Wonderfully sweet, concentrated, thick wine with the integrated acidity to give it excellent definition and cut. Finishes quite dry and classic, with subtle persistence. I love the balance here between warm and cooler elements. Only 100 cases made.
These vines, ranging in age from 55 to 80 years, produced just half of a normal crop in 2016. Dense, juicy and youthfully imploded, with its tight dark fruit and rose petal flavors conveying a strong impression of energy.
(vinified with 10% whole clusters): Healthy dark red. Black raspberry, smoky minerality and a suggestion of roasted coffee on the nose. Plush, sweet and intense but showing more mineral grip and savory complexity than the basic village offering. Less easy...