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I pull a little rose every year from the Grenache vineyards I work with; literally sticking a commercial kitchen sieve into the just crushed fruit and siphoning off clear must. This concentrates the Grenache portion of the M5 blend and gets us a little spring fling wine. This year the emphasis is on fling as the rose has a stupid amount of alcohol in it (ripe Grenache) and consumed in any context (picnic, staff meeting, aperitif) it will surely lead to orgies and drunken behavior. I don’t see it when I taste the wine but the laboratory I send it to for analysis assures me it has lots of potentness. I really like the wine but...... just to be safe, drink it really cold and with potential and current mates.
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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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