Another proper Shea Estate release! True to the varietal, true to the terroir of the site, true to the house style.
Starts out with a really nice tension between the freshness and purity of the fruit pulling at the dark, brooding, manly aromas that linger under the surface.
For now it's very young. There's nothing wrong with drinking this wine right now but it is definitely built for the long haul and will reward patience.
A little cinnamon spice and tree bark earthiness promises to develop into the future. It's a highly structured line with pretty tight, short-grained tannins. But the wine presents as a unified package, so this structure should really unfurl nicely as time goes on.
My guess is that The prime drinking window on this wine will start at about 2025 and will hold a nice solid plateau until 2032. At that point it will start to get pretty tertiary, but it certainly won't fall off a cliff, and I'll probably keep one of these around to see what it looks like in 2040.
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7/14/2023 - Jack Cranley Likes this wine: 93 Points
Another proper Shea Estate release! True to the varietal, true to the terroir of the site, true to the house style.
Starts out with a really nice tension between the freshness and purity of the fruit pulling at the dark, brooding, manly aromas that linger under the surface.
For now it's very young. There's nothing wrong with drinking this wine right now but it is definitely built for the long haul and will reward patience.
A little cinnamon spice and tree bark earthiness promises to develop into the future. It's a highly structured line with pretty tight, short-grained tannins. But the wine presents as a unified package, so this structure should really unfurl nicely as time goes on.
My guess is that The prime drinking window on this wine will start at about 2025 and will hold a nice solid plateau until 2032. At that point it will start to get pretty tertiary, but it certainly won't fall off a cliff, and I'll probably keep one of these around to see what it looks like in 2040.
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