Grenache 2023

Tablas Creek Vineyard (hentet 17. okt. 2026): 2023 Grenache – 100% Grenache; appellation: Adelaida District Paso Robles; alkohol 14.5%. Om vinen (producentens tekst, engelsk): The 2023 Grenache is Tablas Creek’s fifteenth varietal bottling of the signature grape of the southern Rhone Valley. The wine shows the classic lift, red fruit, and spice of the Grenache grape , with remarkable freshness given the cool 2023 vintage. Smagsnote (producentens tekst, engelsk): A pretty nose of red licorice, coffee bean, berry cobbler, black pepper, and soy. On the palate, flavors of black cherry, baker's chocolate, plum skin, and bramble thicket. The finish shows mouth-coating texture and some fairly substantial Grenache front-palate tannins, with lingering notes of red fruit and licorice. Årgang og vinifikation (producentens tekst, engelsk): We use most of our Grenache in our Esprit de Tablas and Côtes de Tablas blends each year. However, we feel that this is a grape whose bright fruit, spice and acidity lends itself well to bottling as a single-varietal wine as well. Grenache seems to improve more dramatically with vine age than any other grape we grow, and although we didn't produce our first single-varietal Grenache bottling until 2006, we have made one most years since. The grapes for our 2023 Grenache were grown on our biodynamic and Regenerative Organic Certified™ estate vineyard. The 2023 vintage began with our wettest-ever winter, replenishing ground water and delaying budbreak. It continued with our coolest growing season in more than a decade, which combined with the late start to produce a harvest roughly a month later than most recent years, beginning in mid-September and not concluding until mid-November. Warm, sunny weather starting in October allowed the later-ripening varieties to reach full maturity. The exceptionally long hangtime and gradual ripening combined to produce fruit with deep colors, remarkable intensity, and noteworthy vibrancy. We believe 2023 has all the hallmarks of a blockbuster year. For our varietal bottling we as usual chose lots that emphasized Grenache's freshness and avoided riper lots that tend toward higher alcohols. The lots were blended in June 2024 and aged in neutral 1200-gallon oak foudres until bottling in February 2025.