Drink This Wine An Everyday Anyway Cuvee 2022 The Marigny X Molly Baz

Where: Willamette Valley, Oregon
Grapes: 51% Pinot Noir 36% Merlot Rose 9% Sauvignon Blanc 4% Chardonnay
Body: Light/Medium
Category: Red Wine / Chillable 

A spirited collaboration between Oregon’s wine hero, Andy Young (The Marigny) and cook + food writer, Molly Baz. It’s a self described “imperfect wine for imperfect people with impeccable taste”. This whole “don’t take it too seriously” tude is a hallmark of The Marigny’s wines and when Molly asked Andy to help her create her perfect everyday drinker, he landed on this blend resulting in a playful light, chillable red wine perfect for food, friends and fun.

From the Winemaker: 

We hesitate to categorize this season’s “red blend” as a red wine because in reality she is so much more than just a chillable red wine. Made with a prismatic blend of red, white, rosé and skin contact juice, it’s really more of a kaleidoscope mashup of all of our greatest hits. It’s a joosy-juice as hell, jolly rancher as fuck, taste the rainbow kind of joint with deep red berry flavor, in a playful light-touch kind of way. This is exactly the type of thing you want to be sippin’ on a hot summer's eve, with a platter of cold cuts or a fresh-off-the-grill burga’.

Optimal Drinking Situation:

Serve chilled between 45° - 65° with friends, in the sun, around the dinner table or wherever good times await

organic //  native yeasts //  vegan

2022  //  750ml  // 12% ABV

Andrew Reginald Young left behind a career as a New Orleans rock drummer in 2012 to make low-intervention wines from cooler climate vineyard sites in the Willamette Valley. He works with a lot of carbonic maceration to keep the wines light, all fermented with native yeasts and minimal intervention in the winery. The name of the winery is an amalgamation on his middle name, Reginald, and his neighborhood growing up in New Orleans, St Tammany Parish.