He is known as Grandfather Miroslav and he likes to busk at the Novi Sad city centre wearing his traditional attire. He has spent his life doing forest and agricultural work, but now he earns a living through his music. He is a self-taught musician and can play the fiddle, flute and harmonica. On this day, he had a beautiful admirer and he played for her for a long time.

POV: DbD killers reaction on my new hairstyle

Author's note: I wrote this POV for myself, not gender neutral, mentions of female gender. I mention MY long purple and green hair. I also describing my own fantasies and I don't feel very positive about some of the characters. But if you want, you can use this pov and imagine yourself. I use "me/I'm" etc in it. Also please don't judge me English is not my native language

Today was a special day because Entity sent out hair dye to the survivors. There were only two colors and these were my colors, so I did not share them with others. No one began to argue with me, seeing how inspired I was. I asked my best friend dye my hair. At first they was insecure, doubting that they would do well, but seeing my compassionate look, they agreed.

So, the reaction of the killers to my new hair color:

- Ji-Woon Hak (The Trickster)

• He doesn't care. He already have a new hair color every trial

• He is too busy paying attention to Miroslav (My bestie <3)

I'm happy for them, so I don't care about his reaction.

- Bubba Sawyer (The Cannibal)

• Very excited with my new hair color

• It's unusual for him seen so bright hair

• He thinks I'm very beautiful

• Pulled my hair a couple of times to make sure it wasn't a wig

• He likes to pet them

• He makes me different hairstyles

- Michael Myers (The Shape)

• He likes it

• But he doesn't show it in any way, he is a stone

• He likes that the bright color makes me the easiest to track down

- The Ghost Face

• As well as Michael, he's glad that I can be easily tracked down

• Specially moried me so that he has a photo with my new hairstyle

- Evan MacMillan (The Trapper)

• Thinks I'm pretty

• Falls into his own traps because he thinks about how bright I am

• Carries me on his shoulder and does not want to hook me

• But still kills because it's his job

- Kazan Yamaoka (The Oni)

• Considers this unusual, since in his time this did not exist

• Compares me to Yōkai and I wonder if I should be offended or if this is a compliment?

• Strokes my hair

• Poetically says that I look like a flower

• Glad for such an update, because he can always see me ^^

• From the outside it may seem that he is an evil warrior who has nothing on his mind except rage and revenge, but in fact he has a subtle soul and he knows how to compliment.

- Freddy Krueger (The Nightmare)

• He likes it

• Thinks it's pretty teenage stuff, but he often acts like a teenager himself, so It's to his taste

• One of his favorite colors is green, so that's another reason why he likes it, but there is one problem

• Why not green/red? xd

• Chase me everywhere to say his terrible grandfather jokes and flirtations

• Wants to kiss me and then mori, how cute ❣️

- Anna (The Huntress)

• Doesn't know how she feels

• On the one hand she loves natural beauty

• But I'm so bright and it's also beautiful

• Thinks i look like a doll

• Calls me Malvina even though I don't have blue hair

- Jeffrey Hawk (The Clown)

• Said that I look like a clown

• I was offended and said that he looked like sh*t

• He said it was actually a compliment.

• I'm.. I feel sick

• He likes this color combination

- Herman Carter (The Doctor)

• At first he thought that I grew natural hair of this color

• Wants to open up my skull to find out what made me dye my hair

• In general, he doesn’t care what my hair color is and why, he just wants to open the skull

- Amanda Young (The Pig)

• Thinks that I'm cute and that it suits me

• Lesbian panic

• Stalking me

• Wants to bury her muzzle in my hair and sit like that, inhaling the pleasant smell of hair-dye

- Lisa Sherwood (The Hag)

• Also wants to dye her hair like this

• Teaming

- Rin Yamaoka (The Spirit)

• Thinks it's cool

• Jealous

• Angry and mori me because of envy

- Carmina Mora (The Artist)

• Thinks I'm a work of art

• Lesbian panic 2.0

• Wants to draw me

• Thinks that these colors go well together and suits me very well

Two Kings: Assassination Attempt(Another One)

Taglist: @howdywrites @notwritinganyflufftoday @ashen-crest @a-berry-existential-crisis

TW/CW: Blood, kissing

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“I’ll sleep in the study tonight,” Pasquier muttered, leaving before Miro would have a chance to stop him. He lingered by the door a moment after it had fallen shut behind him. He squeezed his eyes shut, debating if he should go back inside. A floorboard creaked on the other side. Pasquier retreated for the Twilight Library, letting his steps land heavily as he made his way down the hall.

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Pasquier jolted upright from the sofa, gasping and wheezing at the pulse of something that had passed through his heart. He looked around, clutching the front of his shirt. The grandfather clock ticked on. A calm night hung outside the open window.

Open window…

“Miro!” Pasquier scrambled from the sofa and bolted for the door.

An arm connected with his throat. He hit the ground coughing as a man in a long black coat loomed over him, face hidden behind a beaked masquerade mask. “It’s cute, the way you charge to your king’s defense.” The man pressed his boot onto Pasquier’s chest, pinning him to the floor. “But you’re the target today. We can’t have Miroslav’s court magician in our way,” he purred, a grin in his voice. “Don’t worry. You will see your king soon.”

“He isn’t my king,” Pasquier grunted, summoning ice to his fingertips. “He’s my husband.” Pasquier gripped the man’s leg, sinking claws of ice into his flesh. The assassin screamed as he tore his leg away. Pasquier shot to his feet and moved to dodge around the assassin.

He stopped. A sound like dripping water drew his attention down. Black blood, not red, ran from the tip of a dagger protruding from his chest. A blue haze of energy followed each droplet. The corner of his mouth trembled as he grinned.

A second assassin pulled the dagger from his back and followed the first from the library as Pasquier fell to his knees. The black blood sprayed now— his magic leaking from him along with his immortality. He laughed as he slumped to the ground and rolled onto his back, focusing on his breathing and straining his ears.

The clamor of guards’ boots up the stairs and overhead. Shouting. So much shouting. Crackling flashes. Rushing fire. Metal clashing. One of the two assassins was a magician. Or Miro had summoned one of his dragons. A roar. Pasquier closed his eyes and sighed, relieved. A dragon meant Miro was alive. A loud thump. Another. He opened his eyes when there was silence. The edges of his vision were getting fuzzy.

The library doors burst open. Pasquier heard Miro’s panicked voice as he dropped to his knees beside him. “Pask?” Miro scooped him against his chest, sobbing and cursing. “Pask, Pask, can you hear me?”

