Excellent examples of Rhone varietals from Santa Barbara County, today’s Insider Deals includes the tercero Wines Mourvedre, Grenache and Cinsault.
Alright Rhone fans, today is your day as we welcome Larry Schaffer of tercero wines and President of the renowned Rhone Rangers organization to our Insider Deals. He brings with him three excellent, hand (and foot) crafted, small production wines.
Before we get to those, here’s a bit more about the winery:
Larry went back to school later in life to pursue his passion, taking classes at community colleges with kids who literally could have been his kids, and then received his MS in Viticulture and Enology from UC Davis. He moved to the Santa Barbara County wine region, and that is where he has remained since 2005, starting on the winemaking team at Fess Parker Winery and then eventually branching off to start and run tercero wines.
tercero wines concentrates on small lot, hand crafted wines using grapes exclusively from leading Santa Barbara County vineyards and works with grapes from nearly every AVA within the county. Though his main concentration is working with rhone varieties, Larry remains curious and therefore also works with pinot noir, gewurztraminer, cabernet franc, and a few other fun and interesting grapes. And therein lies the beauty of Santa Barbara County.
Foot stomped, fermented whole cluster and aged for an extremely long time, all three of the wines in our 3-pack today are the real deal and together have an SRP of $160.
This Article was originally published on The Reverse Wine Snob
