New California project- Turnstile Cellars

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New project from a former Fort Worth guy, Jidhin Ramankutty. Got the wine bug and decided to chase the dream, so he packed up his stuff and moved to California. He spent some time at Rivers Marie and this is his first finished wine under his personal label, Turnstile Cellars. Release will be late October, and you can sign up at www.turnstilecellars.com

2023 Scopus vineyard Chardonnay (Sonoma Mountain). For those who enjoy the bigger style of Cali Chardonnays, this fits in the rotation. Signature here is texture (which makes sense based on the lees stirring he talked about). In my opinion, this has some resemblance to Hudson-fruit Chardonnays (big but not flabby, ripe but not overly sweet). If giving comparisons, this reminds me of Odette’s Chardonnay (which tracks with the Hudson comment).

Followed over two days and this showed consistent. Nice job on the inaugural wine. I’ve seen Jidhin comment on the board before, so hopefully he will join the conversation.

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Shay - need to learn more about this next time cross paths. Will miss 4th Friday, but hopefully soon.

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Thanks for the note! I’m very happy to hear you enjoyed it! Been a crazy journey but looking forward to releasing it soon!

@Eric_Werner please PM me. I’m going to be back in town in mid-Oct and sharing with some folks. Would love to see you there and try the wine!

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Quick shout-out to Jidhin and Turnstile Cellars on the pre-release tasting event earlier this week here in Texas (and the inaugural release the following day)! Great turnout and the feedback should be encouraging, Jidhin.

Well done, again, on your first release, and looking forward to following the upcoming releases (especially the Purrington Rued Chardonnay)!

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Forgot to PM. Sorry I missed this. Shay - will follow up with you soon.

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Excited for you Jidhin. Looking forward to the wines arrival in a few weeks.

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Thanks Shay! It was fun to share with the folks back there and see their reactions. Certainly felt great to hear it.

@Brian_Tuite looking forward to seeing a couple of these in that awesome cellars of yours!

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got the mailer on this, excited for the release.

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I’ll have to crack one of my bottles soon and see how it has evolved the last few months! Jidhin is off to a great start.

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Excited for you to try this as well! Wine is an excellent place(of course :grin:). Coincidentally, I coravined a bottle for the first time today, I got some additional chamomile notes developing which I’m loving.