3 years since my last sound bottle, and this is singing. Stemmy funk married to bright cranberry fruit, black pepper, clay-like minerals and tangy acid. Shapeshifter of a finish that morphs from cran-raspberry to rose to orange and bay leaf, before returning to bright red fruit - but it goes on for 25 or thirty seconds.
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Mourvèdre d'altitude vinifié en partie en grappes entières. Le vin sera carafé une heure.
Robe sombre mais translucide, brillante. Aromatique discrète à l'ouverture qui s'ouvre sur les petits fruits rouges, la prune, à l'aération des notes épicées apparaissent.
Ce n'est pas un vin qui en met plein les gencives, il y a une structure, des tanins mais fins. On n'est pas non plus dans le glouglou, c'est presque sérieux, avec une belle verticalité. La bouteille a vraiment gagné à l'aération, se montrant de plus en plus expressive et définie avec des notes florales qui apparaissent. Très jolie interprétation du cépage qui pourra se garder pas mal d'années. C'est un vin plutôt fait pour la table, j'ai beaucoup aimé.
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Gorgeous on the first night Decanted for about an hour, the wine’s red fruit personality showed beautifully. Not a full blown carbonic wallop, but a really fresh and elegant fruit in the nose. Very easy to drink. On night two the wine retreats a bit. More elegant/serious, less gregarious and fruit forward. The last glass, on night three, was a little tired.
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First bottle in 2 years, and it has evolved quite nicely. Lots of the same joyous elements, with a touch more depth and jamminess to the red bramble fruit (or strawberry-rhubarb compote), paired with the zingy acidity and savory, sweaty under-funk. Unfortunately, this bottle is also marred by a relatively high level of VA - not enough to call it flawed (to me) and still very drinkable, but higher than ideal, throwing the balance out of whack on the top end of the aromatics and palate.
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Tasted blind. Pretty nose of red berries and cherries -- quite fragrant and fresh. There's good acidity on the palate with sour cherries and blood orange notes. Nice finish. The wine felt a bit light on the palate, but overall it's lovely to drink.
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A 2018 Dirty & Rowdy Horizontal (Clare's backyard): Grapes grown on volcanic granitic soils. Bright, almost candied raspberry aromas with some lemon and herbs. Palate had bright raspberries, dark blackberries, herbs, earth, and a nice mineral streak. Creamy texture but with a bit of spritz. Somewhat of a short finish and lacked a bit of concentrations. 88+ on d1. On d2, carbonic signature of candied berries on the nose while the palate had the same flavors as d1 but better integrated. 90 on d2.
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Underripe red fruit - raspberries and strawberries. Anise, cinnamon, allspice and dreid herbs (garrigue?). Earthy, and yet fruitier than Mourvedre sometimes is. Acid is medium +, tannins are medium +, body is medium. Really nice! Drink it now; but could also benefit from further aging.
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Decanted for an hour and consumed over the following two. Dark yet translucent ruby purple core with good density to the rim. Subtle yet pungent on the nose with notes of raspberries, underbrush, creosote, anise, and creme de violette. The palate is rich yet crisp with sweet tart fruit, firm tannins, and lifting acidity. As usual from this producer the wine is beautifully balanced with tremendous complexity at a young age.
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Popped and poured. On the nose, straight up ocean spray cranberry juice. Raspberry coulis. Some pine needles. I hate it when people use this, but petrichor. This is straight up like drinking a glass of cranberry juice while walking through a mossy forest. It's joyful.
On the palate, it's more intense fruit with some nice minerality and mossy earth to back it up. Medium plus acid--that's definitely where the structure is coming from, since the tannins are light. This wine has so much energy. I guess the acid will help it keep, but why wouldn't you want to drink it now?
13% abv. Medium ruby, very aromatic. On the palate, cherry, red raspberry and rose petals. Excellent depth and length, really nice balance. This delicious wine should continue to develop and improve over the next 3-5 years.
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PnP, no decant. Didn't need it, as it turned out, since this wine is just totally gulpable (Mike Pobega alert!). Smooth, long, lovely with a lighter weight than most D&Rs. Nice integrated mourvèdre taste. Went beautifully with a salad nicoise (OK, our version of one--no green beans). Very compelling wine. 12/21/20 (or thereabouts) Very good.
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Lots of energy here with big fruits leaning raspberry and candied cranberry. Some subtle herbs mid palate and bit of a forest floor like ending, if someone spilled raspberries all over the pine needles and dirt.
I like how one review described it as deceptively complex. It dances around.
This wine is truly dirty AND rowdy. Love it.
No decant. Drink now.
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Excellent Mourvedre. Drank on Hardy's Zoom virtual tasting. Upon opening - aroma of cinnamon. Agree with Hardy's comments and others --- red raspberry, other red berries. Nice spices maybe rosemary. A bit of funk and earth. Not "heavy" at all. Went well with the music. Second night with dinner - went well with food.
