2009 Dominus, Napa Valley Producer_Rene-Jean Dard & Francois Ribo
One of my summer jams (besides jelly) is a gin and tonic with this and a splash of their bianco vermouth (an off dry bottle of loveliness)
indigenous yeast
texturally full mid-palate that remains balanced by bright
In a great drinking window now
Grapes are foot-trodden whole cluster and fermented in two 600L open-top barrels with 20 days maceration
the wine presents a silky mid-palate transparency and fine-grained tannins
The marl here—compressed marine clay and limestone—has a way of imprinting the wines with a salty
Auchentoshan is one of the few remaining (and flourishing) representations from this region
resulting in a frame of fine-grained
necessitated rigorous berry sorting and resulted in a wine defined by its nerve and tension rather than massive weight
age-worthy wines
This stuff is on everyone's list of standbys