Carignan, the winegrape variety everyone has had but doesn’t know it.  Up until the 1990s, Carignan (pronounced ‘care-in-yawn’), was the third most widely planted winegrape variety in California. To this day this grape is still used as a blending agent, in large, mass-produced red wines in

Every year over the last 5 or 6 years the wine writing community has launched a barrage of articles essentially claiming, “This year is . . . the year of canned wine” If you don’t believe me, just check out a few of these articles. 

We often get asked by consumers what the word “carbonic” means, since it’s listed on our Carignan can label. We released our first carbonic red canned wine with our 2017 Poor Ranch ‘Coyote Rock Block’ Carbonic Carignan. It grew a quick following and we’ve been