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Virtual Tasting Crew! This is as good as the '16, although younger and more hyper-active right now. Decanted 2 hours. Dang, the layers on this thing are incredible. Not sure if it's the lockdown, but this wine just brings so much joy to the day. Beautiful classy nose of dried flowers, raspberry, with a hint of funk lurking underneath. Palate is light and joyous, dancer-like, with strawberry candy, freeze dried raspberries, woody herbs (rosemary, thyme), and some good warm dirt and funk underneath. Deceptively structured with complex layered mid-palate and smooth tannins on the finish. Yum!
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Consumed during Hardy’s virtual tasting, which is so fun. I love the nose on this wine—floral (maybe roses), raspberries, boysenberry, and some meaty savory notes. On the palate after a 30 min decant was still a bit bitter (?) on the finish. Lots of cranberry, very bright and fresh, but lean and austere. I am thinking it will be better with time and food. I think I could be rating this prematurely. Will try to save a taste for day 2. Day 2: the bitterness has faded and seems predominately floral and red fruit with some tartness. Excellent food wine and better day 2
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Drinking this watching Hardy's live tasting session online during Covid19 quarantine 2020! It is joyous, beautiful, bright but slightly hazy ruby red, intense fresh red fruit (Hardy says candied, yep), a bit of dusty tannin, SOIL, EARTH, LAND, shrubbery on the finish. I don't even know that means, but I think it's right.
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13% abv. Medium ruby, moderate aromatics. Boysenberry, red cherry and cinnamon highlight an intense and focused palate impression. Medium depth, long aftertaste. This precocious wine should continue to improve over the next 4-7 years.
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2/1/2024 - dlduchon Likes this wine: 92 Points
Super delicious. Hardy is an amazing winemaker, so impressive.
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4/17/2023 - ohne_musik wrote: 93 Points
3 years since my last sound bottle, and this is singing. Stemmy funk married to bright cranberry fruit, black pepper, clay-like minerals and tangy acid. Shapeshifter of a finish that morphs from cran-raspberry to rose to orange and bay leaf, before returning to bright red fruit - but it goes on for 25 or thirty seconds.
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12/29/2022 - HandmadeHomemade wrote:
So fruity and fun to drink. Still hanging around, vibrant fruit acid, some gamey notes in there.
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3/17/2022 - Blog Likes this wine:
Mourvèdre d'altitude vinifié en partie en grappes entières.
Le vin sera carafé une heure.
Robe sombre mais translucide, brillante.
Aromatique discrète à l'ouverture qui s'ouvre sur les petits fruits rouges, la prune, à l'aération des notes épicées apparaissent.
Ce n'est pas un vin qui en met plein les gencives, il y a une structure, des tanins mais fins. On n'est pas non plus dans le glouglou, c'est presque sérieux, avec une belle verticalité. La bouteille a vraiment gagné à l'aération, se montrant de plus en plus expressive et définie avec des notes florales qui apparaissent. Très jolie interprétation du cépage qui pourra se garder pas mal d'années. C'est un vin plutôt fait pour la table, j'ai beaucoup aimé.
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1/16/2022 - MartyL wrote: 91 Points
Gorgeous on the first night Decanted for about an hour, the wine’s red fruit personality showed beautifully. Not a full blown carbonic wallop, but a really fresh and elegant fruit in the nose. Very easy to drink. On night two the wine retreats a bit. More elegant/serious, less gregarious and fruit forward. The last glass, on night three, was a little tired.
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12/17/2021 - ohne_musik wrote: 88 Points
First bottle in 2 years, and it has evolved quite nicely. Lots of the same joyous elements, with a touch more depth and jamminess to the red bramble fruit (or strawberry-rhubarb compote), paired with the zingy acidity and savory, sweaty under-funk. Unfortunately, this bottle is also marred by a relatively high level of VA - not enough to call it flawed (to me) and still very drinkable, but higher than ideal, throwing the balance out of whack on the top end of the aromatics and palate.
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8/9/2021 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 91 Points
Tasted blind. Pretty nose of red berries and cherries -- quite fragrant and fresh. There's good acidity on the palate with sour cherries and blood orange notes. Nice finish. The wine felt a bit light on the palate, but overall it's lovely to drink.
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5/5/2021 - HandmadeHomemade Likes this wine:
Rhubarb and liquorice juice. Great with a slight chill with some grilled pork. Med-full, crunchy, red fruits, some sourness. Easy.
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1/30/2021 - James Kim Likes this wine: 90 Points
A 2018 Dirty & Rowdy Horizontal (Clare's backyard): Grapes grown on volcanic granitic soils. Bright, almost candied raspberry aromas with some lemon and herbs. Palate had bright raspberries, dark blackberries, herbs, earth, and a nice mineral streak. Creamy texture but with a bit of spritz. Somewhat of a short finish and lacked a bit of concentrations. 88+ on d1. On d2, carbonic signature of candied berries on the nose while the palate had the same flavors as d1 but better integrated. 90 on d2.
