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Wine 4 min

Prickly Wine

On a Catalonian word, a Muscat that isn't sweet, and the proper use of limited sun in Seattle


Vi D'Agulla means prickly wine in Catalonian, the ancient dialect of the area surrounding Barcelona. Not as effervescent as sparkling wine but more bubbly than a still wine, it's like Cava light — and a better use of a rare sunny day than you might expect.

This wine is like a baby human sitting on a baby deer, or anything sitting on a capybara. The charm is packed in this bottle so tight that it must be hard to get the closure on. The mossbacks who live here know that we only get a few shots a year at sitting outside and enjoying the beauty and the weather. Make the most of it.

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