It has an air of restraint from the first impression of crushed roses and violets with some sappy, fresh and attractive leaves and succulent plant notes and plenty of finely fragrant spices, cocoa, blueberry and dried dark cherry.

Fresh summer fruit of strawberries, raspberries and red cherries tend to be the identifying qualities, however richer versions express darker fruit including black cherries (kirsch), cherry cola, leather and violets to name a few.

Quite ripe smelling with rich cherry fruit and a lot of density. The fresh palate is very mouth watering, with lots of strawberry and cherry fruit. It's rich but not at all heavy and is very balanced due to the proper structure and fine but clearly present tannin. Long, impressive finish

Medium red ourplish color. The dark fruit, sublime orange zest, minerals, red currant, wet granite, fresh herbs and subtle raspberry all merges into a lovely and astonishing nose.

Rich but not overdone. Excellent balance between old and new world styles. Black licorice and blackberry. Balanced for a full bodied wine.

Brambly, with hints of violet alongside dark blue and black fruits. Incredible purity of fruit on the body, this is rich and unctuous with integrated fine tannin and excellent balance. 

 Fine, balanced and pleasant syrah not trying to power through with bigness but rather saying more with subtle notes of pepper, leather, dark fruits. Gorgeous with wagyu.

We began working with a single acre of grenache on an undulating slope of Bien Nacido Vineyard in 2015. Last year, the resultant wine found it's highest form as a four percent addition to the 2015 Lillian syrah, the varieties finding their highest synergy and vibrancy as one. This year, the grenache demanded to be bottled alone. With all of the wines, from all varieties, we belive the highest achievemnet, the clearest marker of beauty is when the wine holds both intensity and levity in the same form. This w ine, of all we've ever made, may have gotten highest, done this best.