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Original Price: $30 per bottle

As many of you may know, Guy has been working in the vineyards and wineries in the Southern Hemisphere for a number of years. It started as an opportunity to work 2 harvests each year--the growing seasons are opposite each other, the Southern Hemisphere’s harvests in March/April and California’s in September/October—and it has turned into a passion to create wines that express a perfect and unique varietal match to the microclimate where the grapes are grown.  These are wines with distinctive varietal and local character--a special sense of "thereness"--and we feel that for these particular varietals, they places produce grapes and wines that are unrivalled anywhere in the world. The experience of working multiple harvests around the world has been phenomenal! The people and the grapes we work with are some of the best in the world. In Argentina, all our vineyards are at high elevations in the foothills of the Andes, where they achieve amazing ripeness and complexity. In New Zealand, our Sauvignon Blanc is from some of the oldest vineyards in Marlborough, the region we have found to be the home of the best of the best for Sauvignon Blanc. After learning, and loving the personality of these grapes, our new GUSTO international label was born in 1999. Tastings.com has some nice things to say about our 2000 Gusto Vita: "Brilliant ruby red-violet hue. Intense aromas of cassis, licorice and leafy notes. A rich entry leads to a moderately full-bodied palate and a big finish with chewy fruit, elegant tannins, and a long, long finish. A very varietally expressive and ageworthy wine. RATED: 91 points (Exceptional)" Some of the reviews we received for the 1999 Gusto Vita: The Underground Wine Journal "Dense appearance of purple mauve color. The nose has tobacco, blackberry, currant and leather. Soft attack of ripe blackberry on the palate with currant and a hint of mint. The flavors are round and balanced and show good integration. Lingering, deep, ripe fruit on the long finish with hints of cedar, mint and cocoa. Good overall balance and integration. This is an elegant wine." 91 points. The Wine Spectator "This fruit driven winner throws a blast of blackberry, plum and blueberry flavor at you, then lets the toasty finish take over. Very Good!…Drink now through 2002". 89 points.

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