Clarendon Hills, Romas Grenache Vintage:2008 Well-balanced overall

Well-balanced overall

neither wine is produced

This is notably finer than the old vines cuvée if not quite a long or concentrated

the foudre was newer (they used it to ferment a white before)

airy and transparent as the stony influence of the site is easily seen through the red berry fruit aromas and continues onto the pretty

Clarendon Hills, Romas Grenache Vintage:2008 Well-balanced overallThe 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