#mounts vineyard

After my Grenache tirade last week, I had to pull one of these out. By now all of you are used to my rash over generalizations on wine, but still the Grenache thing stands. So many of them are just muddy, vague, too-glossy renditions of something pantomining at greatness. This is not one of them. This Mounts Vineyard Dry Creek Valley creeping up on 10 does indeed have some of that glossy…

Going back to Mounts and 2019 with aplomb. And such a brilliant wine. Deep and coursed, a light garnet in the glass with wide amber edges moving to clear at the rim. A nose salty and bright, but dulled down in rich amber greatness you can SMELL. Armpit loveliness and deep cherry dedication, it makes all things *Grenache* a withering testament to the sometimes-pinot-sometimes-syrah juxtaposition…

Clear light ruby with characteristic amber rim and enough tartrate build-up to mention. Big rich chubby sweet perfume in the nose, swollen and thick, with candied berry and lavish concentration. Possibly the flabbiest Grenache I have had from this producer to date: but tasting will tell. Ripe and gorgeous in the mouth, and the opulence of the nose is reflected. Jammy and unctuous, acid seems…