Your Autumn Curation Includes:

Member Blend - Central Coast

Retail: $125.00

Blue sapphires on the depth of the glass, the richness of toasted vanilla oak encased in crushed black roses and dried tea leaves fill your breath. Your palate is greeted by leathered tobacco leaf opening to a round luscious blackberry and velvet olive body with lingering dark chocolate and a precise finish marked by a deeply intense joining of phenolic tension and an infinite tannin focus.

The Double Bond dream has never been to just make incomparable wines, but to make incomparable wines that mean something. As we wrote the Infinity+17 Origins story we tried to encapsulate all that this wine meant to us. We always knew Infinity+17 was something special, not just from its passionate beginnings and uncompromising components but from our faithful members’ feedback and encouragement. Knowing that our wine family loves our wines is all the validation we need, but it was still a proud day when, at the urging of our members, we entered the 2012 Infinity+17 into the largest competition for American wines in the World; the 2017 San Francisco Chronicle. It was awarded Best of Class out of over 7,100 entries. 

In no hurry, as our wines never are, we entered the next vintage, the 2013, into the 2019 Los Angeles International- the second largest US wine competition, a rigorous judging that has been a beacon in the wine world for 8 decades and consists of 2,350 wines from 800 wineries in 19 countries. Again we humbly accepted Best of Class and 95 Points in a letter from the chairman and ‘Sommelier for the People’, Michael Jordan; one of only 15 people in the world who has earned both a Master Sommelier and Certified Wine Education diploma. 

*SEDIMENT NOTICE- The 2009 Infinity+17 is highly prone to sediment due to its age and rich tannins. Sediment is completely harmless and actually a badge of honor for quality wine. We recommend double decanting to minimize the sediment transfer from your bottle to your glass.

Toretti Vineyard- Santa Maria Valley, California

Retail: $66.00

95 Points

BEST OF CLASS

Beckoning with a scarlet rim, this fruit-forward Pinot is mesmerizingly Californian. Wisps of forest floor emerge from under intense red fruit and hints of spice while its balanced acids unfurl in layers with a penetratingly velvet finish that dances on your palate long after your sip has finished.

Hailing from the coveted Toretti Vineyard tutelage which has supplied cult wines such as Caymus, this Reserve vintage was 95 Points and Best of Class at the Toast of the Coast Wine Competition in San Diego. Spare a splash for Pinot Noir Ice Cream with Strawberries and shaved Chocolate (it’s so easy a Wine Club Curator can do it.) 

Larner Vineyard - Ballard Canyon

Retail: $60

90 Points

Tyrian blue ink and deep sapphire edging on the eyes. Crème de cassis and muddled violets introduce wild mountain blueberries and dried black tea leaves on the nose.

Focused beginning of cedar cigar box and freshly cut leather intermingle with sultry black currant, soft wildflowers and oak spice with an infinite finish on the tongue.

Good wine is all about good grapes. And good grapes are only fostered by the most specific of rich soils, and not every soil is best for every type of wine. Imagine a place with ground so beautiful that it was created specifically, almost ordained, to grow the most premium of Syrah grapes. That place would be called the Ballard Canyonappellation in Santa Ynez. And of the vineyards in that perfect place, imagine one with undeniable potential for its most prestigious Syrah grapes that Robert Parker himself equated it to the Grand cru vineyards of the old country. That place would be called Larner Vineyard. And lastly imagine a masterful winemaker thoughtfully transforming those grapes with the utmost care to not adulterate all of the hard work from decades in the dirt with modern, overpowering and masking winemaking techniques. Such slow, meticulous and almost reverent labor would taste like our 90 Point 2012 Syrah.

Ballard Canyon

Retail: $40.00

91 Points

Let your eyes take in the scenery of an ever-refracted golden beam of sun in the glass with the fresh coolness of Tahoe’s depths as your deep investigative inhale unveils wavelike layers crashing in succession against each other of green apples and wet stones, snow melted minerals, subtle phantoms of bartlett pears and winter lychee.

Grenache Blanc is Lake Tahoe to me. With a 94-96 Point heritage, our newest vintage release is winning the hearts of all who try it. Pair it with your Thanksgiving Feast, share a dash or 2 to in place of Chardonnay make a salad dressing that will be the talk of the town or bask in the crystal ambiance of this unique and upcoming varietal.

Wolff Vineyard- Edna Valley, California

Retail: $60.00

92 Points

Boldly beckoning with brilliant ruby edging, this fruit-forward Pinot is mesmerizingly Californian on the palate. Hints of forest floor peek out from under concentrated red berries and spices while its satiny tannin layers have a penetratingly smooth finish that will long outlast your pause between sips and raise your brow as you realize this is what 2013 done well tastes like. 

Gold at the San Francisco Chronicle, the largest competition for American wines in the world with over 6,800 wines from 1,132 wineries evaluated by 64 professional wine judges, and 92 Points at the Orange County Wine Society, the largest California-Only wine judging in the Nation. Spare a splash for Pinot Noir Ice Cream with Strawberries and shaved Chocolate (it’s so easy a Wine Club Curator can do it.) 

La Vista Vineyards- West Paso Robles

Retail: $40.00

As much as I love writing our wines' stories, the best ones always come from our Vintner John himself. It’s an old tale, one that goes back before Double Bond was, well, Double Bond, but it’s why John fell in love with wine in the first place. It’s surprising how often I hear from people that Zinfandel was their first wine love too… its always cathartic to revisit the one that started it all, and it's an even bigger pleasure when a Zinfandel is done so immaculately as this one.

Take a trip with us to yesteryear, it’s even better than you remember with this Zin.

Wolff Vineyard- Edna Valley, California

Retail: $60.00

92 Points

Release this gorgeously balanced wine from its restrictive cork as both you and the Pinot slip off to somewhere more comfortable found in the uncomplicated but complex structure of a wine that is strong enough to hang the weight of your too-long day on. Californian fruit-forward on the palate with an Old-World sophistication that only years in the bottle can impart, I think you’ll find that when you reach the bottom of your voluptuous glass, you’ll reach the contented silence from an enjoyable conversation where nothing was actually said at all.