Prospect 772

"The Brat"

How can you call a wine "a brat" that is so damn good? A blend of yes - you guessed right, my favorite varietals - Grenache (53%) & Syrah (47%) from the Sierra Foothills. Big, bold, juicy fruit, luscious & lingering - this wine can actually speak to you! It calls out with velvet excitement, balanced dimensional flavors and true Rhone aromas. Brings me straight back to my Chateauneuf-du-Pape dreams.

Prospect 772 Wines is a relatively new wine company with longtime inspiration. This is wine gang with a huge amount of experience, history and the proprietors, Ron & Wendy (above) are finally realizing their dreams in a delicious way.

Though we probably met many times over the years, I really met Ron in the Rhone three years ago with a bunch of his cronies, including Jeff Cohn - winemaker for Prospect 772 (more about Jeff later) at the Rhone Decouvertes. We were all like a band of gypsies traipsing through France, drinking to our hearts content, lavishing in the artistic Rhone winemakers efforts from the barrel, the bottle and the glass. Each day brought a new adventure of some very serious wine tasting and of course the night brought the serious and very fun wine drinking (and not to mention eating). This is when I first heard about Ron's wine project, with the same passion and enthusiasm that we saw at their debut celebration this past November, where we got to first taste The Brat and The Brawler (Syrah with 4% Viognier). That night they were also blessed by a wonderful review (see below) from James Laube of the Wine Spectator.

Beginners Luck? I think not. This is a true love story about a boy & a girl & their friends & their love of grapes.

91 points ~ Wine Spectator, November 2007
Savory, with supple flavors that build, with spice, dried berry, anise and sage, supported by firm tannins and ending with a hint of spice and cedar. Grenache and Syrah.

Drink now through 2011. 150 cases made.
–James Laube Wine Spectator

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