2020
75cl
DP
£233.86
2020
3x75cl
DP
£701.56
2020 is a VHR built upon the mineral, elemental and non-fruit elements as much as it is the sleek and nuanced red and black fruits that traditionally mark this property. Crisp graphite notes combine with touches of lichen and forest herbs over crunchy small dark berry fruit, to give an image of a wine that is all about tension, pull, energy, nerve. The architecture of the wine speaks of those last days of harvest, when the fires were on everyone’s mind, exposed seams of fine tannin that ought to soften and provide much interest with time. A fascinating, rather beautiful rendition of the vintage – a worthy and wonderfully contrasting follow up to the 2018 and 2019 vintages. How often is beauty created from challenging situations? 2020 will go down in history as a vintage that tested the nerve and emotions of growers in Napa and its surrounding area. The devastating fires caused many to drop fruit due to smoke taint – depending on where the vines sat, and when you went to harvest. Those that picked early and were fortunately located have produced wines that tell the story of an emotional vintage – dark, virile, structured and mineral wines that speak of a dry season, produced from small concentrated berries that offer more tension than richness, more drive than enveloping fruit. If Napa’s recent challenging vintages like 2011 and 2017 are anything to go by, this ought to emerge as a wonderful, dynamic, chronicler of a wine in time.
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