Mick Fleetwood Private Cellar Collection
When he’s not touring with original band, Fleetwood Mac or his Mick Fleetwood Blues Band or his Island Rumours Band, drummer Mick Fleetwood is blending wine in California’s Lake County. Mick’s latest release is a series of wines made at Langtry Estate & Vineyards, formerly known as Guenoc winery.
Contract winemaking is common in the wine industry, where people who own neither vineyard nor winery can pay someone to make a single wine or an entire line of wines.
When Mick debuted his first wine, Mick Fleetwood 1998 Cuvee, in 2004, he turned to well known Santa Ynez winemaker, Mike Brown to produce his first release. A blend of 75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, it was noted as an all-occasion wine, and considered an all-American red.
The Wall Street Journal did a blind tasting of more than 50 celebrity wines and awarded Mick Fleetwood Private Cellar “Best Wine by a Living Musician,” stating “Very Good. Smooth, velvety and elegant, with great fruit and nice acidity. Real stature. Great with a rare steak.”
Fleetwood and his wife, Lynn, became interested in wine because Lynn loves to cook and they enjoy trying different wines to match the food. When asked what his favorite wine was, his answer was an emphatic “Merlot. A 2002 Frog’s Leap,” to be exact. At their home in Lahaina, Hawaii, Mick and Lynn have a 3,000 bottle wine cellar. Now that’s a serious collection.
You can find the Private Cellar Collection at Costco $19-$20.
Music to match the wine:
Blue Again (Live) Mick Fleetwood Blues Band
Recorded live at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri in February of 2008.Fleetwood, who has teamed up on this recording with guitarist and lead vocalist Rick Vito, bassist Lenny Castellanos and keyboardist Mark Johnstone.
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