“Our Ballad to Grenache”

I am often amazed at how many wineries shepherd a wine through years of growing and aging, only to under-equip the finished product with anemic marketing support. I believe that each new vintage of a flagship wine should be considered a marketing event, with tech sheets and other collateral to match. On that note, I had the privilege of writing this tech sheet for the 2020 Sticks and Stones, a signature wine from the incomparable Linne Calodo Winery: “Sticks and Stones is our ballad to Grenache, and to our mindset as a blending house...It blurs the dividing line between a varietal wine and a showcase blend—essentially a Grenache done the Linne Calodo way.”