Community Tasting Note

• ohne_musik Likes this wine: 94 points

  July 17, 2018 - This is a wow wine. Striking in so many ways. Color is very light, transparent ruby-garnet - and captures light like a precious gem. Nose is elegant - wild strawberry, warm soil, dried flowers. In the mouth, it’s the most elegant, lithe Grenache I’ve ever tasted - delicate wild strawberry, more dried flowers, leaf matter, assertive acid, thrumming baseline of cinnamon/clove, crushed rocks, super refined tannins that caress like raw silk, and an impressive, attention grabbing finish. Layers of pretty dark fruit start to appear after a couple hours - blackcurrant and huckleberry. 94+
  
  Day 2, has closed up a bit, exhibiting a firmer profile, with more aggressively grippy tannins and less fruit. Would recommend drinking soon before it shuts down, or waiting 10+ years...

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• ledocq commented:

  7/17/18, 10:48 PM - I've asked folks who know about Spanish grenache if this will age and no one seems to have a definitive answer. I've been keeping some of the 2012 to answer that question. I suspect it's going to be very good in 10 years. Thanks for the note.

• ohne_musik commented:

  7/18/18, 9:48 AM - I think it's got the acid, fruit, and structure to last years... although who knows, it might still not be open in 10 years time. Joe Mannekin at K&L compares it to Rayas, which of course can age for decades... Let me know how your 2012s are in 2026 ;)

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