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| Drinking window: Drink between 2016 and 2022 (based on 6 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.2 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 30 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by klezman on 3/12/2023: Nice stuff. Wish he was still making Wind Gap. (717 views) | | | Tasted by elevwine on 9/24/2021 & rated 93 points: One of the best and most interesting domestic Grenache I have had. So bummed I have only one bottle left. (732 views) | | | Tasted by StainedGlass on 4/22/2021 & rated 92 points: I don’t think Grenache gets much better. Light bodied, savory with lightly ripe fresh fruit and refreshing acidity. Very good food wine. 13% abv. Wind Gap is no more. I don’t think Pax is making this wine. Too bad. (848 views) | | | Tasted by subwaysam on 3/10/2021 & rated 95 points: uniquely great. CDP was the jumping off point for this satisfying wine. Our last bottle had depth, some grenache fruit flavor and profoundness that this overachiever shouldn't have had. (862 views) | | | Tasted by elevwine on 2/20/2021 & rated 93 points: Pax Mahle seems to march to a different drummer. This is a light take on Grenache, light bodied, and bright and fresh flavors even after 8+ years. Raised in concrete eggs, this wine still has lots of bright red fruit (did not expect strawberry from a Grenache) accompanied by lovely floral aromatics like violet and and maybe a bit of lavender. Not what I expected when I bought for a steal, but so enjoyable. (887 views) | | | Tasted by brinko99 on 11/6/2018 & rated 90 points: Good showing... fruit has started to integrate, raspberry jam, loam. Fine acids, soft tannin. Yet, no real pop. Opened up over a couple of hours but could use more air. (1151 views) | | | Tasted by MotoMannequin on 12/3/2017: Medium garnet color, pop-n-pour nose shows mostly floral notes with some strawberries. Palate is tight, acidity with some spice, very tannic. Some air starts to loosen it up, sour cherries and pepper. Probably an in-between hop on this, losing its youthful fruit but not any tertiary development yet. (1676 views) | | | Tasted by Aravind Asok on 2/20/2017: Final bottle of a trifecta that has been decidedly subpar. Perhaps the group I got was damaged (see previous tasting notes), so everything should be taken with a grain of salt. Certainly the best showing of the bunch, but still nothing I have any interest in revisiting. Double decanted. On the nose: tart red fruit and a hint of va and stems. On the palate, a bit thin; more tart acidity and extremely drying and coarse tannins. Dump the rest. (1420 views) | | | Tasted by stubbie999 on 2/17/2016: Transitional. This has always been acid-driven, and remains so; right now the fruit is starting to pull back a bit, and the savory, minerally, earthy side is showing more. Intellectually very satisfying, but I think there will be more pure enjoyment down the road with some additional cellar time. The parts sure are nice right now, and it's tasty after a bit in the decanter, but it needs a bit of time to come back together and be all of a piece again. NB: Tons of sediment. (1863 views) | | | Tasted by pjhr on 2/14/2016 & rated 90 points: Decanted for 3 hours. Tasty red raspberry on the nose and palate with pepper notes on the finish with refreshing tannins. (1822 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 1/10/2016: Does elegance belong in Grenache? Every time I open a bottle of this wine I am surprised at how Pax has taken a grape that is usually in your face and exuberant, and created a wine of purity, grace and fine definition. The red fruit is there, with herbal overtones, but it never gets candied, never hot or overdone as can often happen with Grenache. Very satisfying as an aperitif and with dinner. (2094 views) | | | Tasted by cadamson on 10/9/2015 & rated 91 points: Medium bodied. Nice, somewhat candied, red fruit, with some floral notes. Almost pinot-like. Good acidity. (1808 views) | | | Tasted by jeffreylubowski on 4/7/2015 & rated 87 points: Medium red or even dark berries. Strawberry . cherry. Cola. A small sense of candied sweetness. A little tannin and a little heat which surprised me a little considering the wine maker and style. 13.75% which is hi for wind gap. I don't really think many new world grenache are made in this fashion. No barrel, old skool style. Good wine but probly my least favorite wind gap. (2240 views) | | | Tasted by henrygjeffreys on 1/28/2015: smells of cola bottles
lots of tannin though light body
fruity, elegant and perfumed
I love how some Cal grenaches have a Pinot quality to them
