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Ben Justman🍷
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Owner/Winemaker at Peony Lane Wine Low Sulfite wine from the highest elevation vineyards in 🇺🇸 Governor's Cup Award Winner 2022, 2023, 2024 Host of @SoakQuest - Make Bitcoin Fun Again
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BenJustman 2 months ago
This is what being an adult looks like to me. image
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BenJustman 2 months ago
Most wines taste the same. I've commonly opened bottles and thought "I've had this wine before" even if its from a producer I've never heard of. Most wine is made as a commodity. It is made to be an alcoholic beverage and there's nothing wrong if your main goal is to get drunk. Wine can be far more than that. Winemaking sits between art and science, but when focusing on the bottom line, the art is usually the first thing removed. Price isn't everything, but as you start going up, the commodity wine begins to disappear. Anyone with a winemaking degree from UC Davis can make technically correct wine, but it takes an artist to make interesting wine. Drink whatever tastes good, but if you have never understood why people get fall down the wine rabbithole it's probably because you've mostly been exposed to commodity wine image
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BenJustman 2 months ago
If you're "aging" a bottle of wine on your kitchen wine rack, you're doing it wrong. That's the worst place to store wine. You're exposing it to light, temperature swings and pungent smells. If this is you, find the excuse you've been waiting for. Just open the bottle. When you are actually ready for the 5-10 year commitment of aging wine, do yourself a favor and invest in proper storage. Wine needs darkness, stable temperature, and time, not your kitchen counter image
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BenJustman 2 months ago
People who consistently drink California Cabernets are usually thrown off by my wine. They aren't wrong because Taste Preference is Personal But if you specifically drink California Cabernet Sauvs you are drinking one of the most commoditized products in the wine world. High end California Cabernet can be World Class. It can be amazing wine. The problem is that most California Cabernet is not World Class. It is styled and manipulated to fit a very specific flavor profile. Deviate from that and it's suddenly "not what a Cab should taste like." That single phrase tells you everything about how narrow the template has become. Peony Lane is different and that's the point. I do not make California wine in the mountains of Colorado. image
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BenJustman 2 months ago
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