Orin Swift Papillon Cabernet
| Vintage: | 2021 |
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| Description: | Winemaker Notes\r\nThe 2021 Papillon fills the glass with an unmistakable dark crimson, a flash of neon purple and a ruby rim. Tears move glacially and the wine opens with aromatics of boysenberry jam, violets, chocolate covered blueberry and hints of Cara Cara rind, graphite and brioche. The entry and mid-palate are bright throughout with considerable weight\u2014tones of cassis, blackberry and baking spices flourish. Enveloping texture, chalky, drying tannins and an enduring finish bows out the wine.\r\nHistory of Orin Swift\r\nThe history of Orin Swift Cellars dates back to 1995 when on a lark, David Swift Phinney took a friend up on an offer and went to Florence, Italy to spend a semester \u201cstudying\u201d. During that time, he was introduced to wine, how it was made, and got hooked. A few more years of university led to graduation and eventually a job at Robert Mondavi Winery in 1997 as a temporary harvest worker. Deciding that if he was going to work this hard, it would eventually have to be for himself, he founded Orin Swift Cellars in 1998; Orin is his father\u2019s middle name and Swift is his mother\u2019s maiden name. With two tons of zinfandel and not much else, he spent the next decade making wine for others as well as himself and grew the brand to what it is today.\r\nAbout the Label\r\nThe label features the beautiful juxtaposition of a gorgeous word, 'butterfly', cast against the harsh and gritty hands of a friend and fellow winemaker.\r\nPhinney\u2019s Papillon label is inspired by contradictions. While walking through a vineyard with his three-year-old daughter on his shoulders and thinking about what to call his next wine, a butterfly flew by and his daughter exclaimed, \u201cLook, a papillon!\u201d Phinney was flummoxed as to where she had picked up the French word for butterfly.\r\nIt was on his mind to create a label featuring tattoos on someone\u2019s knuckles. \u201cPapillon has eight letters so the idea clicked. I love the juxtaposition of this beautiful French word on these really gritty hands,\u201d says Phinney, who used one of his grape growers as a hand model.\r\n\u201cHe\u2019s the nicest guy and a third generation old school farmer, which is exactly the look I wanted,\u201d says Phinney, who asked his friend Greg Gorman to photograph the label in black-and-white.\r\nThe label is as memorable as the wine itself. |
| Price: | $ 69.99 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from BASSER’S Fine Wine
| Address: |
6240 Coral Ridge Drive Coral Springs, FL 33076 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 954-840-3122 |
First added to 1000 Corks on February 12, 2024.
