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Bonny Doon Cigare Volant 2013  - First Bottle

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The blend of 55% Grenache, 25% Syrah, 16% Mourvedre and 4% Cinsaut offers subtle mulberry fruit on the nose, a spicy peppercorn kick and plenty of gamy meats. That funky meat quality, from raw to jerkied, is prominent and pure on the sip, surrounded by exotic plums and Middle Eastern spices.

Technical Details

  • Blend55% grenache, 25% syrah, 16% mourvedre, 4% cinsaut
  • CountryUS
  • RegionCalifornia
  • Vineyard38% Rancho Solo, 21% Bien Nacido 18% Ventana, 17% Del Barba, 4% Bechtold, 2% Alta Loma
  • Farming MethodBiodynamic viticulture and biodynamic practices
  • Alcohol14.5%
  • PH3.48
  • TA6.5g/100mLs

Bonny Doon Cigare Volant 2013

Rhone Blend  |  US
WE93

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One of the classic wines of California, Randall Grahm put Rhone varieties on the map in California with this wine. The 2013 is a blend of blend of 55% Grenache, 25% Syrah, 16% Mourvedre and 4% Cinsaut and sourced from top vineyards across the state. It is made up of 38% Rancho Solo, 21% Bien Nacido, 18% Ventana, 17% Del Barba, 4% Bechtold and 2% Alta Loma. This vintage marks the 30th vintage of this groundbreaking wine. 

About the Producer

While Bonny Doon Vineyard began with the (in retrospect) foolish attempt to replicate Burgundy in California, Randall Grahm realized early on that he would have far more success creating more distinctive and original wines working with Rhône varieties in the Central Coast of California. The key learning here (achieved somewhat accidentally but fortuitously) was that in a warm, Mediterranean climate, it is usually blended wines that are most successful. In 1986 Bonny Doon Vineyard released the inaugural vintage (1984) of Le Cigare Volant, an homage to Châteauneuf-du-Pape, and this continues as the winery’s flagship/starship brand.


Since then, Bonny Doon Vineyard has enjoyed a long history of innovation – the first to truly popularize Rhône grapes in California, to successfully work with cryo-extraction for sundry “Vins de Glacière, the first to utilize microbullage in California, the first to popularize screwcaps for premium wines, and, quite significantly, the first to embrace true transparency in labeling with its ingredient labeling initiative. The upside of all of this activity has brought an extraordinary amount of creativity and research to the California wine scene; the doon-side, as it were, was perhaps an ever so slight inability to focus, to settle doon, if you will, into a single, coherent direction.