“I hear you,” Pasquier murmured, pressing his hand to the wound over his chest. The black blood started to run red. He groaned and let his head fall back. “Seems I can die after all…”

“Are you dying now? Are you going to be okay?” Miro asked, his voice weak and wavering. “Red means you live, right?”

“Red means I live,” Pasquier confirmed and moved away from Miro, propping himself up on shaky arms. “I’m sorry about our fight.”

Miro gave a sobbed laugh and pulled Pasquier close again, kissing the top of his head. “Fuck our foolish fight. I’m just glad you’re alive.”

Find A Song about our history where men and women grew apart

teepee - No Reason

Dream-pop duo teepee released their single ‘No Reason’ on the 13th September via Springstoff. teepee is the spellbinding collaboration between singer-acoustic guitarist Miroslav Patočka (Mason) and singer-electric guitarist Tereza Lavičková. The track was mixed by Tom O. Marsh (HVOB) and mastered by Lad Agabekov of Caduceus Mastering (Kollektiv Turmstraße). The Prague-based duo has racked up over 200 thousand Spotify streams, seen radio support from Czech radio stations Expres FM, Radio 1, Radio Wave and Slovak Radio FM, were nominated by Radio Wave ́s export initiative Czeching and have shared the stage with names like Jesse Ware, Seafret, Oh Wonder, Peter Bjorn and John or Laurel. teepee have played numerous shows in the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Slovakia and Poland including Enea Spring Break, Waves Vienna, Nouvelle Prague, Rock For People, Sázavafest, and Colors of Ostrava and are also looking forward to a performance at this year’s Reeperbahn Festival.

Mason’s grandfather was an accordion player, encouraging a young Mason to pursue his musical talent, and Tereza has always known that her endless reserve of musical creativity needed to be explored. The pair met in high school and began making waves on the Czech independent music scene in 2015. They have since released a debut album and an EP, with another album in the pipeline for the beginning of 2020.

Inspired by acts like RY X, Nick Drake, Son Lux, and Sigur Rós, teepee's sound is defined by intoxicating vocal harmonies, with Mason's gentle acoustic guitar enhanced by fragile notes from Tereza’s electric guitar. Subtle samples and synthetic embellishments provide a bed for their melancholic, confessional English lyrics - with elements of their sound drawing parallels to the likes of Daughter, Bon Iver, and Aurora.

‘No Reason’ is a successful exercise in painting pictures with music where Tereza’s angelic voice captures a serene ambience, and the glistening arrangements possess a beguiling aura. The track sends us through dreamy landscapes evoked by minimal instrumentation, with Mason providing subtle touches and a vocal harmony.

Tereza gives her insight: “No Reason’ is a very important song for me. It tells a story about our history where men and women grew apart. We created ridiculous binarities of masculinity and femininity that has been damaging our minds and souls for centuries and we claim that it's natural. We make wonderlands out of each other saying that someone is not able to be or do something because of their gender. I think that the most dangerous phenomenon in the world is when one group calls the other group “The Others” because most of the time it leads to injustice. That is why the message of the song is that we should leave behind the dichotomies. There is no reason to keep them because all genders are splendid.” (press relese)

Recent books, fiction -

- Karina Sumner-Smith, Radiant - Action story about a young woman who can see ghosts in an urban secondary-world fantasy where magic is the mechanism of capitalism. The world-building here was interesting, and the protagonists very likeable, but the plot felt oddly paced and its beats too predictable for me to really get into it. There’s also something unsettling about the way that, even though the premise is so explicitly anti-capitalist, it ultimately can’t help but reify the specialness of marketable attributes/skills in the end? I will likely read the sequels, but I’m not totally hooked.

- Elif Bautman, The Idiot - first-generation Turkish-American girl goes to Harvard in the ‘90′s, studies linguistics, and has personal and existential crises about the meaning of language, intimacy, and Balkan/eastern European culture. This a sharply written book, with a wonderful first-person pov voice, at once sardonic and genuine; it has the peculiarly enrapturing quality of most good college novels. At the same time, I felt like it wasn’t for me, with the way its ironic remove worked, with the ultimate assertion of existential futility that would frustrate me from a classmate or friend. I enjoyed it, and it frustrated me.

- Angélica Gorodischer, Trafalgar - a merchant in a subtly fantastical Argentina drinks coffee with friends and tells them about the nations he’s visited in a set of delicate and interlinking stories. Comparisons to Calvino’s Invisible Cities are obvious and deserved, though Calvino’s book is more philosophical and airborne, while Gorodischer’s remains grounded in small-scale detail. Fun, but not as satisfying or astonishing as Gorodischer’s most ambitious Kalpa Imperial.

- Elliot Wake (published under former name Leah Reader), Black Iris - a teenage girl, our floridly unreliable narrator, plays a long-game of sadistic revenge against everyone involved with the brutal homophobia she endured in high school. I don’t know what to make of this. It’s extremely engrossing (and not only because of the intense and frequent sex scenes), and the double-crossing structure of the writing, which mirrors of the structure of the protagonist , Laney’s, manipulation, is fun to unravel. @juushika compared it in her review to Dangerous Liaisons, which feels unexpectedly appropriate - and yet the differences from Dangerous Liaisons are as illuminating as the similarities, and they leave me feeling somewhat alienated from Black Iris in a way that I am not from the earlier work. As a reader, from my own subjective stance, I can’t countenance and accept Laney’s relationship to violence in the way that the novel’s denouement seems to require. I really can’t accept the novel’s treatment of direct sexual violence as a cliche to be invoked and then cast aside. I don’t know. It got under my skin; there was a lot in it I related to, and maybe that resonance is part of the discomfort. I will be thinking about it.

- Shusaku Endo, Silence - weird, part-epistolary historical novel about the persecution of Christians in Japan in the 17th century. A lot was fascinating in this, but it didn’t hold together for me. I got a little distracted imagining it as a Kobayashi film, as which it would be very good

- Miroslav Penkov, Stork Mountain - young man returns to his grandfather’s village in Bulgaria to confront his grandfather’s past and a tangled web of organized and folk religious traditions in the community which are erupting into conflict. This was a really interesting premise and plot, but confused and inconsistent execution. It didn’t work, though I really wanted it to.

