Our Dulcinea is named after Dulcinea del Toboso, the sacred yet fictional princess for which Don Quixote commits each of his valorous deeds in the novel written by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605. She epitomizes Don Quixote’s chivalric conception of the perfect woman.
The name Dulcinea is based on the Spanish word dulce (sweet), and suggests an overly elegant "sweetness." To this day, a reference to someone as one's "Dulcinea" implies idealistic devotion and love.
We hope that our Dulcinea will inspire the same chivalric acts and idealistic imagination with each sip. This sensational dessert wine has been aging in French oak barrels for nine years. Our winemaker has artfully blended the Sangiovese harvested from our local Sierra Foothills with a delicate Pinot Noir grown on the foggy Sonoma Coast. The wine rolls down your tongue with impossible softness and embraces you with its rich flavors of ripe cherry and spice. It was fortified with our very own brandy and is rounded beautifully by its sweetness, just as the Spanish name implies.
This Dulcinea is the perfect expression of the holidays. It is soft, rich, and decedent. It warms your soul from within, and elicits the kind of joy that must be shared with the loved ones that surround you. We simply could not wait to get it to you.
"For her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such...” (Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote 1605).
