Buena Vista The Count Founder's Red Wine 2016

The winery’s colorful founder, The Count of Buena Vista, pioneered premium winemaking in California. A tireless and passionate devotee of California wine, The Count imported hundreds of premium vines from Europe, dug Sonoma’s first wine caves, introduced innovative viticulture techniques, and wrote the first treatise on California wine. Buena Vista Winery honors his legacy, bold vision, and commitment to excellence through this red wine – the Founder ’s Red Wine.

A mix of unidentified red varieties, this wine opens slowly, without much in the way of aromatics. Weedy sage, tobacco and a grip of tannin give it weight and richness alongside its full body, as a bramble of blackberry and currant weave within.