Blend: 36% Roussanne, 29% Chardonnay, 23% Viognier, 9% Petite Manseng, and 3% Muscat.
Vintage production: n/a
Entirely from estate fruit with the exception of Chardonnay from Bien Nacido Vineyard. Aged in 26% concrete eggs, 26% used barrels and 48% new oak.
The name Deux Grenouilles is French for ‘Two Frogs’. The photo on the front label includes a Citroën 2CV. 2CV stood for ‘deux chevaux’ or ‘deux chevaux-vapeur’, which translates from French to English as two steam horses or two tax horsepower, a reference to the low cost of registering the car, and more generally the low cost of buying and maintaining the car. It has many parallels to the Volkswagen Beetle. This was the car Manfred wanted when he turned 18 years old.
