Lytton Estate Dry Creek Valley Primitivo Carignan

Stunning! Tasting so good with some tannin and acidity balancing everything. Baking spice, clove, plums, cocoa, cedar, fresh green herbs. So freaking good and big fruit flavor with balance. So few wines like this.

probably at peak now, nice fruit acid balance

Blackberry preserves, sweet tobacco & cured meat. Full & complex entrance but disappearing quickly from there. Medium tannins and acidity with ripe & juicy raspberry on the palate.

ready now...balanced wine good for an Italian meal.

I think this one could go a year or two more to soften up. Great wine now though.

Yummy. Pepper tannins fresh fruit.

A nice alternative for Italian (red sauce or beef dishes). A lot of acidity so it might work with a lemon/caper sauce with veal (Milanese). Cherry candy nose, strong tannin and spice evoking a Zinfandel but with less black pepper. Medium-long finish.

Really different wine. Eucalyptus in the nose. Blackberry and spice mid. Fairly firm tannins with a slight girly graphite finish

Great primitivo.

Rich had this 2 years ago