Four score and seven months ago, Tony Cartlidge was eating lunch with our biggest distributor at the Grey Dog Cafe in Greenwich Village in New York and a conversation came up about how we were searching for a new label for a new blend wine Maker Paul Moser was working on. Tony turned his vision towards a more interesting label and he noticed a nearby painting on the wall of the cafe. "How about something like this?" That painting is currently hanging in our tasting room after being purchased by Tony.
Tony contacted the artist (Jack Delaney) and met with him to discuss using the image as a wine label. While meeting with old Irishman, Tony asked Jack if this was a self-portrait. Without saying anything, Delaney flipped through his notebook to a page with the sketch of the dog, spun the notebook around and slid it towards Tony, where Tony then saw the words under the sketch..."self portrait." The eyes on the dog are in fact the human eyes belonging to Jack Delaney.
The name Rabid is intended to embody the "fanatical passion" for great wine. The blend changes from year to year. For example, the previous vintage had 13 varietals composing the blend, but the current vintage is simply 4: primarily Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Sirah, then rounded out with Merlot and Syrah.
That's it in a nutshell. I've decided to leave out the part about the angry villagers with torches battling against hordes of pillaging Norsemen as it's really not germane to the story.
Be on the look out for the release of the 2006 Rabid Red.
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