2019
50cl
DP
£70.63
vintage
portfolio
2019
50cl
DP
£70.63
2019
12x50cl
DP
£847.64
2019
75cl
DP
£113.40
2019
6x75cl
DP
£680.42
Broking
2019
6x75cl
DP
£577.22
Horseshoe 2019 is a wine of real structure and weight but also great concentration and energy – a combination of power and persistence that is very true to the wines from this site. The soils here are around 8 million years older than the Alpine vineyard, being composed of Monterey shale, a brittle, friable, shale so light it feels like balsa wood in the hand. Its structure makes it very easy for the roots to penetrate so Kevin and Jeff are finding exponential gains relative to vine age from this vineyard. This 2019 has a mineral smokiness on the nose, not unlike an aroma of slate, then thyme, yellow peach and fresh lemon, orange blossom and aromatic white flowers that mingle with a salty smoky stoniness on the palate. Superb.
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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