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03/11/2024

Follow & watch his latest post dropping some knowledge on while wearing yours truly! 🍇👕

03/05/2024

01/18/2024

When in Vegas,

10/05/2023

Wearing my favorite Grape Republic Co. shirt, beers in hand 🍻& having the best time with my fam seeing & .g.goodman 🎶

🙌Special shoutout to my pops for hooking it up ‘twas an incredible show!

05/21/2023

BEAUTIFUL Day for our FIRST market Derby at the Vineyard! Thank you everyone who visited with & supported us today!

05/03/2023

Wear Local, Drink Local & watch on Kelly Drives THIS Thursday, May 4th at 6:30pm EST

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04/07/2023

To clarify, I have been up all night winemaking.

🍷About the design: Bentonite clay is a common winemaking addition used as a fining agent to clarify (most commonly) white wines.

🍇The Grape Republic Co. t-shirts are made for wine geeks, by a wine geek. Each design features fun (& funny) wine industry inside sayings, jokes and terminology that appeal to casual drinkers & wine connoisseurs alike! Learn more about wine through educated design.

03/15/2023

Training Day.

🌱A cordon is a horizontal extension of the trunk of the vine that is trained to grow along the fruiting wire. Cordon trained vines are typically spur pruned. Spur pruning is a more traditional method of training grape vines. It is usually more common in warmer climates & widely considered the best method for maintaining old vines.

🍇The Grape Republic Co. t-shirts are made for wine geeks, by a wine geek. Each design features fun (& funny) wine industry inside sayings, jokes & terminology that appeal to casual drinkers & wine connoisseurs alike!

03/07/2023

I say Sardegna, you say Sardinia.

🍷Sardegna (aka Sardinia) is an Italian island in the Mediterranean sea. It is one of the oldest wine producing regions in the area with over 3,000 years of winemaking history. Vermentino is a white varietal that makes light, refreshing wines with a distinct mineralty, typically including notes of pear, citrus & white blossoms. Vermentino di Gallura, located on the northern side of the island is Sardinia's only DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) appellation (aka the best of the best). These wines must legally be at least 95% Vermentino to use the designation on the bottle. The region was raised from DOC to DOCG status in 1996. Many of the vineyards are have dry stone walls or cacti hedges around them.

🍇The Grape Republic Co. t-shirts are made for wine geeks, by a wine geek. Each design features fun (& funny) wine industry inside sayings, jokes and terminology that appeal to casual drinkers and wine connoisseurs alike!

02/26/2023

Speaking words of wisdom, Let it Breathe.

🍷Letting a wine breathe means exposing a freshly opened bottle to oxygen by decanting, using an aerator or simply swirling the wine in a glass. When you allow your wine to breathe it will highlight the wine's complexity, drawing out a greater range of depth & flavors than you would have otherwise experienced. Allowing a wine to breathe also softens tannins & releases aromatic esters.

🍇The Grape Republic Co. t-shirts are made for wine geeks, by a wine geek. Each design features fun (& funny) wine industry inside sayings, jokes and terminology that appeal to casual drinkers and wine connoisseurs alike!

02/21/2023

Why did the Gallo Nero cross the road? To get to the Chianti Classico!

🍷A black rooster or "Gallo Nero", is the symbol of the wines of Chianti Classico. The legend of Gallo Nero dates back to a medieval dispute between the two warring regions of Florence & Siena over control of the Chianti territory. To put an end to the fighting, it was decided that two horsemen would leave their respective capitals when the rooster crowed, riding until one met the other. The point at which they met would become the boundary between the two regions. In preparation for the event, each region chose a rooster. The Sienese a white rooster & the Florentines a black one. The Florentines locked their rooster in a dark cage without food for a couple of days so that on the day of the ride, the black rooster, hungry & confused, crowed before the dawn, setting off their rider much earlier & thus claiming more territory for the Florentines.

In 1718, to protect the growing reputation of Chianti wines, Cosimo III, the Grand Duke of Tuscany established borders of Chianti production, effectively making it the very first region to be officially designated/protected. In 1924, producers founded the Chianti Consortium to further define & defend wines from the region, establishing production rules. In 1932, the "Classico" designation was created. Chianti Classico DOCG must be produced in the original 1700s designated area & contain at least 80% Sangiovese. There are three tiers of Chianti Classico, Annata (aged 12 months), Riserva (aged 24 months) & Gran Selezione (aged 30 months).

🍇The Grape Republic Co. t-shirts are made for wine geeks, by a wine geek. Each design features fun (& funny) wine industry inside sayings, jokes and terminology that appeal to casual drinkers and wine connoisseurs alike!