54% Carignane 26% Zin, 20% Mataro. Popped and poured. Gorgeously zingy Carignane dark cherry and blackberry Zin fruit combine but are going mano-a-mano with American oak coconutty scents. Perhaps that’ll integrate with air. On the palate there’s beautiful fruit/acid/tannin balance. Nicely concentrated. Should be really good with pasta con broccoli rabe.
UPDATE: This was a hair better on night 2. The oak had settled down a bit and the beautifully pure fruit was out front in the limelight.
54% Carignane 26% Zin, 20% Mataro. Popped and poured. Gorgeously zingy Carignane dark cherry and blackberry Zin fruit combine but are going mano-a-mano with American oak coconutty scents. Perhaps that’ll integrate with air. On the palate there’s beautiful fruit/acid/tannin balance. Nicely concentrated. Should be really good with pasta con broccoli rabe.
UPDATE: This was a hair better on night 2. The oak had settled down a bit and the beautifully pure fruit was out front in the limelight.
Nov 6th, 2023
Intersting expression of Evangelho. Despite low % new, i did find the Am. oak intrusive and seemed to mask the high toned floral side of the vineyard. Structure was well polished, fine tannin, a touch too much here from a site that, to me, its best expressed naked. Young of course, still crushed pizzas and went down easily.
Intersting expression of Evangelho. Despite low % new, i did find the Am. oak intrusive and seemed to mask the high toned floral side of the vineyard. Structure was well polished, fine tannin, a touch too much here from a site that, to me, its best expressed naked. Young of course, still crushed pizzas and went down easily.
Jan 23rd, 2021
Contra Costa County, San Francisco Bay, California, USA