- Kij Johnson, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe - feminist retelling of Lovecraft, featured a middle-aged academic heroine going on a journey. This felt frail and insubstantial to me; sometimes clever as retelling, but sometimes too enraptured with its own cleverness. The world-building around divinity was shallow. I think it’s a novella that needs to really charm its reader to work, and I can see easily how it might, but it didn’t win me over. Maybe if it was a full novel. Maybe if it felt like it had more real conflict, and character interaction. I don’t know.

- China Mieville, This Census-Taker - Young boy is raised in isolation by a sinister father who does nebulous magical things, eventually leaves. I didn’t quite get the point? This wanted to be a trauma narrative, but got caught up in its own atmosphere and self-conscious mystery, and didn’t get there. If Silence could be a Kobayashi film, than this could be one by Bela Tarr. And that isn’t really a compliment.

- Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound - Gothic-ish YA doing a loose secondary-world fusion of Little Red Riding Hood and The Armless Maiden. And vampires. But not?

[Digression - So what’s up with these fantasy worlds that are basically about vampires but try to pretend they’re not vampires? I don’t always mind it (ex. Jemisin’s Dreamblood Duology), but it’s distracting. It’s okay to write about vampires! And I actually thought Hodge’s vampire variation here was interesting (a lot of emphasis on the Mina Harker-esque stage of being caught in between the human and undead states, knowing you will eventually succumb all the way but living in between), but I would have been so much more comfortable with the novel if it owned the fact that it was about vampires and then went from there.]

Anyway. Like Hodge’s Cruel Beauty, I felt that this one had an overstuffed and largely predictable plot, and the emotional beats of the romances and protagonist development were a little too indebted to the conventions and expectations of YA, but it was largely enjoyable. Could have been a lot better with some relatively minor changes - if it had gone darker, been more daring with its characters choices, taken more time to linger in the emotionally uncomfortable moments and sites of character decision. Wouldn’t recommend it, but don’t regret reading it.

- Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel - a scattered group of individuals all differently trying to their path in Weimar-era Berlin all come together in a high-class hotel. This is the basis of the now much-better known Garbo film, and it’s hard for the novel not to suffer by comparison - Baum’s Grushinskaya feels far pettier and less sympathetic when not luminously embodied by Garbo. But Baum’s novel isn’t trying to do quite the same thing - it’s more ironic, less warm, more of a satire. It’s still very charming, and deftly constructed.

8 Things You Should Know About Weingut Egon Müller

If Riesling is Germany’s great gift to the wine world, then Weingut Egon Müller is Tiffany’s.

Founded in 1797 in the Saar district of the Mosel region, Egon Müller produces some of the world’s finest Rieslings, with aging potentials that are easier measured in decades than years, and prices that rival any of the world’s most prestigious wineries.

From venerable vineyards to the world’s most expensive white wines, here are eight more things you should know about Weingut Egon Müller.

Egon Müller ranks among the world’s most prestigious winemaking families.

Established in 1993, the Primum Familiae Vini, or “First Families of Wine,” is a 12-strong group of the world’s most prestigious winemaking families. Weingut Egon Müller is the only German member of the group, which includes the likes of Vega Sicilia (Ribera del Duero), Château Mouton Rothschild (Bordeaux), Tenuta San Guido (Tuscany), and Maison Joseph Drouhin (Burgundy).

Inclusion in the Primum Familiae Vini is dependent on a winery being a leading producer in its region, and new members are only accepted by unanimous decision.

There are many Egon Müllers.

Egon Müller IV is the current winemaker and owner of Weingut Egon Müller. Born in August 1959, he is the fourth Egon Müller in the weingut’s (winery’s) history. He is also the sixth generation of the family to own and run the estate, after his great-great-great-grandfather Jean-Jacques Koch bought it from the French Republic at the end of the 18th century. He also has a son named, you guessed it, Egon.

Egon Müller makes several styles from a single grape.

Weingut Egon Müller produces wines using only one grape variety, Riesling. But it manages to release a number of different bottlings every year by harvesting grapes at different times, and vinifying them to a range of different sweetness levels, from off-dry kabinett to the sumptuously sweet trockenbeerenauslese. The latter style, along with the winery’s beerenauslese release, is dependent on vintage conditions being suitable for Botrytis cinerea (noble rot) to infect grapes without turning them moldy.

Its grapes are grown and tasted around the world.

Egon Müller produces Riesling in multiple countries. In Slovakia, Egon Müller IV collaborates with Miroslav Petrech to make top-class Riesling under the Château Belá label. And in the Adelaide Hills of Australia, he also works with Michael Andrewarta of East End Cellars to release a dry Riesling called Kanta.

It owns part of a prestigious German vineyard.

Egon Müller owns 21 acres of the 70-acre Scharzhofberger, one of the world’s best Riesling vineyards. It’s located in Wiltingen, on the Saar river, on a slate-rich, south-facing slope. Classified as an ortsteil (“district”), the Scharzhofberger name can be used on the labels of wines made there, much like the grand cru sites of Burgundy.

The world’s most expensive white wines come from Egon Müller.

Egon Müller’s Scharzhofberger Trockenbeerenauslese sits in third place on Wine-Searcher’s list of the World’s Top 50 most expensive wines. It’s the highest-placed white wine on the list, and its bottles boast an average price of $13,670 and a max price of $32,897.

It’s sweet, but has a wild side.

Egon Müller ferments and ages its wines in thousand-liter old oak foeders (casks), as is traditional in the Mosel region. Where possible, the winery uses only indigenous yeasts for fermentation. This almost always means that not all the sugar in the must is converted to alcohol, but the naturally high acidity of the Riesling grape balances out any residual sweetness in the final wines.

Egon Müller hasn’t seen a bad vintage in decades.

In a wide-ranging interview with Enology International’s Jordan P. Ross, Egon Müller IV described 1987 as “the last bad year” his winery experienced. Despite this, he said that the ancient vines and slate-rich soils of the Scharzhofberger vineyard still provided “very flavorful wines” that year.

The article 8 Things You Should Know About Weingut Egon Müller appeared first on VinePair.

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8 Things You Should Know About Weingut Egon Müller

If Riesling is Germany’s great gift to the wine world, then Weingut Egon Müller is Tiffany’s.

Founded in 1797 in the Saar district of the Mosel region, Egon Müller produces some of the world’s finest Rieslings, with aging potentials that are easier measured in decades than years, and prices that rival any of the world’s most prestigious wineries.

From venerable vineyards to the world’s most expensive white wines, here are eight more things you should know about Weingut Egon Müller.

