L. Preston
Red Table Wine
Dry Creek Valley, Certified Organic
2006

A farmer’s name is his trademark and promise, stenciled on his fruit boxes, on his barrels, on his equipment. It’s mine, it says, it works and it’s good. “L. Preston” is Lou Preston’s stencil and his trademark and his promise; it’s a synthesis of the best of the Prestons’ vineyards.

Preston wines have always featured blending as a creative expression. A salute to the field blends of earlier times, blending also achieves balance and breadth of flavor by the combination of different estate-grown grapes from a singular terroir.

L. Preston is a Rhône-style blend: Syrah, Mourvèdre, Carignane, Cinsault; it has the grapes and the character to slip unobtrusively onto a Bandol table or into a Provençal carafe. But it is also a typical Dry Creek wine.
Shiraz, Mataro, Malvoisie; the same grapes with different names, it’s at home here, too.

Some might call this wine classic Californian, following the pre-1970s definition of a varietal wine. We think of L. Preston as fusion France/Sonoma, a metaphoric
confluence of the Rhône River and Dry Creek. You might call it classic con-fusion, but at least you know it’s Lou’s wine, it works and it’s good.

Estate Grown, Certified Organic
CA Retail: $34.00
56% Syrah, 8% Cinsault, 18% Mourvèdre, 18% Carignane

Updated: July 16, 2008