2011 50 Harvests Cabernet Sauvignon

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Like many Italian immigrants, the family behind Scotto Cellars made small batches of wine in New York City at the turn of the last century. I’m not sure where he got his grapes for making gallon jugs to sell down at the docks, but at the time a lot of California grapes and juice headed eastward on trains to be made by home winemakers–a tradition that actually continued throughout the Prohibition era. After getting into the retail business, the family moved out to California in 1963. Now the company holds an extensive portfolio of brands, but today we’ll be looking at the one called 50 Harvests.50 Harvests is named in honor of that 1963 move to the Golden State, picked in 2011 and released last November after a stay in…


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