![]() Born from mischief, Cooper and Thief Wine celebrates doing things differently. For a devilishly good taste, keep this red wine blend stored at room temperature, and chill it before serving. The bourbon barrel aging gives this wine soft tannins that deliver a full-bodied and lingering finish in each sip. Bring this red blend along on your next picnic and enjoy it on its own, or stack this rich, bold taste up against lamb or poultry. This dark red wine garners its unique taste thanks to varietals found all across California's prime winegrowing regions. Crafted by Cellarmaster Jeff Kasavan, each taste of this California red wine gives way to aromatic hints of fruit and toasty vanilla. Merlot, syrah, zinfandel, petite sirah and cabernet sauvignon collide in one bourbon barrel to create this dark and jammy wine, which features true bourbon flavor. Its a complex blend thats as smooth as they come. Not so bold as to dominate anything you may be enjoying this wine with, it is full-bodied with a soft finish. Please enjoy our wines responsibly.2022 Cooper & Thief Cellarmasters, Acampo, CAĬooper and Thief Bourbon Barrel Aged Red Wine Blend is aged in bourbon whiskey barrels for three months, giving it a velvety mouthfeel with subtle heat. A bourbon barrel-aged wine, its jammy with quiet notes of bourbon. ![]() Poglia's knives include some eye-popping designs (and now I'm in love with that oyster knife) but the rough around the edges approach seems to fit well with this wine.Cooper and Thief Bourbon Barrel Aged Red Wine Blend is aged in bourbon whiskey barrels for three months, giving it a velvety mouthfeel with subtle heat. Instead the after dinner drink seems a perfect combination.Ĭooper & Thief have also partnered with a NYC designer, rugged Brazilian native Max Poglia on a killer corkscrew. This is either an eschewing of tradition, or a riffing on it, right? The Cooper & Thief folks were a bit out in front of the bourbon barrel idea, and while others seem to be trying to latch on to the movement, it doesn't work, in my opinion with a normal table wine. The palate is warm, jammy and it's crazy aromatic. While the Cooper & Thief is not a fortified wine like a Port or Sherry, it sure tastes like. The wine spends just a short time in Bourbon barrels, three months, but it's enough to kick of the profile on things like vanilla and caramel, and a bit of the alcohol. The Cooper & Thief Red Blend is a concoction of a bunch of different varieties but mostly built from Merlot, Syrah and Zinfandel. I believe it's the only wine style that compliments this idea of using whisky barrels, and I stand by this belief. (I feel similarly about coffee aged in whiskey barrels.) Yet I enjoy this wine from Cooper & Thief precisely because of the style they've chosen. As a general rule, this stylistically does things to wine that frankly it should not have done to it. I love bourbon, and whiskies in general but if there is a wine trend that has seemed to have gotten a bit out of hand that's the "wine aged in whiskey barrel" phenomenon. As a rule, I think that high alcohol percentages make table wines, undrinkable, but they tend to do wonders for Port, Madeira and similarly styled wines that are crafted into viscous, after dinner In general, these wines tend to be cheaper, and from indecipherable locations within the state of California. There are a number of really high octane wines, with high alcohol by volume percentages that just leave my palate in shock. ![]() Wine is an elegant creature and I appreciate light bodied wines, that age beautifully and accentuate the flavors of a meal. In general I do not tend towards "boozy" wines.
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