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| Drinking window: Drink between 2021 and 2025 (based on 4 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.1 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by kingkanu on 7/14/2023: This has developed nicely, lovely red berry fruits and a great tang of acidity, well worth giving these a few years to relax, brilliant Cali Beaujolais (293 views) | | | Tasted by Xavier Auerbach on 1/27/2023 & rated 91 points: A private dinner (Wine Bar Oocker, Amsterdam, NL): Vines planted in 2001, grafted to Gamay in 2015, volcanic soils, carbonic maceration in stainless steel, aged for 7 months in neutral French oak puncheons (500 litre), 13% ABV. Fresh, light and bright, sweet strawberries, grapefruit, jewelly, mild tannins, spicy minerality, silky texture, taut but supple and juicy, hint of green apple on the finish. Lovely wine, pure and precise. (1268 views) | | | Tasted by kingkanu on 8/18/2021: Lovely jewel like red purple. Crushed strawberry juice on the nose. The palate has a little more savoury aspect, some smoke and minerality, fresh and juicy red berry fruit, maybe a little warm at the end although it states only 13%. Very enjoyable at the simple end of gamay (736 views) | | | Tasted by yaCellar on 11/26/2020 & rated 91 points: Zippier and fruitier than the Bearg bottling. Nice tannins too. (833 views) | | | Tasted by yaCellar on 6/28/2020 & rated 90 points: I’m going out of my way to drink more Gamay, and gain some understanding. Perhaps I should’ve reached for a benchmark Beaujolais instead of a hobby project of Pax. So I can’t yell heads from tails, but I can say this is moderately interesting. Very fresh, with savory aromatics—I’m guess from whole cluster inclusion—in greater concentration than the underripe red toned fruit. Palette is zippy and grippy, the tannins being most of the finish as the flavors quickly fall flat. This is a nice picnic wine, but I will try to stick to Syrah and Grenache when buying from Mr Mahle. (876 views) | | | Tasted by ppandian on 5/24/2020 & rated 90 points: Fantastic! Spicy, fresh, vibrant and delicious.
Beautiful sense of the terroir.. (737 views) |
| By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Sonoma: 2021 New Releases (Jan 2021) (1/1/2021)
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| Pax Producer website
The goal of our winemaking is to discover distinct California wines that are that way because of a unique terroir, or a unique interaction of vine and environment. Therefore with respect to winemaking we do everything we can to do very little. However, while it is true that great wine is made in the vineyard, we know that we can make decisions that have impacts on the critical characters of a wine. The first step of good winemaking is to be very involved in the vineyards, afterward taking inspiration from the Rhone Valley in France, we’ve discovered a few critical factors to why our wines taste the way they taste: harvest timing, stem inclusion, native fermentations, judicious oak regimes, and patience [...] our goal is to make great wine and nothing else.
Each bottle matches the soil color of the specific vineyard with the color of the label (and, prior to 2014, with the cork wax). For instance, the white, chalky, limestone soils of the James Berry Vineyard merit a white Pax label, etc.Gamay Noir Varietal character (Appellation America)USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma Coast * Sonoma Coast AVA (Wikipedia)
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