Mendocino, North Coast, California, USA
Second bottle, retasting nine months later.
Second bottle, retasting nine months later.
Oct 20th, 2019Dense purple-red, highly extracted pigment. Plum, briar, and blackberry notes in nose with a whiff of butter and cooked spinach. Blackberry flavor, cherry-plum and saline finish with a hint of prune. Somewhat coarse tannins, mostly seed tannins, eventually emerge in finish. Like mixed fruit? For the first two hours, this drinks as a rustic wine, not very grapey in character or wine-like in style but good to drink nonetheless. Tastes light in acid and alcohol (14.2%) so does not taste like a big style, somewhat unusual for a Cali Petite Sirah. Lightly salted, lightly fermented fruit juice hits closest to the mark. Not fancy, just yummy. After two hours, it begins tasting like a wine - acid, alcohol, tannins, more integrated flavor. Plum cherry and blackberry flavors still dominate, but otherwise balanced. Decant several hours basically.
Dense purple-red, highly extracted pigment. Plum, briar, and blackberry notes in nose with a whiff of butter and cooked spinach. Blackberry flavor, cherry-plum and saline finish with a hint of prune. Somewhat coarse tannins, mostly seed tannins, eventually emerge in finish. Like mixed fruit? For the first two hours, this drinks as a rustic wine, not very grapey in character or wine-like in style but good to drink nonetheless. Tastes light in acid and alcohol (14.2%) so does not taste like a big style, somewhat unusual for a Cali Petite Sirah. Lightly salted, lightly fermented fruit juice hits closest to the mark. Not fancy, just yummy. After two hours, it begins tasting like a wine - acid, alcohol, tannins, more integrated flavor. Plum cherry and blackberry flavors still dominate, but otherwise balanced. Decant several hours basically.
Jan 24th, 2019