Egon Müller ranks among the world’s most prestigious winemaking families.

Established in 1993, the Primum Familiae Vini, or “First Families of Wine,” is a 12-strong group of the world’s most prestigious winemaking families. Weingut Egon Müller is the only German member of the group, which includes the likes of Vega Sicilia (Ribera del Duero), Château Mouton Rothschild (Bordeaux), Tenuta San Guido (Tuscany), and Maison Joseph Drouhin (Burgundy).

Inclusion in the Primum Familiae Vini is dependent on a winery being a leading producer in its region, and new members are only accepted by unanimous decision.

There are many Egon Müllers.

Egon Müller IV is the current winemaker and owner of Weingut Egon Müller. Born in August 1959, he is the fourth Egon Müller in the weingut’s (winery’s) history. He is also the sixth generation of the family to own and run the estate, after his great-great-great-grandfather Jean-Jacques Koch bought it from the French Republic at the end of the 18th century. He also has a son named, you guessed it, Egon.

Egon Müller makes several styles from a single grape.

Weingut Egon Müller produces wines using only one grape variety, Riesling. But it manages to release a number of different bottlings every year by harvesting grapes at different times, and vinifying them to a range of different sweetness levels, from off-dry kabinett to the sumptuously sweet trockenbeerenauslese. The latter style, along with the winery’s beerenauslese release, is dependent on vintage conditions being suitable for Botrytis cinerea (noble rot) to infect grapes without turning them moldy.

Its grapes are grown and tasted around the world.

Egon Müller produces Riesling in multiple countries. In Slovakia, Egon Müller IV collaborates with Miroslav Petrech to make top-class Riesling under the Château Belá label. And in the Adelaide Hills of Australia, he also works with Michael Andrewarta of East End Cellars to release a dry Riesling called Kanta.

It owns part of a prestigious German vineyard.

Egon Müller owns 21 acres of the 70-acre Scharzhofberger, one of the world’s best Riesling vineyards. It’s located in Wiltingen, on the Saar river, on a slate-rich, south-facing slope. Classified as an ortsteil (“district”), the Scharzhofberger name can be used on the labels of wines made there, much like the grand cru sites of Burgundy.

The world’s most expensive white wines come from Egon Müller.

Egon Müller’s Scharzhofberger Trockenbeerenauslese sits in third place on Wine-Searcher’s list of the World’s Top 50 most expensive wines. It’s the highest-placed white wine on the list, and its bottles boast an average price of $13,670 and a max price of $32,897.

It’s sweet, but has a wild side.

Egon Müller ferments and ages its wines in thousand-liter old oak foeders (casks), as is traditional in the Mosel region. Where possible, the winery uses only indigenous yeasts for fermentation. This almost always means that not all the sugar in the must is converted to alcohol, but the naturally high acidity of the Riesling grape balances out any residual sweetness in the final wines.

Egon Müller hasn’t seen a bad vintage in decades.

In a wide-ranging interview with Enology International’s Jordan P. Ross, Egon Müller IV described 1987 as “the last bad year” his winery experienced. Despite this, he said that the ancient vines and slate-rich soils of the Scharzhofberger vineyard still provided “very flavorful wines” that year.

The article 8 Things You Should Know About Weingut Egon Müller appeared first on VinePair.

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8 Things You Should Know About Weingut Egon Müller

If Riesling is Germany’s great gift to the wine world, then Weingut Egon Müller is Tiffany’s.

Founded in 1797 in the Saar district of the Mosel region, Egon Müller produces some of the world’s finest Rieslings, with aging potentials that are easier measured in decades than years, and prices that rival any of the world’s most prestigious wineries.

From venerable vineyards to the world’s most expensive white wines, here are eight more things you should know about Weingut Egon Müller.

Egon Müller ranks among the world’s most prestigious winemaking families.

Established in 1993, the Primum Familiae Vini, or “First Families of Wine,” is a 12-strong group of the world’s most prestigious winemaking families. Weingut Egon Müller is the only German member of the group, which includes the likes of Vega Sicilia (Ribera del Duero), Château Mouton Rothschild (Bordeaux), Tenuta San Guido (Tuscany), and Maison Joseph Drouhin (Burgundy).

Inclusion in the Primum Familiae Vini is dependent on a winery being a leading producer in its region, and new members are only accepted by unanimous decision.

There are many Egon Müllers.

Egon Müller IV is the current winemaker and owner of Weingut Egon Müller. Born in August 1959, he is the fourth Egon Müller in the weingut’s (winery’s) history. He is also the sixth generation of the family to own and run the estate, after his great-great-great-grandfather Jean-Jacques Koch bought it from the French Republic at the end of the 18th century. He also has a son named, you guessed it, Egon.

Egon Müller makes several styles from a single grape.

Weingut Egon Müller produces wines using only one grape variety, Riesling. But it manages to release a number of different bottlings every year by harvesting grapes at different times, and vinifying them to a range of different sweetness levels, from off-dry kabinett to the sumptuously sweet trockenbeerenauslese. The latter style, along with the winery’s beerenauslese release, is dependent on vintage conditions being suitable for Botrytis cinerea (noble rot) to infect grapes without turning them moldy.

Its grapes are grown and tasted around the world.

Egon Müller produces Riesling in multiple countries. In Slovakia, Egon Müller IV collaborates with Miroslav Petrech to make top-class Riesling under the Château Belá label. And in the Adelaide Hills of Australia, he also works with Michael Andrewarta of East End Cellars to release a dry Riesling called Kanta.

It owns part of a prestigious German vineyard.

Egon Müller owns 21 acres of the 70-acre Scharzhofberger, one of the world’s best Riesling vineyards. It’s located in Wiltingen, on the Saar river, on a slate-rich, south-facing slope. Classified as an ortsteil (“district”), the Scharzhofberger name can be used on the labels of wines made there, much like the grand cru sites of Burgundy.

The world’s most expensive white wines come from Egon Müller.

Egon Müller’s Scharzhofberger Trockenbeerenauslese sits in third place on Wine-Searcher’s list of the World’s Top 50 most expensive wines. It’s the highest-placed white wine on the list, and its bottles boast an average price of $13,670 and a max price of $32,897.

It’s sweet, but has a wild side.

Egon Müller ferments and ages its wines in thousand-liter old oak foeders (casks), as is traditional in the Mosel region. Where possible, the winery uses only indigenous yeasts for fermentation. This almost always means that not all the sugar in the must is converted to alcohol, but the naturally high acidity of the Riesling grape balances out any residual sweetness in the final wines.

