Naked Winemaker

Megan & Ryan Glaab

USA

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Megan & Ryan's Wines

  • USA
  • 8 wines
  • 4 styles

Your avant-garde California dream team

  • Ryan and Megan aren’t your typical Wine Country Cabernet duo. They’re after the best-kept secrets in the Valley — seeking old heritage vineyards with rare, underrated Italian grapes like Vermentino and Aglianico. A bit rebellious? Maybe. Absolutely worth it? Definitely.
  • And they have the expertise to do it with combined experience at Torbreck, Sine Qua Non, Marcassin, Pax, Peay and their own brand, RYME Cellars. They’ve dreamed of expanding with another brand, aptly named Verse, to take on even more opportunities to work with unique fruit from the best growers.
  • Thanks to Angel support and the COVID Relief Fund, Megan and Ryan were able to keep their operations going in 2020 and start their next Verse to make the wines they truly love and share their unique vision with the world.

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Fruit forward with an easy dry finish. Very nice varietal im not familiar with. Like a Viognier blended with Sav Blanc, but richer. Very refreshing, and amazing peach color!

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Light, easy and tea leaves! To me, the fruit hangs back… giving it an earthy nature. I like this style. Went perfectly with my portbello and veggie flatbread.

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This is yet another wine from the vintner that more than held up previous promises. Decanting mattered, and I took about 40 minutes. Served with a spicy and fennel flavored cured meats, a variety of olives, fresh baguette, a medium soft truffle cheese, an aged cheddar and a creamy goat cheese. Served at about 65 degrees (room temp in my apartment), the complexity of the wine was fun.

The kind of heavy mouth feel that is more the hallmark of a young Cabernet Sauvignon but a lighter taste. Eating with a variety of nine different tastes (and then in different orders) is my favorite way of evaluating a new wine.

I admire vintners who work with small-terroir grapes because it takes knack combined with skill to make a desirable taste. And it is that very small-terroir that allows us to understand the soil and sun and moisture imbuing the grape.

As an aside, I appreciate that Meg and Ryan use different bottles for different wines. I also get a kick (pun intended) out of the unusually prominent kicks in the bottles. The Pinot Noir is darn near a weapons-grade bottle.

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So subtle and fun to discover it
s characterics… didn’t really pair well with my vegan options… much better for me in its own.

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Was fun to drink side by side with HERS… surprisingly bold… orange essence… on its own not my favorite, but absolutely delicious with spicy asian broccoli. Thumbs up for food pairing!

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I'm no longer a "Naked Angel" only because I just don't drink as much wine as I used to. (Age/health reasons.) I still have a closet full of wines from Naked though and I pulled yours out the other night just to have a glass with my dinner. It was SO good I saved it to share with my neighbors the following night. Omg. It was luscious. I'm a big pinot noir fan, living up here in the Willamette Valley. In fact, I was a chef for one of the wineries here for several years. High praise for this wine. Smooth and flavor-packed. It made me want to get my membership reinstated with Naked Wines.

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Full bodied, with good fruit flavor. This was good to sip on and with food. Enjoyed with scalloped potatoes and roasted broccoli.

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Megan and Ryan Glaab Winemaker

1 month ago

A special nod to our Vermentino in Jancis Robinson's recent article on Italian varieties in California by Alder Yarrow! Honored to be included!

"...a rapidly proliferating group of devotee winemakers and growers have been grafting, planting and producing a wide variety of Italian grape varieties throughout the state of California, and the results of their efforts are now far too good to ignore."

Want to try our expressions of Vermentino?! Grab our Verse His and Hers Vermentinos in your next box!

Megan & Ryan Glaab VERSE HERS The Bench Vineyard Vermentino 2023
Megan & Ryan Glaab VERSE HIS The Bench Vineyard Vermentino 2023

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