2019
75cl
DP
£143.40
vintage
portfolio
2019
75cl
DP
£143.40
2019
6x75cl
DP
£860.42
En primeur
2017
12x75cl
EP
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Floral and finely etched bittersweet fruit, rosehip, autumn raspberry and wild herbs, complex and sophisticated aromas that have shades of Vosne about them, albeit with a savory, floral top note that is all about this tiny section of the Alpine vineyard. Fermented with 100% whole clusters it possesses great tension and grip, the tannins finer but also more present than the Horseshoe. Saline and mineral, with fabulous inner energy driving it along, chiselled minerality and notes of blood orange zest on the finish. Supremely refined and transparent this is less showy than Horseshoe, but no less intense or impressive. A bottle watched over several hours was constantly in motion...
Kevin Harvey’s Rhys Vineyards has built up a near cult like following in just a decade of releases. His bottlings of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Syrah from both the Santa Cruz Mountains and now also the Anderson Valley in Mendocino are rightly seen as amongst the very top echelon of wines produced anywhere in the United States.
Everything about these wines speaks of attention to detail and a deep commitment to making great wine. From purchasing uncoopered staves of the finest French oak a full four years prior to cooperage, to the vast underground purpose built winemaking cellar, no detail is left to chance. In the often steep vineyards, vine density is extremely high and as a result farming is entirely manual and very labour intensive. In the winery, vinification is carried out at a micro-level in tiny 4ft square vats: fermentations are native and everything is gravity-fed without pumping, fining or filtration. In essence, the wines are given kid gloves treatment, and then aged in almost neutral French barrels, so better to promote the site specific characters of the vineyards in the portfolio.
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