge Parfait’ in 2018. With this kind of Tuesday night drinking in mind, we decided to keep bottling Perfect Reds as we came across them, first in Chris Brockway’s Berkeley cellar and later in the Douro at Mateus Nicolau De Almeida’s.
As with all of our wines, rest assured that these are all made with organic fruit, fermented with native yeasts, and have little to no added sulfur, just the way we like them. So, here's to natty wine not always being iridescent, steak wine not always being expensive, and to always having The Perfect Red for any occasion.
The original Perfect Red came from a happy accident in one of Michel Théron’s (Clos du Jaugueyron) vineyards and led to a Clairet-style bottling dubbed ‘Le Rouge Parfait’ in 2018. With this kind of Tuesday night drinking in mind, we decided to keep bottling Perfect Reds as we came across them, first in Chris Brockway’s Berkeley cellar and later in the Douro at Mateus Nicolau De Almeida’s.
As with all of our wines, rest assured that these are all made with organic fruit, fermented with native yeasts, and have little to no added sulfur, just the way we like them. So, here's to natty wine not always being iridescent, steak wine not always being expensive, and to always having The Perfect Red for any occasion.
WINE
Producer: Broc Cellars
Varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc
Location: California
This vintage of The Perfect Red is very special as it's the first to use estate fruit
from Fox Hill Vineyard to blend with Wirth Vineyard’s Cabernet Sauvignon coming from Solano
County’s Green Valley in Northern California. This wine, like previous vintages, is a fresher style
than other California Cab representations. We harvest the grapes at lower brix compared to
neighboring Napa Valley to help highlight the style we prefer and keep it fairly simple in the
cellar. For this vintage we wanted to add more fruit and depth to the wine with the addition of
Fox Hill fruit. 2024 was one of the best vintages on record for our vineyard and with the
Cabernet coming in a little bit more on the vegetal side than expected, we wanted to boost
some of the fruit which we knew would ultimately make for a better wine. We think this may be
the best vintage of Perfect Red that we've made so far.
The wine saw a combination of mostly destemmed fruit with the remaining grapes left whole
cluster. We fermented with native yeast and pressed early and very gently to lessen the amount
of tannins in the wine. Aged in a combination of concrete and neutral oak barrique for 9
months.
TASTING NOTES: Black Cherry, Blood Orange, Pomegranate, Citrus Peel
The Perfect Red is “something that’s easy to drink but has enough complexity to
elevate the wine...is affordable and ‘perfect’ for what it is and how it’s priced.’ – Chris Brockway
VARIETIES: 75% Cabernet Sauvignon | 25% Fox Hill Blend - Montepulciano, Sangiovese + Primitivo
LOCATION: California
FARMING PRACTICES: Organically grown grapes
ALCOHOL: 13% | Free SO2: <5 ppm | Total SO2: 10 ppm
TOTAL PRODUCTION: 324 cases
Varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc
Location: California
This vintage of The Perfect Red is very special as it's the first to use estate fruit
from Fox Hill Vineyard to blend with Wirth Vineyard’s Cabernet Sauvignon coming from Solano
County’s Green Valley in Northern California. This wine, like previous vintages, is a fresher style
than other California Cab representations. We harvest the grapes at lower brix compared to
neighboring Napa Valley to help highlight the style we prefer and keep it fairly simple in the
cellar. For this vintage we wanted to add more fruit and depth to the wine with the addition of
Fox Hill fruit. 2024 was one of the best vintages on record for our vineyard and with the
Cabernet coming in a little bit more on the vegetal side than expected, we wanted to boost
some of the fruit which we knew would ultimately make for a better wine. We think this may be
the best vintage of Perfect Red that we've made so far.
The wine saw a combination of mostly destemmed fruit with the remaining grapes left whole
cluster. We fermented with native yeast and pressed early and very gently to lessen the amount
of tannins in the wine. Aged in a combination of concrete and neutral oak barrique for 9
months.
TASTING NOTES: Black Cherry, Blood Orange, Pomegranate, Citrus Peel
The Perfect Red is “something that’s easy to drink but has enough complexity to
elevate the wine...is affordable and ‘perfect’ for what it is and how it’s priced.’ – Chris Brockway
VARIETIES: 75% Cabernet Sauvignon | 25% Fox Hill Blend - Montepulciano, Sangiovese + Primitivo
LOCATION: California
FARMING PRACTICES: Organically grown grapes
ALCOHOL: 13% | Free SO2: <5 ppm | Total SO2: 10 ppm
TOTAL PRODUCTION: 324 cases