Cool Carneros struggled to ripen the fruit this vintage, with the result that acidity is firm, and there's a grape-skin tannic tartness to the underlying blackberry, plum, root beer and cherry flavors. The wine is strangely attractive. It's not a hedonistic seducer, nor a cellar candidate, but a complex, dry red that will rise to the occasion while playing modest second fiddle to the food.
Cool Carneros struggled to ripen the fruit this vintage, with the result that acidity is firm, and there's a grape-skin tannic tartness to the underlying blackberry, plum, root beer and cherry flavors. The wine is strangely attractive. It's not a hedonistic seducer, nor a cellar candidate, but a complex, dry red that will rise to the occasion while playing modest second fiddle to the food.
Cool Carneros struggled to ripen the fruit this vintage, with the result that acidity is firm, and there's a grape-skin tannic tartness to the underlying blackberry, plum, root beer and cherry flavors. The wine is strangely attractive. It's not a hedonistic seducer, nor a cellar candidate, but a complex, dry red that will rise to the occasion while playing modest second fiddle to the food.
Cool Carneros struggled to ripen the fruit this vintage, with the result that acidity is firm, and there's a grape-skin tannic tartness to the underlying blackberry, plum, root beer and cherry flavors. The wine is strangely attractive. It's not a hedonistic seducer, nor a cellar candidate, but a complex, dry red that will rise to the occasion while playing modest second fiddle to the food.