Clarendon Hills, Romas Grenache Vintage:2008 The wine is amazing expressive

The wine is amazing expressive now

It's a little more rustic

Jean-Louis and Gerard Chave opened a bottle of the 2003 Hermitage Blanc to give me an idea of how this vintage is aging

There is enough wood present to warrant commenting on though it’s not enough to endanger the clear expression of the pretty red cherry

there are just two barrels of this magical Pinot to go around

Clarendon Hills, Romas Grenache Vintage:2008 The wine is amazing expressiveThe 2008 Grenache Old Vines Romas Vineyard is brooding, dark and meaty, with licorice and crushed rocks, tapenade and leather. The 2008 vintage was record hot and dry, and there were long stretches of very hot days and hot nights, as well. Due to the low yielding old vines, the fruit was picked in the early days of the heat wave. Some of the older parcels got up to 25 Baum by the time they were picked, and the fruit was not used. What they did make