Egon Müller hasn’t seen a bad vintage in decades.

In a wide-ranging interview with Enology International’s Jordan P. Ross, Egon Müller IV described 1987 as “the last bad year” his winery experienced. Despite this, he said that the ancient vines and slate-rich soils of the Scharzhofberger vineyard still provided “very flavorful wines” that year.

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teepee Releases ‘No Reason’ Single

Dream-pop duo teepee released their single ‘No Reason’ on the 13th September via Springstoff. teepee is the spellbinding collaboration between singer-acoustic guitarist Miroslav Patočka (Mason) and singer-electric guitarist Tereza Lavičková. The track was mixed by Tom O. Marsh (HVOB) and mastered by Lad Agabekov of Caduceus Mastering (Kollektiv Turmstraße) and has already been added to Spotify's Indie Radar Playlist. The Prague-based duo has racked up over 200 thousand Spotify streams, seen radio support from Czech radio stations Expres FM, Radio 1, Radio Wave and Slovak Radio FM, were nominated by Radio Wave ́s export initiative Czeching and have shared the stage with names like Jesse Ware, Seafret, Oh Wonder, Peter Bjorn and John or Laurel. teepee have played numerous shows in the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Slovakia and Poland including Enea Spring Break, Waves Vienna, Nouvelle Prague, Rock For People, Sázavafest, and Colors of Ostrava and are also looking forward to a performance at this year’s Reeperbahn Festival. Mason’s grandfather was an accordion player, encouraging a young Mason to pursue his musical talent, and Tereza has always known that her endless reserve of musical creativity needed to be explored. The pair met in high school and began making waves on the Czech independent music scene in 2015. They have since released a debut album and an EP, with another album in the pipeline for the beginning of 2020. Inspired by acts like RY X, Nick Drake, Son Lux, and Sigur Rós, teepee's sound is defined by intoxicating vocal harmonies, with Mason's gentle acoustic guitar enhanced by fragile notes from Tereza’s electric guitar. Subtle samples and synthetic embellishments provide a bed for their melancholic, confessional English lyrics - with elements of their sound drawing parallels to the likes of Daughter, Bon Iver, and Aurora. ‘No Reason’ is a successful exercise in painting pictures with music where Tereza’s angelic voice captures a serene ambience, and the glistening arrangements possess a beguiling aura. The track sends us through dreamy landscapes evoked by minimal instrumentation, with Mason providing subtle touches and a vocal harmony. Tereza gives her insight: “No Reason’ is a very important song for me. It tells a story about our history where men and women grew apart. We created ridiculous binarities of masculinity and femininity that has been damaging our minds and souls for centuries and we claim that it's natural. We make wonderlands out of each other saying that someone is not able to be or do something because of their gender. I think that the most dangerous phenomenon in the world is when one group calls the other group “The Others” because most of the time it leads to injustice. That is why the message of the song is that we should leave behind the dichotomies. There is no reason to keep them because all genders are splendid.” Upcoming Live Dates: 19 September: Reeperbahn Festival 2019, Thomas Read Irish Bar & Club Hamburg, Germany Read the full article

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I loved this book. Miroslav Penkov was born in Bulgaria and moved to US in 2001. This is the first time I have read a Bulgarian author and I am beyond impressed. May be Mr. Penkov draws from stories he heard from people he knew or embellished his observations into these stories, or may be its just pure thought out fiction, but the end product is beautiful. Every story has such depth and strokes and gravitas, its like a beautiful unraveling of events. Such large stories, told in so few words. Reading this has been a humbling experience. They span multiple decades,age groups, social and geographical settings and more importantly so many human emotions. I read some with wry humor, particularly "Buying Lenin", it made me miss my own grandfather. Some with bittersweet joy of letting go of the past (East of the West), some with emotions I don't even have names for but I can feel (The Letter, Cross Thieves), some that struggle with morality and human fallibility (Picture with Yuki) and some I just didn't understand (Devshirmeh), perhaps I will, when I get around to reading this book a second time! My favorites were East of the West, Buying Lenin and Picture with Yuki! The title of the book East of the West: A Country in Stories is well justified! It gave me glimpses into different decades in Bulgaria and lives of different Bulgarians. Looking forward to reading more Bulgarian authors if they are anything like Mr. Penkov.

Jorge Miroslav Jara Salas: Matsu El Picaro, El Recio and El Viejo

Featuring real-life photos of the viticulturists who grow the grapes for these wines, the Matsu wines from Toro, Spain.

First up is the Matsu El Picaro, 100% Tinta de Toro (Tempranillo) from 50-70 year-old vineyards in Toro, Spain. The wine was aged in for 3 months in concrete tanks and 6 weeks in new French oak. 14.5% Alcohol.

Sample submitted for review. The Matsu El Picaro has an SRP of $14 and is available for as low as $12. Ready to buy? Check your local retailers. Imported by Askari L.H. LLC.

The 2017 Matsu El Picaro begins with a really attractive nose once it opens up, which it needs some time to do. After that you’ll find lots of ripe dark berries, licorice and spice. Taking a sip reveals a very smooth, very tasty medium-bodied wine with more ripe berry fruit, great spice notes, licorice and a bit of an earthy streak. Not a ton of depth for Toro but it’s quite good for the price. And just like you would expect from the label, he knows how to have fun but is not terribly deep or complex. A few salty mineral notes reveal themselves on the dry, medium long finish.

Ready to buy the Matsu El Picaro? Check your local retailers.

2017 Matsu El Picaro

TASTE: 8       COST: 7

OVERALL RATING: 7.8

Highly Recommended

Next up is the Matsu El Recio, 100% Tinta de Toro (Tempranillo) from 90 to 100 year-old vineyards in Toro, Spain. The wine was aged in for 14 months in second use French oak. 14.5% Alcohol.

Sample submitted for review. The Matsu El Recio has an SRP of $22 and is available for as low as $18. Ready to buy? Check your local retailers.

The 2015 Matsu El Recio also needs some air to open up but also offers more complexity. It begins with pleasant aromas of black cherry, plum, anise, chocolate, licorice and more. Tasting the wine reveals more ripe dark fruit with wonderful streaks of chocolate, vanilla and sweet spice notes wrapped up in a smooth round mouthfeel. Full-bodied, tannic and with good acidity, this is tasty stuff. It’s perhaps a little rough now but it should develop quite nicely over the next few years. It ends dry and long with lingering ripe fruit and touches of minerality.

