Carneros Wine Blossom ...
created from the essence of the land
The Red Flower Carneros Wine Blossom Story
In August 2006 Red Flower and The Carneros Inn reached out to the local community
of wineries, bee keepers, botanists and to the home owners at Carneros to ask a simple question... what defines the scent of the region, what is the essence of Carneros?
Each guest was sent an empty mason jar with a note - asking them to fill it with
definitive scents. The out pouring of stories and smells was incredible.
On a sunny early evening in August everyone gathered at The Inn and set their jars on a
table next to Red Flower's glass distiller. There was a spirit of the collective, of a dada performance on smell and soil and most of all a clear love for the land and for the story.
This scent is the unfolding story of the history of the land, 4 generations of calming the Diablo clay loam, the last jar of star thistle honey, water from the Huichica Creek, lavender and chardonnay grape leaves, tender and ephemeral California poppies, pinot grapes, roses, sprigs of wild blackberry, apple blossom, braids of grass, coyote bush, salty brine,
spice bush leaves and the scent of the reluctant grape blossom.
The Wine Blossom Book
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