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Wine Details
Price:
$18.00 per bottle
Description:
It is rare for a Grenache to be described as “big”, but this 2004 vintage certainly breaks the mold. With strawberry jam on the nose, this wine’s rich texture and creamy, vanilla oak compliment the flavors of black currant and blackberry. The grapes for this wine were harvested the same day as the grapes for our rosé, and the pressed rosé skins were added to the primary fermentation, yielding a finished wine of deep color and ripe flavor.
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Varietal Definition
Grenache:
Grenache Noir is the world’s most widely planted grape used to make red wine, sometimes made into a stand-alone varietal, frequently as a Rosé, but most often as a backbone of red blends. Its strength is its ability to grow in arid and windy conditions. It’s particularly suited to warm coastal regions of California, Spain and France. Grenache-based wines tend to be high in alcohol, with attractive fruit qualities in youth and a sweet berry character.Used as a component in some Northern Rhône reds, nearly exclusively for Rhône Rosés and as the primary component in nearly all Southern Rhône red blends, Grenache is probably most notable as the base varietal for Chateauneuf du Pape, Cotes du Rhône and Gigondas. In spite of its fame coming from French wines, Spain is most likely this grape’s origin.
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