Thursday Tasting — Grenache | August 6

Seven wines. One grape. Four names.

Grenache answers to four of them: Garnacha in Spain, Garnatxa across the line in Catalonia, Cannonau on Sardinia, and the same vine in every case. Where it started is still argued — the traditional account has it spreading out of Aragón with the medieval Crown of Aragon, and Sardinian researchers have made a serious case that the island had it first. Nobody has settled it, which is unusual for a grape planted this widely.

So we are not lining these up by weight. We are lining them up by what the vines are standing in: decomposed granite sand high in the Sierra de Gredos, granite again in Gallura, alluvial river stone in the Uco Valley, Barossa bush vines going back to 1889, a Santa Barbara co-ferment, the heat-holding galets roulés of Rasteau, and last the black slate of Priorat. The first wine is the quietest thing on the table. The last one is the same grape after it has had to fight for everything. No reservation needed. Just show up.

The Lineup

• 2025 Bernabeleva Camino de Navaherreros — $22
• 2024 Surrau Naracu Cannonau di Sardegna — $20
• 2024 Ver Sacrum Garnacha — $25
• 2022 Yalumba Samuel's Collection Bush Vine Grenache — $20
• 2023 Frequency Wine Company GSM — $35
• 2023 Domaine La Luminaille Rasteau Garance — $34
• 2021 Celler Cecilio Black Slate Gratallops Vi de la Vila — $24

Thursday, August 6 · 5:00–8:30pm · $20 · No reservation needed

What's Pouring Next

• August 13 — Ferragosto
• August 20 — Sparkling
• August 27 — White Burgundy

Same corner, same time, every Thursday.