If I Could Buy Only One – March 1st Vintages Release

We asked our writers, “If you could buy only one wine from the March 1st release, which one would it be and why?”

Tawse Sketches Cabernet/Merlot 2021, Ontario, Canada
$22.95, Tawse
John Szabo – This week’s Vintages release celebrates women in wine, and only one (among several) worth celebrating is Tawse Sketches Cabernet/Merlot 2021. The talented Jessica Otting is head winemaker at Tawse, and ’21 was the last vintage that she worked alongside the late Paul Pender, who passed in February 2022, and the first in which her responsibilities expanded unexpectedly to include the last say in blending and finishing this wine, no small feat under the circumstances.. She (and Paul) got it all right here, creating an attractively-priced, cabernet-merlot blend that finds a juicy milieu between immediate drinkability and a sufficient degree of complexity to keep the punters happy. I’d be pouring this wine at larger parties where a mixed crowd demands something more than the mean, without having to exaggerate spending.

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