2019 Broc Cellars Cabernet Pfeffer Sogi Enz Vineyard

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  11/6/2020 - frvi Likes this wine: 85 Points

  Easy drinking, earthy cherries. Light bodied, some pepper to it.

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  9/29/2020 - Wine Ratings Likes this wine:

  Lively and bursting with flavour, along the same vein as their Love Red but more...Pfeffery. The wine scientists are still somewhat undecided on Cabernet Pfeffer’s origins, but this much is true - there isn’t a whole lot of it (approx 12 acres worldwide in 2019, all of it in California relatively near the Bay Area). What they do know, owing partially just to the name, is that wines from the variety tend to be pepper bombs (Pfeffer being pepper in German, of course). Maybe that expectation had me surprised at the juicy, smooth nature of Broc’s offering, the result of the carbonic fermentation they used specifically to counter some of that typically high-tannin, spicy nature. The results are undoubtedly excellent - yes, the tannin and pepper are there, but the wine is so much more. Ripe currents, cranberry juice, red/black plums, and loads of wild berries burst forth immediately, flavours coming in faster than I could even note. Savoury elements - licorice root, mint/thyme, cedar forest, graphite - were plentiful as well. The wine carried a whimsical but pleasant cherry/grape koolaid feel with a licorice finish. Lip-smackingly delicious but with the sneaky structure that could make this a stellar BBQ wine (though frankly quite gulpable on its own).

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