Community Tasting Note

• mkribar Likes this wine: 92 points

  June 3, 2022 - Right out of the bottle, this had a really pretty nose. Mourvedre being a normally long lived grape, I expected this to be tight-but not at all. Plum, bing cherry, and a sanguine/bacon fat element. Definitely fruit forward but also complex and with depth. 100% on brand for a CA mourvedre. On the palate, it's surprisingly plush: more of the plum, dark fruit, cherry. Still some of the sanguine character but more on the midpalate and finish. Medium tannin, medium plus acid. Just stunning.
  
  On day two, the cherry and plum are still there, but there's a floral/rose element poking out as well. Maybe some more depth on the palate, but otherwise it's largely unchanged.
  
  This reminds me of some of the brighter Dirty and Rowdy mourvedres (though ironically not the Enz, which I always found a little subdued). It has the same brightness, but in a more full bodied package.

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