Female ♀ Grenache & Male ♂ Syrah
2013 Grenache and Syrah from Third Twin, Eleven Confessions, Cumulus, White Hawk Vyds.
- The Female ♀ Grenache is
- 78% Grenache, 19% Syrah and 3% Mourvedre.
- Aged about 24 months in 98% used oak.
- 88% whole clusters, 12% destemmed.
- 55% Eleven Confessions vyd, 37% Cumulus vyd, 5% Bien Nacido vyd, and 3% The Third Twin vyd.
- Alcohol is 15.7%. Acidity is 6.5 g/l. Finished pH is 3.84.
- was bottled November 11-12, 2015 into ??? cases of 750s and ??? magnums.
- The Male ♂ Syrah is
- 79% Syrah, 7% Petite Sirah, 6% Mourvedre, 3.5% Touriga Nacional, 2.6% Viognier,
1.6% Chardonny, and 0.3% Muscat.
- is 35% Eleven Confessions vyd, 31% The Third Twin, 27% Cumulus, 5% White Hawk, and
2% Bien Nacido vyd.
- spent about 25 months in 65% new French oak barrels. The rest were one to four years old.
- 28% whole clusters, 72% destemmed.
- Alcohol is 15.5%. Acidity is 6.8 g/l. Finished pH is 3.82.
- was bottled December 1, 2015 into ??? cases of 750s and ??? magnums.
- These wines shipped together in Spring 2016.
- In the offer letter, the Grenache and Syrah were officially only named with the
symbols ♀ and ♂, resp.
Since I needed to alphabetize the names, and Manfred introduces these names
in his offer letter with,
I have often (maybe always) referred to Syrah as a male and Grenache as a female,
I started refering to them also as Female and Male, resp.
For some reason (perhaps the TTB), on release the wines were officially named
Female and Male, resp.
I received a 6-pack of each.
The Grenache came in brown tissue paper.
The Syrah came in black tissue paper.
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The Grenache has a black wax capsule.
The Syrah has a purple wax capsule and is the taller bottle.
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Magnums of Female ♀ Grenache and Male ♂ Syrah were sold in a wood-boxed set containing
one Male Syrah (left) and one Female Grenache.
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Double Magnums
The winery has confirmed that no 3L bottles of these wines were made.
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