Ricca Terra Vintners Bullets Before Cannonballs Red Wine 2021 750ml Melon concrete "eggs" (small egg-shaped vats)

concrete "eggs" (small egg-shaped vats)

celebrating the themes of transformation and change

this estate vineyard has produced many impressive wines over the years for a select few wineries

75% -Taylor River

The wine consists of 70% from the most current harvest and the rest is comprised of reserve wine stretching all the way back to the 2013 harvest

Ricca Terra Vintners Bullets Before Cannonballs Red Wine 2021 750ml Melon concrete "eggs" (small egg-shaped vats)The old adage is that inexperienced sailors were defeated by enemy ships because their cannonballs missed the targets. The experienced ones would shoot a bullet first to determine the trajectory prior to the eventual cannonball being fired. The calculations provided a better result with a higher percentage of their target being destroyed. Rather than a mass planting of a new grape variety, Ashley Ratcliffs approach was to plan small plots, watch, wait