Punk guitarist. 🎸 Tax attorney. Fashion designer. ✂️ And now, Op’s, a CULT following. Yours for only $27 Over 45% OFF

BTW, this is not hype…. Well maybe it is…. just a little bit. 😁

96 Points - James Suckling - “delicious, showing very fine, succulent tannins..Very good.”

The Intel?? Matt Austin used to play in a punk band. Then he became a tax attorney, hated every second of it - shocking! And his wife Kelly Austin was a fashion designer in LA with zero plans to ever run a vineyard. Somewhere between all of that they won a run-down Walla Walla property at auction, and Grosgrain Vineyards was born.

Kelly designed the label herself. Upon glance, retailers seek it out. People pick the bottle up off the shelf before they even know what’s inside. Perhaps she missed her calling in brand marketing, cuz there is no mistaking it!

But like us, once we pulled the cork we were amazed at the banging deliciousness. And the price! Win Win Ops! Pretty Package AND Great Wine….AND No Breaking the BANK with this undiscovered producer who’s quickly growing a cult-like following. We were happy spies indeed!

This is Grosgrain’s FIRST Cabernet Sauvignon ever made from 100% of their own estate fruit, grown at 1,400 feet on the Oregon side of Walla Walla Valley, the highest elevation in the entire AVA. Shallow silt over cracked volcanic basalt. Brutal wind. Tiny berries, thick skins, serious structure.

2022 didn’t hurt either. Decanter called that Washington growing season the coolest and longest the region had seen since 2011, and the wines that came out of it ”fresh, elegant and age worthy.” That’s the entire Grosgrain philosophy, distilled into one vintage.

In the glass a big kiss of bright red currant leaves its mark. And then there’s the ripe mulberry up front, a curl of cedar box smoke underneath, toasted spices and hints of herbs with a streak of crushed pencil shaving running through the whole thing. Medium bodied with fine grained tannins. One word and only one word came to mind… TASTY!

75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc. 22 months in French oak, 39% new. 96 POINTS!!

Call this your best write-off yet, Operatives. Get it in your Locker, before the label sells out.

96 Points - James Suckling - ”This leads with earthy mineral notes of iodine, leather and red fruit. Medium-bodied. Fresh, crunchy and delicious, showing very fine, succulent tannins ….”