2024 Sweet Monte

For many years guests have been asking us for a sweet, chilled red wine. 2023 was our first vintage and it flew out the door all summer. Our 2nd vintage, our 2024 Sweet Monte is made from a blend of Montepulciano grapes, which are our newest Italian variety, and our Cabernet Sauvignon .

It has flavors of ripe cherries, freshly made rapsberry freezer jam, and bleuberries. It is totally unique and wildly delicious. It tastes like Sangria and is a great wine for a hot day.

The label of our Sweet Monte was inspired by a photo we purchased at Ellis Island, in New York when we visited several years ago. We looked up our Great Grandfather's name in the list of new immigrants that came over from Italy way back in 1907 when many Italians were heading to America and were processed through Ellis Island. He was 18, traveling alone from Naples, Italy to join his brother in Brooklyn, NY. We could see his real signature in the ledger and the photo we purchased was of the exact ship he traveled over on, The Bulgaria. Our daughter, Isa, then took this photo and used it to create the image of this label. She pretended she was a sketch artist on the shore, doing a quick sketch of the ship that just anchored out with little dinghies nearby to bring those aboard to shore in their new country. Our regular two wine labels tell the story of our current famly, first with the white wine label and then with the red wine label. This label tells the story of what came before.

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