Tasting Notes

WS95

A supple, open-textured and expressive red, dripping with licorice and black olive overtones to the dark berry fruit, coming together seamlessly on the gloriously expressive finish. Drink now through 2018. 164 cases made.

WA92

The 2009 No Girls Grenache fermented in concrete and was matured in demi-muids. Intriguing hints of cinnamon, mint and birch beer add accents to ripe, lightly-cooked strawberry in the nose, as well as on a polished, glycerol-rich yet buoyant palate. The impression is soothing and expansive up to a point, its fine tannins almost unnoticeable; then it’s as though one has crunched down to the strawberry seeds and taken a sharper hit of mint and cinnamon as well as white pepper and toasted nuts, causing the wine to deliver a delightful, energetic ping as part of a long, infectiously juicy finish. Baron says he managed the canopy to keep the fruit relatively shaded or he would not have been able to retain such liveliness and primary juiciness in 2009’s growing season. I’d look for at least 4-5 years of satisfying bottle evolution.

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