2019
3x75cl
DP
£671.80
2019 Vine Hill Ranch VHR will forever sit alongside it’s preceding vintage as one half of a pair of almost perfect renditions of this remarkable vineyard. A shade richer and more profound than the 2018, the 2019 hails from the marginally warmer of the two years, though neither was punctuated by severe heat. Harvest was relatively late for this part of the world, finishing at the end of October after a five week pick. Yields were just about average. As it rises from the glass this is immediately complex, bright and deep with polished fruit, stones and mountain herbs all on display. It is a VHR that purrs at you from the get go. On the palate polished fruit notes combine with what Bruce would call Chaparral notes, a sort of mountain shrub aromatic that simultaneously smells like the forest and crushed stones. Structurally and in texture this all finesse, seductive cashmere tannins allied to natural freshness and tension. The wine offers up a glorious combination of intensity and elegance, the combination of really pleasurable fruit character mixed with a remarkable architectural framework that will repay extended aging in bottle.
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