Tongue Dancer Wines

Tongue Dancer Wines All intellectual whimsy comes from our hearts, our heads, and always after we drink a bottle of this stuff! I do it for the sheer love of the Burgundy grape.

In my 29+ years of tinkering (yes, you could call it that) with the Burgundy grape, I’ve come to love and appreciate the subtle nuances, such as texture, taste, weight and movement that it imparts in the glass and on the palate. So, while I was making wine for my brand ‘MacPhail Family Wines’, I was getting offers from amazing vineyards that I couldn’t pass up. ‘Tongue Dancer Wines’ came about as

a result of these relationship and amazing fruit. After a bit of alchemy and intuition, I have learned how to let this fruit guide me and carry me through its process, and the result is a wine with heightened aromatics and intense flavors. The wine is rich, has texture, and carries weight – all of which I refer to has having great “mouth-feel”. Yes, making wine this way demands more focus, and each lot is always touched with as much attention and fervor as the next one. We end up with something that is lush and luxurious, and meant to be just a great bottle of wine. I’ve been in this business for almost 30 years, and those who know me well can say I am a bit obsessive and passionate about what I do – and what I do is make Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. I am committed to it. I am practicing what I try to teach my daughters, and that is follow – and trust – your gut, and let your passions be your guide. It is with the understanding that although I am a simple man, my desires run deep, and I simply want to keep exploring the wine’s depth and breadth. It’s this visceral desire that inspired my wife and I to embark on this leg of our wine-journey. This is not an arrogant expression of mastery, as I am the forever-student with the vines as my teacher. Why “Tongue Dancer Wines”? We wanted to create an image of taste - and as hard as that is sometimes, we think this label captures what we’re trying to convey. This wine will surely dance on your tongue. To family and good friends, " ~ James MacPhail

This goes out to all our Cadillac buffs: what vintage of car is this (graced our 2020 )? Is it a ‘67? It is an actual...
08/24/2026

This goes out to all our Cadillac buffs: what vintage of car is this (graced our 2020 )? Is it a ‘67? It is an actual car - Chris Blum made it into a label for us, so we know it exists in real life. TIA!

Sunday evening magic.
08/24/2026

Sunday evening magic.

🦊 Tongue Dancer Wines' August CHILLAX 4-Pack Offer 🦊 - https://mailchi.mp/tonguedancerwines.com/august-newsletter-merch-...
08/19/2026

🦊 Tongue Dancer Wines' August CHILLAX 4-Pack Offer 🦊 - https://mailchi.mp/tonguedancerwines.com/august-newsletter-merch-sale-17250392 In our ever-luvin' ways of thinking of you, we put together 4 'chill' Chardonnays that represent the essence of the chillax. These lower-alcohol-higher-acid Chardonnays are perfect for the "Chard-curious", too! Although our Fall Release is September 5th, these are classic wines that scratch that chillax-vibe itch.

Also, it's harvest time. And it's bottling time. So, yeah. We need this, too.

Saturday nights calls for the sultry and seductive. This 2023 Pinot noir from the Lakeview Vyd in Green Valley is just o...
08/16/2026

Saturday nights calls for the sultry and seductive. This 2023 Pinot noir from the Lakeview Vyd in Green Valley is just one clone: La Tâche. The beauty of the vintage matched with the fierceness of the clone make music together that is … enlightening. The crazy thing about this vineyard is that it’s unpredictable: we’ve brought in and BARRELED the 2026 *before* bottling the 2025! 🤪

Crazy good. 🤤
08/13/2026

Crazy good. 🤤

Tongue Dancer Wines The Sly One Chardonnay Dry Creek Valley 2024 is our Beverage of the Week. Tongue Dancer Wines (TDW) has released its third vintage of its “The Sly One” (TSO) Chardonnay, along with a spoiler alert — it’s amazing. https://icont.ac/51l9X

Five days ago was our first day of harvest! On August 3rd, 2026, we brought in less than 1 ton of pinot noir from Green...
08/08/2026

Five days ago was our first day of harvest! On August 3rd, 2026, we brought in less than 1 ton of pinot noir from Green Valley. This is the earliest on our record books for incoming fruit - beating out 2015 (Aug 21). Now, to be fair, we’ve brought in nothing else yet. This vineyard is the Lakeview Vyd, and the berries are so very small. We *have* to get them off quickly. So while we’re almost sold out of the 2023, releasing the 2024 next month, and the 2025 was just bottled - we wait to see what 2026 will bring with this very light crop. Plus, tequila shots with our crew. 🍇

07/26/2026

Stay classy.

We absolutely loved the 2020 vintage, too.
07/20/2026

We absolutely loved the 2020 vintage, too.

Over the course of a week, I taste a bunch of wine, usually with friends, and almost always with my wife. Here are some of the wines we tasted over the past few weeks. These are wines that were no…

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