Allison Levine
Please The Palate Wine of the Week: Bonifacia Wines 2020 Teroldego, Heringer Vineyard, Clarksburg
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Looking at the glass, the wine is a deep, inky purple color. It is fair to think the wine will be a big, heavy red wine. Yet it was anything but that. Instead, it was very acid-driven with beautiful violet and dark red fruit aromatics. That is why the Bonifacia Wines 2020 Teroldego, Heringer Vineyard, Clarksburg is the Please The Palate wine of the week.
About Bonifacia Wines
Bonifacia Wins was started by Anna Bassett-Lopez in 2019. Anna did not grow up around wine. Rather, she attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where she worked in the chocolate lab and graduated with a degree in Food Science. While attending a career fair, Anna met a winemaker and accepted a six month job in Paicines. She loved it and focused her energy on wine. Anna worked harvest and production internships and rose through the winemaking ranks at facilities both massively large and very small. She worked at Oyster Bay in Marlborough, New Zealand and Stone Tower in Leesburg, Virginia. She worked at Trefethen in Napa and Justin in Paso Robles.
In 2019, Anna picked the first grapes for her Bonifacia Wines label. Bonifacia is an Italian name which translates to “lifetime determined by you” and was coined in memory of her late uncle Bonifacio, who also enjoyed the world of agriculture. According to Anna, Bonifacia Wines are a tribute to Mother
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