£33.95 (1633 views) | | | Tasted by rossi.wine on 1/26/2015 & rated 90 points: A little muted and not very expressive on the nose. On the palate a bit drying, and tight. Well balanced, good fruit and slightly spicy. Fine length. This should be given more time. 89-91 (2052 views) | | | Tasted by stubbie999 on 12/21/2014: Remarkable intensity given the relative lack of density and alcohol. Really mineral driven, with the pretty side of Grenache fruit showing, rather than the blowsy, cloying aspect. I would drink a ton more Grenache if there were more Grenache like this. Seems like this could continue to develop, but it's delicious now. (1810 views) | | | Tasted by Aravind Asok on 12/3/2014: My last bottle seemed off and I finally got around to opening another. Decanted and drank over about 5 hours. This took about 4 hours to really open up. At first there was essentially no nose (similar to the previous bottle), but after a while, there was muted red fruit and some earthy notes (I could agree with licorice). This is pretty acidic on the attack and there a lot of chalky tannin on the finish. It was fine with a burger, but it seemed really unbalanced without food. At the moment anyway, this is certainly not my style of Grenache, but given the drink-by dates, perhaps I'll wait a long while on my final bottle. On the other hand, this seems nothing like the wine described in the other notes...so perhaps all my bottles are just off. (1328 views) | | | Tasted by Aravind Asok on 11/14/2014 flawed bottle: Received this today...it was cooked. (1320 views) | | | Tasted by yofog on 10/26/2014: A light and graceful style with dark yet airy fruit and wonderful cracked black pepper notes. Elegant. I like it, but I'd have a hard time paying almost $40 for this when I could have much the same thing from Eric Texier for $18. (1983 views) | | | Tasted by Glarange on 9/16/2014 & rated 88 points: Bright cherry vibrant spicy.
Paired with Claire's meatloaf (1894 views) | | | Tasted by Pierre-Yves on 9/13/2014: Smells like Rosé wine. More like cherry candy. Doesn't have much connection with southern Rhone Grenache.. (1266 views) | | | Tasted by Omar Khayyam on 7/12/2014 & rated 85 points: wind gap (the barlow): Raspberry-licorice on the nose, both red and dark berries, no oak, some sweetness from the fruit. a rather big wine (I suspect contrary to the intentions of the winemaker) in spite of the 0 % oak regime. (1998 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 4/20/2014: Just a couple of weeks after this landed on my doorstep, I had to give one a try. On first opening it was all ripe strawberry and spice. I poured a glass, and let it sit for an hour while I made dinner. On retasting the spice character was accentuated, and some warm herbs were added to the mix. The tannic structure popped up with time, as a bit of a dry finish. There was no shortage of finishing flavor though, so some cellaring seems in order for further development and integration. Excellent showing for such a young wine. Half the bottle is on the counter, waiting for tomorrow night. I think air will do it good. (1529 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Murray III on 4/17/2014: This may be as close as I get to a Pobega, as this arrived on 4/10. I finished the Wind Gap Nellesen syrah last night, so decided to find another glass of wine and settled on staying with the Wind Gap new release theme. Open about an hour, a spicy aromatic, something that feels akin to an alcohol marker, although listed at 13.75% on the bottle, I'm having a challenge thinking this is what I am sensing. I enjoy the fruit here, a mix of strawberry and cherry, sitting in some herb and a rocky finish. After a couple hours open, the aromatic shows a flowery note but I still detect the same spicy note. The fruit profile has expanded with air, as watermelon and dried strawberry emerge. Then finally, a day later, and without a chill and really at room temp (call it 68), I'm looking for the aromatic from y/day. At room temp, I'd figure that alc note to blossom as there isn't any cool frame inhibiting it, but really there's none there. Pretty clean aromatic actually, as I think the floral and spice are more what defines the aromatic. As to the fruit, that dried cherry and red fruit profile from y/day is well anchored now and this gives the structure and palate tannin that brightens the wine. Heck, even a sense of soil mixes with the rocks in the finish. This is grenache in my style, and true to the Pax way of making wines on the lower register of things, yet not losing flavor or definition (akin to the 2012 Nellesen syrah I finished earlier this week). Dig it--solid and well made. (1548 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.windgapwines.com/Grenache Varietal character (Appellation America) - Read more about GrenacheUSAAmerican 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 CountySonoma Coast |
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