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Wine Details
Price:
$20.00 per bottle
Description:
Usually blended with other Rhone varieties in France, the generous upfront fruit character and complex layering of flavors from the Thompson Vineyatd earns this varietal its own bottling every year. We consistently produce an uncharacteristically well concentrated, rich, ruby red Grenache. The 2000 vintage was an exceptional year for the Thompson Vineyard. Cold soaking the fruit for 36 hours along with a 14 day, open top fermentation expanded the extraction. An 18 month stay in French oak barrels, 25 percent new, toned the fruit character creating a wine of strength and grace. It is very aromatic with a fragrant, spicy nose of ripe raspberries, plums, candied dark cherries, clove, rose hip, mint tea, and an earthy peatiness that carries through to the palate. A mosaic of tannins supports the lively fruit and creates a supple, full body and lingering finish. Serve with herb crusted roast lamb, stuffed pork chops, wild game, or even an oak grilled, medium-rare hamburger.
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