Notes & Tones is a collaborative wine & album release between DJ Muggs, Egon of Now-Again Records and Chris Brockway of Broc Cellars who all dreamt up this project, unlike any other done before. Here we offer V.2 of the wine and vinyl record, two bottles offered as one to enjoy now and one to enjoy later with a little age (if you can resist). We hope you experience the new wine and record release together, as both are something special to delight your senses.
The Wine
Produced by Chris Brockway of Broc Cellars in Berkeley from grapes picked in 2022 from organically farmed Fox Hill Vineyard in Mendocino. The wine is a blend of three grape varieties: 50% Ribolla Galla, 45% Tocai Friulano and 5% Trebbiano. All grapes naturally fermented on its native yeasts and skins in sandstone jarres, then gently pressed to age back into jarres for twelve months. After that year in jarres it was racked to neutral oak barrique where it lived for six months to develop further. The wine was hand bottled by Muggs, Egon and Chris at the start of 2024 and aged for another year in bottle. Only 540 bottles made.
The Record
The second vintage of Notes & Tones continues where the first album – all based on Sun Ra samples - left off: Muggs’ deep dive into Gene Perla’s PM Records catalog of jazz’s wide reach, for your sensory exploration beyond the palate. The record was produced by DJ Muggs of Soul Assassins and readied for release by Egon of Now-Again Records, who oversees PM Records historic label and catalog. 150 colored vinyl and 350 black vinyl records made.
