'Pantagruel' is blended from several barrels of their various West Coast AVAs vs their 'Gargantua' bottling which is a single-state blend (Oregon) AVAs. This is an American Syrah that captures fresh juicy flavors with a panoply of spice, garrigue herbs, red fruit, and mineral character.
The name “gargantua” comes from the Francois Rabelais series of satires concerning two beastly giants: Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. Rabelais was a famous Renaissance writer of humor, of song, and of the hedonistic. He was also a physician, a monk, a Greek scholar, and a humanist. His works would go on to inspire both Cervantes and Shakespeare. These works were imbued with social and political commentary on the royalty, classicism, and privilege of the age, wrapped up in grotesque, rough, and extravagant humor.
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