A quick note before you open the first bottle.
Most blended wines are assembled, where the grapes are grown separately, fermented separately, then mixed by the winemaker to hit a target.
A field blend is different. Multiple varieties grow together in the same vineyard, get harvested together, and ferment together. The winemaker doesn't control the ratio, the land does.
The Austrians have a word for it: Gemischter Satz, meaning "mixed set." It was once the dominant farming style across Central Europe, because planting many varieties in one field reduced the risk of losing everything to a single frost or disease. The diversity was practical before it was philosophical.
Several wines in this box take that idea even further mixing red and white grapes in the same fermentation, a style known in Portugal as Palhete, with roughly 1,000 years of documented history. These aren't experiments. They're some of the oldest winemaking traditions on earth, and they are the core of this Bizarre Blends box.
