Lindquist Sawyer Lindquist Vineyard Grenache 2017
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Jeb
Dunnuck
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Cool climate Grenache when grown, harvested, and hand crafted for balance, produces a layered, complex wine of intrigue. This aromatic, deeply colored red is multi-dimensional, intense yet elegant, with a purity of fruit, and brilliant cherry red clarity. It is enjoyable now with its lively fruit and is well match with a honey glazed ham or lamb roast. But a few years bottle age will bring bliss.
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Jeb Dunnuck
White pepper, red and black fruits, sappy flowers, and herbal notes all emerge from the 2017 Grenache Sawyer Lindquist Vineyard (there’s 20% Syrah in the blend) and it has a classic, cool-climate, California Grenache profile. Medium-bodied, beautifully polished, and elegant, with terrific polish to its tannins, it should evolve gracefully for 7-8 years.
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Wilfred
Wong
Grenache thrives in any warm, Mediterranean climate where ample sunlight allows its clusters to achieve full phenolic ripeness. While Grenache's birthplace is Spain (there called Garnacha), today it is more recognized as the key player in the red blends of the Southern Rhône, namely Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Côtes du Rhône and its villages. Somm Secret—The Italian island of Sardinia produces bold, rustic, single varietal Grenache (there called Cannonau). California, Washington and Australia have achieved found success with Grenache, both flying solo and in blends.
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.