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11/28/2020 - Biskuit wrote: 93 Points
See prior note. I love Dirty & Rowdy. Exuberant.
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8/14/2020 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine: 91 Points
Underripe red fruit - raspberries and strawberries. Anise, cinnamon, allspice and dreid herbs (garrigue?). Earthy, and yet fruitier than Mourvedre sometimes is. Acid is medium +, tannins are medium +, body is medium. Really nice! Drink it now; but could also benefit from further aging.
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8/7/2020 - Badfish Likes this wine:
Decanted for an hour and consumed over the following two. Dark yet translucent ruby purple core with good density to the rim. Subtle yet pungent on the nose with notes of raspberries, underbrush, creosote, anise, and creme de violette. The palate is rich yet crisp with sweet tart fruit, firm tannins, and lifting acidity. As usual from this producer the wine is beautifully balanced with tremendous complexity at a young age.
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7/31/2020 - mkribar Likes this wine: 93 Points
Popped and poured. On the nose, straight up ocean spray cranberry juice. Raspberry coulis. Some pine needles. I hate it when people use this, but petrichor. This is straight up like drinking a glass of cranberry juice while walking through a mossy forest. It's joyful.
On the palate, it's more intense fruit with some nice minerality and mossy earth to back it up. Medium plus acid--that's definitely where the structure is coming from, since the tannins are light. This wine has so much energy. I guess the acid will help it keep, but why wouldn't you want to drink it now?
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7/26/2020 - dlduchon Likes this wine: 90 Points
I perceive this as Mourvèdre in a Beaujolais style. Refreshing, but the heartiness of the Mourvèdre providing some structure.
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5/26/2020 - Mike Dildine Likes this wine: 92 Points
13% abv. Medium ruby, very aromatic. On the palate, cherry, red raspberry and rose petals. Excellent depth and length, really nice balance. This delicious wine should continue to develop and improve over the next 3-5 years.
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4/6/2020 - Peter Kleban Likes this wine:
** (at least)
PnP, no decant. Didn't need it, as it turned out, since this wine is just totally gulpable (Mike Pobega alert!). Smooth, long, lovely with a lighter weight than most D&Rs. Nice integrated mourvèdre taste. Went beautifully with a salad nicoise (OK, our version of one--no green beans). Very compelling wine.
12/21/20 (or thereabouts)
Very good.
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3/24/2020 - Mootsie Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lots of energy here with big fruits leaning raspberry and candied cranberry. Some subtle herbs mid palate and bit of a forest floor like ending, if someone spilled raspberries all over the pine needles and dirt.
I like how one review described it as deceptively complex. It dances around.
This wine is truly dirty AND rowdy. Love it.
No decant.
Drink now.
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3/21/2020 - tederf wrote: 92 Points
Excellent Mourvedre. Drank on Hardy's Zoom virtual tasting. Upon opening - aroma of cinnamon. Agree with Hardy's comments and others --- red raspberry, other red berries. Nice spices maybe rosemary. A bit of funk and earth. Not "heavy" at all. Went well with the music. Second night with dinner - went well with food.
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3/21/2020 - ohne_musik wrote: 93 Points
Virtual Tasting Crew! This is as good as the '16, although younger and more hyper-active right now. Decanted 2 hours. Dang, the layers on this thing are incredible. Not sure if it's the lockdown, but this wine just brings so much joy to the day. Beautiful classy nose of dried flowers, raspberry, with a hint of funk lurking underneath. Palate is light and joyous, dancer-like, with strawberry candy, freeze dried raspberries, woody herbs (rosemary, thyme), and some good warm dirt and funk underneath. Deceptively structured with complex layered mid-palate and smooth tannins on the finish. Yum!
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3/21/2020 - Decanting Queen Likes this wine: 90 Points
Consumed during Hardy’s virtual tasting, which is so fun. I love the nose on this wine—floral (maybe roses), raspberries, boysenberry, and some meaty savory notes. On the palate after a 30 min decant was still a bit bitter (?) on the finish. Lots of cranberry, very bright and fresh, but lean and austere. I am thinking it will be better with time and food. I think I could be rating this prematurely. Will try to save a taste for day 2.
Day 2: the bitterness has faded and seems predominately floral and red fruit with some tartness. Excellent food wine and better day 2
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3/21/2020 - Biskuit Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drinking this watching Hardy's live tasting session online during Covid19 quarantine 2020! It is joyous, beautiful, bright but slightly hazy ruby red, intense fresh red fruit (Hardy says candied, yep), a bit of dusty tannin, SOIL, EARTH, LAND, shrubbery on the finish. I don't even know that means, but I think it's right.
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2/26/2020 - Mike Dildine Likes this wine: 92 Points
13% abv. Medium ruby, moderate aromatics. Boysenberry, red cherry and cinnamon highlight an intense and focused palate impression. Medium depth, long aftertaste. This precocious wine should continue to improve over the next 4-7 years.
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