Cruise Wine Company's flagship wine, featuring the diversity of Northern California's terroir. Cruise Wine Company's flagship wine, featuring the diversity of Northern California's terroir. The freshest and most youthful finish in Monkey Jacket history. Hints of graphite, cedar, fresh raspberry, and a pleasant greenness. Lively on the palate, juicy, and with crisp tannins. The aftertaste is scented with white raspberry and rhubarb. Perfect for outdoor activities and barbecues, this wine will spark conversation with friends. Monkey Jacket began with the idea of creating a casual blend wine, mainly Valdiguier. In 2020, 65% of the total is Valdiguier. Valdiguier is a grape with fruity aromas and firm acidity. The Petite Sirah and other red grape blends and Carignan (all vines over 50 years old) are added to complete the wine. Approximately 35% of the total was fermented as whole bunches. All grapes were fermented in concrete, and after pressing, they were aged in old French oak barrels and concrete tanks, so as not to impair the transparency of the fruit. MLF occurs naturally, and a very small amount of sulfite was added just before bottling. "CruseWineCo." and "Ultramarine" are the California brands that are currently attracting the most attention from around the world. Michael Cruse, the owner and winemaker of these two brands, majored in biochemistry at UC Berkley, and after graduating, he learned winemaking from a scientific perspective at SutterHome and Starmont. He did not receive any formal winemaking education, and taught himself all about wine science through trial and error and on-site experience, and founded CruseWineCo. and Ultramarine in 2013. Just three years later, he was selected as Winemaker of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, and was in the limelight as a maverick in the California wine industry. The Cruse Wine Co. brand produces wines with the pure fruitiness and transparency that are unique to California, as well as a strong structure, and the Ultramarine brand produces fragrant, handmade sparkling wines from a single vineyard and a single vintage, inspired by Champagne's Recoltant Manipulant. Even star-ranked restaurants in the United States only allocate a few bottles per year, and it is a popular wine that many sommeliers and wine buyers are desperate to get their hands on. As if to symbolize California wine in an age of diversity, he creates complex, unique, and fresh wines without being bound by traditional styles or grape varieties. He actively uses word-of-mouth and social media as marketing tools, and is making a leap into the world as an up-and-coming winemaker who will lead the next generation.