Musician's Wine Case (12 Bottles)

Instrument: Violin

This one is a first for us: the first wine at City Winery to carry the Harmony Drops name, and the label treats that milestone with a little reverence. Off white paper, almost parchment, a single illustration, modern type. It looks like something that's been on a shelf for a hundred years and just arrived. The violin fronting it isn't arbitrary. In an orchestra, the violin is the tenor, the voice that leads the other instruments and sets the harmony everyone else tunes to. That's exactly the job this wine does at the table. It's built for blending voices, for pairing, for the moment when everyone's glass finds the same note. Fitting name. Fitting label. Fitting job.

Instrument: Flute, played by a frog on its lily pad

If the Albariño is the quiet opener, the Gewürztraminer is the one that gets the room smiling. The label features a frog mid-song, flute to its mouth, clearly delighted with itself and the season around it. That's not decoration. It's the wine. Gewürztraminer is aromatic and whimsical in exactly that way, lychee and rose petal practically announcing themselves before the glass reaches your nose. Our designer built the frog as a character celebrating being alive in spring, breathing that fervor into a woodwind. Pour this one for someone who thinks they don't like sweeter whites. It tends to change minds.

Instrument: Violin

This one is a first for us: the first wine at City Winery to carry the Harmony Drops name, and the label treats that milestone with a little reverence. Off white paper, almost parchment, a single illustration, modern type. It looks like something that's been on a shelf for a hundred years and just arrived. The violin fronting it isn't arbitrary. In an orchestra, the violin is the tenor, the voice that leads the other instruments and sets the harmony everyone else tunes to. That's exactly the job this wine does at the table. It's built for blending voices, for pairing, for the moment when everyone's glass finds the same note. Fitting name. Fitting label. Fitting job.

Instrument: Lute

This GSM, a blend of Grenache, Mourvèdre, and Syrah, started life as a Vinofile VIP+ exclusive, where members tasted each variety on its own before we brought them together. The label leans into that journey with big illustrated drop caps, one per varietal, straight out of a fairy tale book. The rabbit himself is a familiar face. He first showed up on an earlier Grenache label out of Hudson Valley, and our locals loved him enough that he earned a second act here as the supporting character. He carries a lute this time, cast as a traveling musician tasting apples on his way through the world, telling stories from the road. It's an easy-drinking, upbeat red with real rhythm to it, built for the kind of night where the conversation keeps moving.

Instrument: Xylophone

Zinfandel is a winter wine at heart. Bold, structured, built for a cellar rather than a patio. When our designer sat with it, the association that came up wasn't spring or celebration, it was old jazz posters, the kind Count Basie used to headline. So the label takes you into a jazz club after midnight, the xylophone player offsetting the rest of the band, syncopation pulling the whole room slightly off the beat in the best way. That's this wine. It doesn't rush, and it doesn't ask permission. Pour it when the night has already found its groove.

Instrument: Resonator guitar

This is the closer, and the label knows it. Bold, strong, built to say what the wine is without a single word of copy. The resonator, specifically a dreadnought, was chosen because it's the instrument of old time blues and country, the sound of the American South where bourbon itself comes from. That's the backbone this wine has: deep, resonant, structured, a little bit rock and roll. It's the bottle you save for the last pour of the night, when everyone's settled in and nobody's in a hurry to leave.