2023 Bacchus Galacchus Cabernet Franc

The canvas of space ripples and BACCHUS GALACCHUS, as massive as a hundred Suns, surfaces at the edge of our solar system. He sails towards us from light years of distance, his outstretched cybernetic hand holding a giant shimmering wine glass big enough to entomb the earth- to drink the Earth!

He’s an enormous Space God and he’s going to drink us. And yes I know the proper Galactus was just in the Fantastic Four movie but that’s not this. It’s kinda this. My fave comic character has been the Silver Surfer 4eva. It was pure synchronicity that this wine came to be named Bacchus Galacchus (see how I dodged that copyright probbo with a “ch” #smart). My Mom christmas’d me a ridiculous Bacchus head decoration better suited to an English garden than a tasting room and insisted I hang it here. To jigsaw it into my aesthetic I thought to reshape/repaint it to look like Galactus, and my Wine Space God was born. On its own this is a story of only mild amusement, suitable to hang on a wall, but then It’s funny how ideas find me and how my wines find these ideas. 

I knew this Cabernet Franc would be massive from minute one of walking the vineyard- That the heat of Lodi and the age of the vines would challenge me to embrace a voluptuous style. So here we are at a whopping 15.1 abv. A Zeppelin of a wine. A Bullfrog of a wine. A ravenous Space God of a wine, with eyes burning like twin Suns, intoxicating, euphoric, and ancient. A convergence of chaos and meaning, of Christmas presents and comic books, and of 45-year-old vines traveling as fast through time to be here as Bacchus Galacchus to consume us. Enjoy with braised continents, drink now through Doomsday.