Bolt To Wines

🌎Happy Earth Day from Bolt To’s newest suite: a 2022 Pinot Noir 🍂 and a 2023 Grüner Veltliner 🦋 both from Sta Rita Hills AVA, available now at boltto.com/shop.

Aromas of Dr. Pepper? Say less. Scores are in from Wine Enthusiast, and suffice to say, we’re equally jazzed with this 94 point Syrah. Buy now at boltto.com.

Excuse me, look at HER 👀
Finally labeled my lovely 2022 Sta Rita Hills AVA Chardonnay, featuring the Catalina Mariposa Lily. My whites are aged in neutral French Oak barrels. I find this, plus this gal’s racy, coastal acid, pleases both the butter chasers and the biggest Chardonnay skeptics. This beaut, plus another white, coming ssssoon. Stay tuned.

Our latest release, fresh at you with a brand new review: 2021 Ballard Canyon AVA Roussanne. The label art, by .rowley.art (as always) features a Lesser Goldfinch among purple sage. Available in the shop at boltto.com


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This is a flat-out gorgeous wine, crisp and spicy but with plenty of that creamy Rhone goodness the variety MUST have. Fairly deep yellow in the glass, with golden hues along the rim. Rich oak fills the nose, adding wonderful texture to lush floral blossom: wilted lily and flush camellia with dark guava and banana filling the tropical score-card.

Steely and flint-driven on the tongue, applesauce and pear coursing in with time, a bright vitamin-C pang poking at all receptors. Over the middle, the sharp acidity continues, while some of that oak smooths and fluffs the brightness into a well-balanced shock of color and nuance. Green apple and even greener apricot drives a finish where white-wine tannin generates plenty of rasp and guarantee ageability. These wines never disappoint and here is yet another winner for now or the cellar.

2021 BOLT TO Ballard Canyon 14.0

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