Spiced raspberry, black tea, spring flowers, and dark spice. Aromatics of sweet red fruit, ripe currant, and vanilla bean, all equally integrated so as to present a complex wine in a coy, almost playful way. Palate shows restrained weight, with layers of texture and volume. A wine built of anticipation, it’s a wonderful start to our first ever Grenache vintage.
Labeled Appellation
Varietal(s)
100% Grenache
Vinification
Fermented in 100% stainless steel. Aging 16 months in 33% new French oak 500L’s.
Alcohol
13.9%
Cases Produced
165
Vintage Notes
The 2019 Tenor Grenache was crafted from a single vineyard, named Thunderstone, which is located in Washington State’s Royal Slope AVA. Farmed using sustainable practices, the vines were limited to one cluster per shoot for maximum concentration. After a warm growing season, they were hand-harvested in the early morning of October 11th, 2019. Upon arriving in the winery, each cluster was hand-sorted and berry-sorted. Fermented in stainless steel tanks for over three weeks, the resulting free run wine was then moved to three 500L French oak puncheons (33% new) for 16 months of cellaring. Three puncheons barrels were bottled (unfined and unfiltered) in April of 2021, resulting in only 165 cases.
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