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2015 Matsu El Recio

TASTE: 9       COST: 3

OVERALL RATING: 7.5

Recommended Buy

And lastly we have the grandfather of the bunch, the Matsu El Viejo, 100% Tinta de Toro (Tempranillo) from vineyards more than 100 years old in Toro, Spain. The wine was aged for 16 months in new French oak. 15% Alcohol.

Sample submitted for review. The Matsu El Viejo has an SRP of $47 and is available for as low as $38 (Saturday Splurge). Ready to buy? Check your local retailers.

The 2015 Matsu El Viejo begins with aromas of strawberry, raspberry and ripe blackberry along with plenty of wonderful spice notes. Lots of secondary notes also come out as the wine has more time in the glass – vanilla, balsamic, tobacco and even a bit of nuttiness. This is a classic, big and powerful Toro in the mouth. A velvety texture, good structure and plenty of oaky spice and dark fruit are just a few of the highlights. It would be great with a steak. This is definitely a wine to sip and savor as it’s still pretty young so give it plenty of time in the glass to explore how it develops if you drink it now. It ends with a dry, long, tannic finish with a whole bunch of lingering flavors.

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Former Maple Leaf Miroslav Frycer just happy to be alive

Former Maple Leaf Miroslav Frycer just happy to be alive

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Around the time Miroslav Frycer took up hockey in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and early ’70s, his grandfather promised to give him money for every goal he scored. The deal was doomed from the get-go. Times were tight and young Miro, who would grow up to play in the NHL, leading the Maple Leafs in scoring in 1985-86, was obviously a big talent.

