♦ 2009 Grenache ♦

Vineyard: McDowell Valley Vineyard
Appellation: McDowell Valley
Wine: 100% Grenache
Alcohol: 12.8%
Production: 170 cases




 

Grenache is an interesting wine that works great with many foods. It seems to have a bad reputation to overcome, primarily because of how the variety was treated 20 to 30 years ago in California. But we feel it can be a very versatile and interesting wine that will go with foods that you may not normally think to drink wine with such as Indian, Mexican or Asian food. Grenache has the pizzazz to work with such exotic food selections.

This Grenache is made from vines that are over 100 years old from the McDowell Valley Vineyard in Mendocino County. These gnarly, head-trained vines produce small quantities of grapes loaded with character.

This wine has deep flavors of raspberries and wild strawberries with complex exotic spiciness that includes the white pepper commonly found in this variety. It has a very aromatic nose with an intriguing interplay between exotic spice and many different fruit and floral elements. This dance of spice, fruit and flowers continues in the mouth and long into the finish. It is definitely a big wine with a good amount of structure. It will stand up to the heartiest of foods.

Gnarly vines produce gnarly wines!