We love Jessup at our house. To me, Jessup is one of those wineries that does every varietal well, and they do a ton of varietals. Zin may be the best in the valley, their cabs and merlot are solid & their top tier cab blend and Merlot blend and stellar. This Rougette wine is brand new, so I had to try.
100% Grenache. The color is fairly dark as I believe they let the Grenache rest on petit Verdot skins for a time. This wine looks, smells and initially mimics a Russian River Valley Pinot. Very ruby red with a thin colored core. Aromatics of red gummy bears, strawberry O candies, rhubarb, herbal funk. After about 30mins, a candied almond note came out. Very crisp acidity at the front palate. Finish has cedar alongside cola and black cherry. On day 2, this smoothed out quite a bit and had more of those fleshy fruit skin notes and the acidity wasn't as prevalent.
A nice play on Grenache but this needs time. A Grenache for RRV Pinot lovers!
We love Jessup at our house. To me, Jessup is one of those wineries that does every varietal well, and they do a ton of varietals. Zin may be the best in the valley, their cabs and merlot are solid & their top tier cab blend and Merlot blend and stellar. This Rougette wine is brand new, so I had to try.
100% Grenache. The color is fairly dark as I believe they let the Grenache rest on petit Verdot skins for a time. This wine looks, smells and initially mimics a Russian River Valley Pinot. Very ruby red with a thin colored core. Aromatics of red gummy bears, strawberry O candies, rhubarb, herbal funk. After about 30mins, a candied almond note came out. Very crisp acidity at the front palate. Finish has cedar alongside cola and black cherry. On day 2, this smoothed out quite a bit and had more of those fleshy fruit skin notes and the acidity wasn't as prevalent.
A nice play on Grenache but this needs time. A Grenache for RRV Pinot lovers!
Aug 30th, 2017
Mendocino, North Coast, California, USA