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GROUP A EGYPT – Trezeguet Nicknamed after the French striker due to an apparent likeness – which takes a leap of faith – Mahmoud Hasan has actually already earned 23 caps for Egypt. But the Kasimpasa midfielder is now pushing for a starting place in Hector Cuper’s side. He’s been linked with a move to Leicester City to replace Riyad Mahrez. URUGUAY – Rodrigo Bentancur Joined Juventus from Boca Juniors in 2017, which unsurprisingly also saw him established within Uruguay’s first team. Still only had six caps, but likely to start every group stage game and can basically do any job required in midfield. This kid could be the business. RUSSIA – Anton Miranchuk Alexander Golovin is the next Russian star to move to western Europe, but only eight players in Russia’s squad have more caps so he misses out. Miranchuk only made his Lokomotiv Moscow first-team debut in April 2017, but was fast-tracked into the senior international set-up and made his debut only five months later. SAUDI ARABIA – Abdullah Al-Khaibari The youngest player in Saudi Arabia’s squad, Al-Khaibari missed out on the sponsored trip to La Liga at the end of last season, which is probably a good thing. Probably won’t start, but a potential game-changer from the bench. GROUP B SPAIN – Álvaro Odriozola The most notable aspect of Julen Loptegui’s time in charge of Spain is his willingness to give chances to unfamiliar players, particularly those who progressed through his Under-21 squad. Odriozola was Dani Carvajal’s back-up, and it was his Champions League final injury that gave the youngster a chance to impress against Switzerland. He only went and scored the opening goal. PORTUGAL – Gonçalo Guedes Portugal’s Euro 2016 young stars have almost as one failed to kick on, with Renato Sanches the poster boy for that decline. The same looked to be true of Guedes, who joined Paris Saint-Germain in January 2017 for a fee of close to £30m and then barely got a game. He then signed on loan for Valencia last summer, and promptly demonstrated why PSG was so keen. Made his senior international debut in 2015, but he still has only nine caps and is still only 21. MOROCCO – Achraf Hakimi Hakim Ziyech is Morocco’s best player, but he’s got 17 caps and is now 25, so does not qualify. Hakimi has been at Real Madrid since the age of eight and finally progressed to the first-team squad this season. Played nine times in La Liga, twice in the Champions League and made his senior international debut last October. Doesn’t turn 20 until November. IRAN – Saman Ghoddos Only seven caps by the age of 24, but Ghoddos gained notoriety this season after providing both assists in Ostersunds’ 2-1 second leg victory over Arsenal in the Europa League. Want another fun Saman Ghoddos fact? He’s also scored a senior international goal for Sweden. Let’s face it, he is unlikely to face them in this tournament. GROUP C FRANCE – Corentin Tolisso Unlikely to start the tournament having made his competitive debut in October, but there are noises – and those noises are boos – that Paul Pogba could be left out of the starting XI and Tolisso start in Russia. The only one of France’s last eight games that they lost was the one Tolisso didn’t play. DENMARK – Kasper Dolberg Ajax’s next big thing has scored 22 Eredivisie goals in two seasons despite still being just 20, but has yet to break out on the international scene. Made his debut back in November 2016 but still only has five caps and a single goal. That should change in the next fortnight. He’s better than Nicklas Bendtner, for goodness sake. PERU – Miguel Araujo South America is producing some bloody good young central defenders, and Araujo is the cream of Peru’s crop. Linked with a move to Europe at the end of this tournament, he is likely to start in central defence in Russia having marked Lionel Messi out of a qualifier in Buenos Aires in October 2017. AUSTRALIA – Daniel Arzani The youngest player at the World Cup also has a belting first name. Born in Iran, Arzani was named in the A-League Team of the Season after bursting onto the scene for Melbourne City. Expect him to be sold to Manchester City and then immediately loaned to Girona. GROUP D ARGENTINA – Cristian Pavon Will not start given the attacking options Jorge Sampaoli has at his disposal, but with Manuel Lanzini and Angel di Maria both preferring to drift infield, Pavon offers something that no other player in Argentina’s squad can: Natural width in attacking areas. CROATIA – Duje Caleta-Car Might not start in Russia, but Caleta-Car has made himself a fixture in the Red Bull Salzburg team that reached the Europa League semi-final this season. Could be the subject of transfer rumours linking him to the Premier League this summer. Southampton, Newcastle or Everton are our best guesses. NIGERIA – Tyronne Ebuehi Only 22, Ebuehi would have completely avoided my radar had he not joined Benfica on a five-year deal last month having impressed in the Eredivisie with ADO Den Haag. Introduced at half-time against England last week, the right-back was one of the reasons that game turned on its head. Another reason was that England went shite. ICELAND – Albert Guðmundsson Very few options here, so Gudmundsson sticks out like a goalscoring thumb. Scored a hat-trick against Indonesia as a substitute and will hope to push his way into PSV’s first-team plans next season. Albert’s great-grandfather was former Milan and Arsenal striker and later Minister of Finance Albert Guðmundsson, Iceland’s first professional footballer and Arsenal’s second foreign player. Find yourself someone who is impressed by that last sentence, and marry them. GROUP E BRAZIL – Fred Difficult pick, this. Brazil have four outfield players in their squad with fewer than ten international caps. One of those is 32 (Pedro Geromel), one is 29 (Fagner) and another is 30 (Taison). That leaves a 25-year-old who has been in the news once or twice recently for joining Manchester United for £52m and will be Jose Mourinho’s catalyst. Fred has eight caps, and could be the surprise star of this World Cup if he can force his way past Paulinho or Casemiro. Good luck, fella. SWITZERLAND – Manuel Akanji This isn’t a campaign against Johan Djourou, but there must be a way that the team ranked sixth in the world can avoid picking him as their central defender. That ‘way’ might be Akanji, who joined Borussia Dortmund from Basel in January for just north of £15m. He started against Spain last week, which is a good start. SERBIA – Sergej Milinković-Savić A phenomenal talent and one of the standout stars in Serie A, and yet not a certain starter for Serbia. If that sounds a bit mad, it’s worth remembering that Serbia have typically produced battling, physical, ugly sides and are slightly unnerved by an attacking midfielder that demands an attack being built around him. Still to play a competitive game for his country, but boy do we hope that changes in Russia. COSTA RICA – Ian Smith He’s one of only two players under the age of 25 in the squad, so pickings are slim. But he was born in Costa Rica, plays in Sweden and is called Ian Smith. Lovely. GROUP F GERMANY – Timo Werner He’s already scored seven international goals, but Werner could be the breakout star of the entire tournament. This is Germany’s first World Cup since 1998 without Miroslav Klose, but in Werner, Jogi Loew may have finally found his replacement. Werner will start in Russia, allowing Thomas Muller to deut the raum around him. Given Germany’s likely route to the quarter-finals, either of the two looks a good bet for the Golden Boot. MEXICO – Hirving Lozano Sarah Winterburn is president of the Edson Alvarez fan club, but I’m ignoring Mexico’s right-back in favour of Lozano, who could genuinely be a contender for the Best Young Player award. He’s been magnificent at PSV, and while he does strictly have too many caps to be considered here, only three players in the squad have fewer and Lozano is still only 22. SWEDEN – Emil Krafth Nobody in the Sweden squad is aged under 23 and nobody in the Sweden squad plays in Sweden. Instead, let’s go for Emil Krafth and lay out some puns to use this tournament: Learning his Krafth, Krafth work, Krafth-manship, Krafth-y wank. SOUTH KOREA – Lee Seung-woo Wrote the majestic Winterburn, S in her No 10s feature: ‘He is only 20 and he marked his South Korean debut with an assist against Honduras just last month. Recently relegated with Hellas Verona but Barcelona have a buy-back clause that they may well exercise this summer if he excels in Russia.’ That’ll do for me. GROUP G BELGIUM – N/A It sounds like a cop out, but nobody likely to start for Belgium in Russia has fewer than 20 caps. Youri Tielemans and Leander Dendoncker were options and Adnan Januzaj a surprising selection for the squad, but it would be odd if any got more than a smattering of minutes. Sorry, but the problem with having a Golden Generation is that we know them all already. ENGLAND – Jordan Pickford I’ll get told off for not picking Trent Alexander-Arnold, but I just don’t see him getting enough minutes. Pickford, meanwhile, looks to have the No. 1 spot sewn up despite only having three caps. Play well this summer and he can keep it for the next six or seven years at least. TUNISIA – Ellyes Skhiri Only committed to Tunisia earlier this year and therefore has just three caps, Skhiri is likely to play as a defensive midfielder in Russia but might not necessarily start. But could he impress when he does? Ellyes! PANAMA – Michael Amir Murillo Is already being linked with a move to Europe even before the World Cup begins, thanks to impressive displays in MLS and the CONCACAF Champions League. Murillo has 21 caps, but is still just 22 years old. In an ageing squad, that youth is appreciated. GROUP H COLOMBIA – Davinson Sanchez Already a Premier League star after an excellent debut season in England, Sanchez is still to fully make the grade at international level. Has nine caps, but is likely to be trusted by Jose Pekerman to form a central defensive partnership with Yerry Mina. There won’t be many younger pairings than Sanchez (22) and Mina (23). SENEGAL – Ismaila Sarr Keita Balde is just too experienced to get the nod, but Sarr could be Senegal’s suber-sub in Russia. He’s already getting admiring glances from outside France after impressing at Rennes alongside international teammates Diafra Sakho and Abdoulaye Diallo having reportedly turned down an approach from Barcelona. Only turned 20 in February, so potentially quite a talent. POLAND – Dawid Kownacki Is never going to start given the presence of Robert Lewandowski and Arkadiusz Milik, but Kownacki moved to Sampdoria last summer from Lech Poznan and is highly rated in Italy. Won his first league title in Poland and inevitably struggled under the weight of the ‘new Lewandowski’ tag, but is a possible game changer from the bench. Has played almost 150 senior career games despite only turning 21 in March. JAPAN – Naomichi Ueda Both the youngest player in Japan’s squad and the player with the least number of caps, Ueda is a European-style central defender (pacy, powerful, good in the air) of whom Japan expects big things. Still playing in his home country, a successful tournament might accelerate a move to Europe. A successful tournament might just be avoiding finishing bottom of Group H. Daniel Storey Source link The post Time to shine: One breakout World Cup star per country appeared first on 10z Soccer. #WorldCup #InternationalCaps #DanielArzani

Jorge Miroslav Jara Salas: Deeply Rooted in California Wine History: Winemaker Gina Gallo (Video)

Our guest this evening is a third-generation winegrower from one of America’s most historic winemaking families.

At just 10 years old, she tended the gardens with her father and grandfather, and spent her high school summers working alongside her brothers and sisters at the Gallo Family Vineyards.

After studying winemaking at the University of California at Davis, she became an apprentice winemaker under the careful guidance of her grandfather Julio Gallo.

And she joins me live now from her home in Napa Valley: Welcome to the Sunday Sipper Club Gina Gallo!

