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2022 Bedrock Wine Co. Heritage Wine Papera Ranch
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2022 Papera Ranch Heritage, Russian River Valley
Our Block 6, which is the lone block on Papera Ranch featuring 13 different interplanted varieties, makes for one of the most consistently excellent wines we make year-in and year-out. In years with some warmth, the Carignan really shows its importance. The variety, which has gorgeous color and holds crunch in the face of heat, provides a lovely ballast to the richesse of fruit that is naturally so abundant in the Piner-Olivet area. In 2022, this is the case where the wine has wonderful length and breadth. In a recent vertical we did going back to our first 2011 vintage, we found all the vintages to be showing well but were most impressed by the exoticness and energy from the warmer years of the last decade: 2015, 2017, and 2020. 2022 is going to be in that same vein, and we could not be happier.
Our Block 6, which is the lone block on Papera Ranch featuring 13 different interplanted varieties, makes for one of the most consistently excellent wines we make year-in and year-out. In years with some warmth, the Carignan really shows its importance. The variety, which has gorgeous color and holds crunch in the face of heat, provides a lovely ballast to the richesse of fruit that is naturally so abundant in the Piner-Olivet area. In 2022, this is the case where the wine has wonderful length and breadth. In a recent vertical we did going back to our first 2011 vintage, we found all the vintages to be showing well but were most impressed by the exoticness and energy from the warmer years of the last decade: 2015, 2017, and 2020. 2022 is going to be in that same vein, and we could not be happier.