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Scotty Boy!

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (& Breakfast & Lunch) 2021

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Tasting notes

Full carbonic maceration on both a red and white Grenache produces something genuinely unusual: a deeply colored, plush red with candy-bright cherry fruit, soft tannins, and a floral lift from the Blanc component. The hotter 2021 vintage pushed ripeness to the limit, making this the most full-throttle, sticky-fruited version of the wine to date.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
StrawberryCherryWildflowersPlum
  • Style: Ripe, full-carbonic red; deep ruby; plush strawberry and cherry fruit; 15% ABV
  • Grapes & Terroir: 65% Spear Vineyard Grenache Noir (Sta. Rita Hills, organic, sandy soils, up to 900ft); 35% Tres Hermanas Vineyard Grenache Blanc (Foxen Canyon Road, Santa Maria, organic); co-fermented
  • Winemaking: Full carbonic maceration 18 days; native yeast; unfined, unfiltered; zero added sulfites
  • Serving: Serve at 55F; no decant needed; drink now through 2024
  • Pairing: Merguez, lamb burgers, aged sheep's milk cheese, spiced roast chicken, charcuterie
  • Similar To: For fans of Beaujolais Nouveau and easy-drinking carbonic Grenache who want a California spin

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (& Breakfast & Lunch) is a co-fermented blend of 65% Grenache Noir from Spear Vineyard in the Sta. Rita Hills AVA and 35% Grenache Blanc from Tres Hermanas Vineyard on Foxen Canyon Road in Santa Maria. Both sites are organically farmed. Spear Vineyard sits along the Highway 246 corridor at elevations up to 900 feet, with infertile sandy soils and consistent cool marine winds off the Pacific. Tres Hermanas is a family-owned cattle ranch and vineyard founded in 2001 by the Teixeira family.

The entire blend undergoes full carbonic maceration for 18 days, meaning whole clusters ferment in a sealed, CO2-rich environment before pressing. This technique extracts vivid fruit character and softens tannins while preserving freshness. The 2021 vintage was hotter than normal, pushing the grapes to higher brix at harvest, so this bottling is notably riper and more full-bodied than previous vintages. After pressing, the wine is bottled unfined, unfiltered, with no added sulfites.

Winemaker Scott Sampler operates Scotty Boy! Fine Wines & Super-Coolers out of Buellton, California, as the vin de soif counterpart to his serious, long-maceration CCGP label. The Scotty Boy! line sources exclusively from small family-owned vineyards farmed organically or sustainably, uses native yeast fermentations, and adds nothing to the wine. All bottles are meant to be drunk young, well-chilled, and without ceremony.

The soft tannins and ripe fruit work well with charcuterie, grilled merguez, lamb burgers, or a simple spread of aged sheep's milk cheese. Serve it well-chilled — around 55F — and it also holds up alongside spiced roast chicken or Moroccan-style dishes with dried fruit and warm spice.

Wine details

Dry/Sweet:, Dry
Wine Type:, Red Wine
Wine Style:, Medium Body
Grapes:, Grenache Noir, Grenache Blanc
Farming:, Organic
Vintage:, 2021
Alcohol:, 15%
Country:, United States
Region:, Santa Barbara County
Appellation:, Santa Barbara County
Bottle Size:, 750ml
Sugar Level:, Zero Added Sugar

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Producer profile

Scotty Boy!

Scott Sampler grew up in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 80s, earned a philosophy degree from UC Berkeley, and spent years in the film industry before making his first wine harvest in 2010. He launched The Central Coast Group Project (CCGP) in 2012, a label focused on long-maceration, age-worthy Syrah and Grenache-based wines made for the fine dining world. His winery and cellar are located in an industrial complex in Buellton, California.

Scotty Boy! Fine Wines & Super-Coolers is the vin de soif line Sampler created as a counterpoint to CCGP. All Scotty Boy! wines are sourced from small family-owned vineyards farmed at minimum sustainably, and often organically or biodynamically, and harvested by hand. The label's stated mantra is nothing added, nothing taken away: no inoculations, no additions, no added sulfur, native yeast fermentations throughout, and all wines are bottled unfined and unfiltered. Bottles are priced under $30 and are meant to be drunk young, chilled, and often.

Wine region

Santa Barbara County, United States

Santa Barbara County sits roughly 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, where the Transverse Ranges run east-west rather than north-south, opening the valleys directly to Pacific Ocean influence. This unusual geography channels cold marine air, fog, and afternoon winds deep inland, creating one of California's cooler growing climates despite its southern latitude. The county contains several distinct AVAs including Sta. Rita Hills, Santa Maria Valley, Santa Ynez Valley, Ballard Canyon, and Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara, each with different levels of ocean exposure and soil types.

Spear Vineyard sits within the Sta. Rita Hills AVA along the Highway 246 corridor at elevations peaking at 900 feet above sea level, with infertile sandy soils that stress the vines and concentrate fruit flavors. Sta. Rita Hills is classified as a cool Region I climate, comparable to Champagne, driven by persistent afternoon winds and morning fog rolling in from the Pacific roughly nine miles away. Tres Hermanas Vineyard is located on Foxen Canyon Road in the Santa Maria Valley, a separate appellation north of Santa Ynez also known for cool-climate Rhone and Burgundian varieties. Santa Barbara County as a whole is Grenache country on its western flanks, where the combination of infertile soils, cooling winds, and a long growing season produces small-berried, aromatic fruit.

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