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On a personal level, you’ve mentioned that finding balance is your most difficult challenge: how do you do it? Is it harder as a woman in the wine industry, than for a man? Why?

You’ve also mentioned that you’re a breast cancer survivor: what was essential to you during that time when you were fighting the disease?

Why are food banks a special interest for you?

What were the most important lessons that your grandfather, Julio Gallo, taught you?

What was the exact moment when you realized that you wanted to make wine? Tell us exactly where you were? What triggered the thought? How did you feel? What was the next step you took to get going on the path to winemaking?

What’s your favorite failure? Where were you? What happened? How did you feel? What did you do to recover? What did you learn from this experience that made you stronger or better in some regard?

On a related note of adversity, in your opinion, what changed for the California wine industry with the wild fires?

Now take us to the best moment of your wine career: what happened? Where were you? What happened? How did you feel?

What’s the most memorable thing someone has ever said about your wines?

What’s the biggest misconception about Gallo wines?

What was something you were wrong about as it relates to making wine?

Describe the downright weirdest wine pairing you’ve ever had? Where were you? Describe the food in detail and the flavors? Which wine? Did it work or not as a pairing?

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  Gina Gallo developed a deep respect for the land early on. At just 10 years old, she tended the gardens with her father and grandfather, picking fruits and vegetables that her mother and grandmother would turn into family meals. She spent her high school summers working alongside her brothers and sisters at our family winery.

After studying winemaking at the University of California at Davis, Gina became an apprentice winemaker at E. & J. Gallo Winery, under the careful guidance of her grandfather Julio. Soon, she completed her first full harvest in Sonoma County, working side by side with her brother Matt, who has grown the grapes for Gina’s wines for more than two decades.

Today, as the winemaker behind our Gallo Signature Series, Gina carves out specific blocks on our most sought-after vineyards to hand craft limited batches of wine.

Louis M. Martini Winery

        MacMurray Estate Vineyards Signature Series Pinot Noir 2014 Santa Lucia Highlands, California, United States

        Julio and Ernest Gallo

              William Hill Chardonnay 2016 North Coast, California, United States

        Louis M. Martini Cellar

                Louis M. Martini Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 Sonoma County, California, United States

        Louis P and Louis M

      Olson Ranch

            Gallo Family

      Julio Gallo

          Ernest & Julio with Awards c. 1965

      Gina Gallo: Artisan Winemaker Inspired by Family, History and Community

  Deeply passionate about honoring the history of her family and the craft of winemaking, Gina Gallo is a third-generation winegrower from one of America’s most historic winemaking families. As the Senior Director of Winemaking, Gina is dedicated to bringing to life her singular vision of wine as a creative expression of the land demonstrating the unique qualities of that vintage.

A Winemaker’s Journey

Gina’s journey as a winemaker began when she was just 10 years old, tending the gardens with her father and grandfather and picking fruits and vegetables that her mother and grandmother would use for fresh, seasonal family meals. One of eight brothers and sisters, Gina has fond memories of how her family’s shared passion for food and flavor brought the generations together. “It was not just about the food, but the people at the table,” said Gina. “We were always there with my mother’s parents and my father’s parents. We learned so much about our history and their history through these meals.”

Gina spent her high school summers working at the Gallo family’s winery, later joining the Gallo sales team after earning her bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame de Namur University. Following in her grandfather’s footsteps, she found her true calling as a winemaker. In 1990, she became an apprentice winemaker at the Gallo family’s experimental micro-winery in Modesto, CA while she also studied winemaking at the University of California at Davis. Under the tutelage of Julio Gallo and Marcello Monticelli, a 30-year veteran of the Gallo team, Gina flourished in the cellar. Three years later, she completed her first full harvest in Sonoma County, working side by side with her brother, Matt. He grew the grapes and she made the wine, in a partnership that has thrived for more than two decades.

Today, as the winemaker behind Gallo Signature Series, Gina is intimately engaged with the Gallo family’s premier estate vineyards in Napa, Sonoma and Monterey Counties. As winemaker, she values the entrepreneurial history of her family, using her experience and creative vision to craft luxury wines from these exceptional vines.

Giving Back to the Community

Now as a mother of two and living with her husband, Jean-Charles Boisset, in the Napa Valley, Gina is committed to her community, particularly organizations that support her passion for healthy, nourishing food. Gina is a board member of the American Farmland Trust, which works to preserve agricultural land, and Taste of the NFL, which raises funds and awareness for food banks and anti-hunger initiatives.

Gina has also been honored with several awards and accolades. She was a 2016 inductee to the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America. Additionally, she was named one of the Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink by Fortune magazine, as well as being named #17 on Decanter magazine’s “Power List” of the most important men and women in wine. Gina also received an honorary Doctorate in Oenology from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island in 2008.

  Handcrafted, Signature Wines

What makes a wine truly special? The most memorable wines hint at the nuances of the vineyard. The most elegant wines reveal the craft of the winemaker. But a wine is much more than grapes and barrels. In many ways, a bottle of wine is a story. A story of words and years and people, woven into every glass.

The Gallo Signature Series honors an extraordinary story that began in 1933. It celebrates the Gallo family’s estate vineyards in Sonoma, Napa and Monterey Counties, and it showcases the personal passion of third-generation winemaker Gina Gallo.

The Journey

The history of the Gallo family is inextricably linked to the history of winemaking in California. What began as a simple idea – to make quality wine accessible to American households – has evolved over decades to encompass premier vineyards and wineries in some of California’s most renowned wine regions.

In the early days of the California wine industry, the Gallo family brought fortified wines to dinner tables across the country. As consumer tastes evolved toward drier, more robust wines, Gallo shifted its winemaking focus to grow side-by-side with America’s interest in wine.

Over time, the Gallo family grew deep roots in Sonoma County, and later expanded its presence into Napa Valley and the Central Coast. Bringing together a truly unique collection of vineyards, Gallo is one of only a few wine producers that can tap into such a diverse range of growing regions and hand-select specific blocks within that wide array of properties. The Gallo Signature Series was born of this unique access.

The Wines

With some of California’s best grapes at her fingertips, Gina Gallo has created three distinct wines from the Gallo family’s unique combination of vineyards. For Gina, the Gallo Signature Series expresses her family’s passion for great vineyards and great wine, and it reflects the best the Gallo Winery has to offer. The Gallo Signature Series marks a return to hands-on, artisanal winemaking for Gina, and it brings to life the enduring legacy of Ernest and Julio Gallo.

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