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Grape Varieties
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A one-acre, river-closest parcel at Scorched Earth. Deeper, more organic soil than the surrounding sand and cobble, grafted in 2016 from Syrah to a late-medieval Southwest-French field blend: many clones of heirloom Cabernet and Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec, Tannat, Abouriou, Fer, Ste. Macaire and Negrette. A full month on skins, neutral oak, unfined and unfiltered.
Vintages
Nate: “pure perfume, more an enveloping cloud than a liquid… it lacks the mundane aspects of fruit, acid and mineral that draw most wines to earth. It smells like a thicket or hedge; leaves dense with aromatic oils, ripe raspberry, …
Nate: “as Burgundian as these varieties can be — pale, limpid and ethereal. At first taste there appears to be no structure; one expects it to be short, but the wine is implausibly long, extending from an inexhaustible source of …
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