Tooth and Nail are grapegrowers and winemakers in the Central Coast region of Paso Robles, a hot and rugged place famed for its dark and heavy red wines. The Destinata wines challenge that perception, all made with minimal intervention (no added yeasts, no fining or filtration and only tiny additions of sulphur) from sustainably farmed vineyards.
The Grenache comes from the Brave Oak Vineyard in Paso Robles and is made using the carbonic maceration technique, most commonly associated with Beaujolais wines. This produces a wine with ripe and moreish red fruit at the foreground and a soft, juicy and drinkable palate.
Aromas of strawberry jam and fresh cherries mingle with hints of tea leaf and cinnamon on the nose and the palate is rounded and persistent. This is a wine of immediate and hedonistic pleasures.