Mahoney Vineyards is a small winery in Napa's Carneros region that until a few years ago was known as Carneros Creek. They're known for their Pinots, but we just had a great Rhone blend, their 2003 Melange, Grenache and Syrah from their "Las Brisas" vineyard. At $24 from the winery, it's more than we'd usually pay for an everyday bottle, but we must have been feeling expansive. It's definitely a New World wine, full and rich and fruity, but it does its heritage proud--not overripe or sweet. It held up perfectly over two and a half days, with food and on its own.
These days give me a red Rhone or its California equivalent, French sparking (typically cheap crémant de Bourgogne, occasionally actual Champagne), and cheap rosés from anywhere in the world, and I couldn't ask for anything more.
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