The Parallel 34 list
First pour, first word
New arrivals from the four houses, winemaker dinners, and the nights the flight changes — sent by us, not by anyone else.
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Maldonado, Uruguay
Tannat is normally brutal. Eleven miles from the Atlantic, on granite older than almost anything else you will drink from, it is something else entirely. Guests who think they know Tannat do not know this one.
The project was founded in 2008 by Alejandro and Bettina Bulgheroni; the winery itself opened in 2016. Germán Bruzzone is chief enologist, with Alberto Antonini consulting.
Tannat arrived in Uruguay with Basque immigrants in the 1870s and is normally punishingly tannic. At Garzón the Atlantic sits eleven miles away — sea breezes slow ripening and hold acidity — and the vines grow on 2.5-billion-year-old decomposed granite called balasto rather than Uruguay's usual clay.
They planted Albariño, a Galician grape nobody grew in Uruguay, because the maritime climate mirrors Rías Baixas — then put it in Wine Spectator's Top 100.
Wine Enthusiast New World Winery of the Year 2018 — the first Uruguayan winery ever. The first LEED-certified winery outside North America, Silver, in 2019. #11 World's Best Vineyards 2024. Albariño Reserva 2022 at #52 in Wine Spectator's Top 100.
Bottle prices. The list moves with the season — see the full wine list for everything open tonight.
Bodega Garzón is one of the four pours in the $34 Flight of the Parallel, which runs all hours, every day — and it is usually the one guests come back for.
New arrivals from the four houses, winemaker dinners, and the nights the flight changes — sent by us, not by anyone else.
A few emails a year. Unsubscribe any time. Renzo's Restaurant Group.
104 2nd Street South, downtown St. Petersburg. Bodega Garzón is on the list every night.