About this WINE
Lindquist Family Wines
Central Coast
Central Coast AVA is an all-encompassing appellation used for wines blended across several counties in the broader central coast viticultural region.
The associated counties (and their AVAs) are Alameda (Livermore Valley); Contra Costa; Monterey (Arroyo Seco, Carmel Valley, Chalone, San Lucas); San Benito (Cienega Valley, Lime Kiln Valley, Mount Harlan, Paicines); San Luis Obispo (Arroyo Grande, Edna Valley, Paso Robles, York Mountain); Santa Clara Valley (most of Santa Cruz Mountains, San Ysidro); and Santa Barbara (Santa Maria Valley, Santa Ynez Valley).
Syrah/Shiraz
A noble black grape variety grown particularly in the Northern Rhône where it produces the great red wines of Hermitage, Cote Rôtie and Cornas, and in Australia where it produces wines of startling depth and intensity. Reasonably low yields are a crucial factor for quality as is picking at optimum ripeness. Its heartland, Hermitage and Côte Rôtie, consists of 270 hectares of steeply terraced vineyards producing wines that brim with pepper, spices, tar and black treacle when young. After 5-10 years they become smooth and velvety with pronounced fruit characteristics of damsons, raspberries, blackcurrants and loganberries.
It is now grown extensively in the Southern Rhône where it is blended with Grenache and Mourvèdre to produce the great red wines of Châteauneuf du Pape and Gigondas amongst others. Its spiritual home in Australia is the Barossa Valley, where there are plantings dating as far back as 1860. Australian Shiraz tends to be sweeter than its Northern Rhône counterpart and the best examples are redolent of new leather, dark chocolate, liquorice, and prunes and display a blackcurrant lusciousness.
South African producers such as Eben Sadie are now producing world- class Shiraz wines that represent astonishing value for money.
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This wine is a bin-end, discounted by 20%. Excludes BBX stock.
Bob Lindquist is one of the pioneers of Rhône varieties in California. He started his winery, located in the Bien Nacido vineyard, in the 1980s. Qupé refers to the native Californian poppy and state flower. Bob has travelled extensively to various wine regions and has perfected his craft over the years. His wines are incredibly refined and will often age beautifully in bottle.
Ruby in colour, paler at the rim, the nose has pepper spice mingled with dark red berry fruit – cherries, raspberries and cranberries. There are layers of complexity, with liquorice and cedar spice combined with a floral lift of violets and dried berry fruits. The palate has a juicy but tightly wound core, full of freshness and energy. The tannins are well integrated with a ripe but firm character to them. Drink now to 2027.
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