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Thursday, February 1, 2024 - Glassware: Grassl Cru
Prep: Pop n’ pour, followed over a couple hours

Opened this today to celebrate the 2022 vintage release.
Powerful yet inviting nose of flinty reduction and seashells, orange/grapefruit peel, spearmint, iodine, and saffron. On the palate the fruit straddles the line of yellow citrus and orchard fruit, with a nice backbone of saline minerality. There is a Graham cracker note and touch of vanilla on the finish from the oak presence, but this has settled down nicely compared to the first bottles I opened. Medium-bodied with great structure from its dry extract and mouthwatering acidity.

This wine can definitely benefit from further aging, to allow the oak to better integrate, but worth popping one open now if you have a few bottles. The somewhat astringent character the wine first had on release has dissipated, making this more open and enjoyable now without needing an extensive decant.

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