Sand-Reckoner Vineyards – Tucson

This is a wine I’ve been waiting on for a while. I first tasted this wine as a recently bottled sample in 2018 at the Arizona Vigneron’s Alliance Symposium, and I fell in love instantly with gripping, leathery tannins intermingled with dark fruit and spice. Tasting the 2015 Estate Sagrantino that day… it was kind of like being in love with an intimidating Goth woman who loved me back, and the fact is, I’ve been waiting for this wine to release ever since. The rest of the table where I was sitting found it too tannic, and so I ended up drunk off of this wine at 10:30 in the morning because they all passed their pours to me, and I was happy. Sagrantino, I discovered, was like the woman I’ve always dreamed about marrying, except, in this case, she actually existed and I was enjoying her company.