2021 Bedrock Wine Co. Ode to Lucien

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92 points

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  2/11/2024 - SH Wu Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Decanted and served over two days. A thick layer of dark, brooding fruit are given a vibrant mid-palate lift and persistent savory finish.
  
  With more air, the perfumed nose starts to blossom with lavender, savory spices and fresh cut plums. The tannins merge seamlessly into the wine by day two, and this wine acquires a gentle, coating texture.
  
  The vibrant bouquet loses some of its luster by day two, so perhaps this wine simply needs more time in cellar to hit the bouquet of day 1 and the gentle intensity of day 2 at once.

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  2/10/2024 - zscheiner wrote:

  Decanted about a half-hour before service to try to give this as much air as possible at this young age. Brooding at this stage, but not closed, with dark fruit, black rocks, some tannin, but nice acidity and freshness. Savory is a key word here and it complemented brined grilled Flannery pork chops beautifully. I’ll wait a few years for our next bottle.

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  10/14/2023 - WindFlyer Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Bedrock recent releases; 10/7/2023-12/2/2023: purplish, dark and with body, it is a bit reticent at the moment requiring a lot of swirl to offer up blackberry, and plum with whiffs of red fruit, violets and black pepper. equally reticent in mouth, the fruit is soft and fresh and at the moment, not a match for the structure. the finish reprises the nose with an added touch of umami and hints at what is to come.
  
  in the style of a Bandol Rouge, this wine may have already entered hibernation and will need a handful of years to develop and open; when it does, it could very well be outstanding.
  
  14.5% AbV; 100% Mourvèdre mostly from the Bedrock Vineyard plantings that go back to the 1880s; 40% whole-cluster fermented; aged in a combination of Stockinger foudre and 600-liter demi-muids,

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