Community Tasting Note

Ben Christiansen wrote:

Thursday, March 31, 2011 - "A pre-AOC style blend. This is second year biodynamics, the irrigation came in June, with only 6" of rainfall. So a very intense growing condition.

"Red mountain is very low yields, you don't hedge and you don't drop fruit. This wine is a magnified version of a very 'stinky' buodynmaic vineyard.

"So here this is more a difference in blend, elevation and geographic (and yield) than another difference.

Stinky nose, wonderful, "allot of that is dead yeast, and some of the old barrel. This is aged 10 months in oak." Nate notes "cold coffee". This wine is really meant to age, and the 1994 was just opened and doing fine and had a huge balloning effect of smell notes Christophe Hedges.

"There is some herbaciousness on it and that is a symbol of our latitiude. It shows now but god there is nothing like an old bottle.

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