Light Red 2020

We love "the new California wine" because these winemakers adopt the very best practices from the Old World—practices developed from hundreds of years of tradition—and then throw away the rulebook to make batshit-crazy deliciousness. Case in point: Vinca Minor's unholy trinity of "Carignan, Petite Sirah, Gewürztraminer." Here, as in all their wines, Vinca Minor is organically dry-farming old vines—not only an ecologically responsible approach given California's water crisis, but also a tried-and-true technique for maximizing flavor and concentration in the wine. That being said, how the hell do you even think to combine these three varieties? The Old World's sacrilege is the New World's genius. And the juice is pure California attitude: bright, cheerful, easygoing, with good acid and great fruit (cranberries, Morello cherry, pink grapefruit). God bless America.