Big Basin Vineyards
Wirz Vineyard Old Vine Carignane
Cienega Valley, Central Coast, California, USA
Im liking this wine more and more, great first Carignane release! Great fruit, lovely dark notes of gnarly old vine. More please!
Im liking this wine more and more, great first Carignane release! Great fruit, lovely dark notes of gnarly old vine. More please!
Gorgeous red-violet color, gravel and old vine on the nose, red fruit and plum on the palette, med+ acidity with a clean short finish. Very tasty, drinks great now and should age well.
90+ yr old vines from Historical Wirz Vineyard.
Gorgeous red-violet color, gravel and old vine on the nose, red fruit and plum on the palette, med+ acidity with a clean short finish. Very tasty, drinks great now and should age well.
90+ yr old vines from Historical Wirz Vineyard.
Dry tannic frozen strawberry, Raspberry, tannic Cranberry, lime rock ... boysenberry (red-violet)... no decant, bottle.
Other wine versions worth exploring as a winemaker; PetNat, Dry Sparkling rosé (possibly red, Thanksgiving) and a deep Rosé (Isabell Mondavi Rosé, Broc KouKou, deep, clarified red)...
Love this vineyards Carignan, every bottle is another journey (fruit & wine, not bottle variation, energy)... good juju, love it and gain more insight with every bottle (high energy red).
Synth/processed cork... semi-ok, think I might be more comfortable with Stelvin and upright, minimal synth contact (glass, neutral;hope, blind on aging potentials), completely understand packaging design high-brow consume-facing brand impression cork quandry (viva la Stelvin, though).
Thank you,
RB
Dry tannic frozen strawberry, Raspberry, tannic Cranberry, lime rock ... boysenberry (red-violet)... no decant, bottle.
Other wine versions worth exploring as a winemaker; PetNat, Dry Sparkling rosé (possibly red, Thanksgiving) and a deep Rosé (Isabell Mondavi Rosé, Broc KouKou, deep, clarified red)...
Love this vineyards Carignan, every bottle is another journey (fruit & wine, not bottle variation, energy)... good juju, love it and gain more insight with every bottle (high energy red).
Synth/processed cork... semi-ok, think I might be more comfortable with Stelvin and upright, minimal synth contact (glass, neutral;hope, blind on aging potentials), completely understand packaging design high-brow consume-facing brand impression cork quandry (viva la Stelvin, though).
Thank you,
RB
