07 GRANGERVILLE

• BUY ONLINE! Cases Produced: 400 Bottle: 750ml

  Winemaker's Tasting Notes

  So take the Le Bon Climat and turn it upside down and you have Grangerville, very exciting stuff. Instead of the fruits in your face on the nose, herbs, truffles, bay leaf, tangerine peel, soy, cola, forest floor, dill weed, evergreen, slate, black tea, cola, soy and earth. The fruit is also there but reveals itself as an accent early on and comes forward the longer the wine remains open, three days later in some experiments, On the Palate you get tobacco, dill weed, mushrooms,truffles, forest floor, black tea, black licorice, clove, minerals, smoke, spicy red and black fruits. Again with all the fruits in the background. Color is medium to dark, purple, black. The palate is silk and the finish is extraordinary, with pure acid it's clean but lingers for several minutes with great ripe tannins. Maybe our greatest triumph of 100% whole cluster fermentation and maybe our greatest wine.

  Robert Parker Jr's Tasting Notes: 90+ Points

  Greg Linn’s love affair with acidity appears to have gone over the top with the 2007 Pinot Noir Grangerville Vineyard from the Santa Maria hills. Fashioned from 100% whole clusters, it displays a dense ruby/purple color. The proprietor believes this may be the greatest wine he has ever produced, and perhaps it will prove to be that in ten years’ time. At present, the acids are higher than most. It is a pure wine with plenty of interesting aromas, but it is virtually impossible to penetrate. I think it should turn out to be outstanding. Those who like pure native acids in their Pinot Noirs will undoubtedly rate is higher than I did.