Standish, Relic Vintage:2021 mineral driven

mineral driven

Young wines never have it easy in vertical tastings

I also tasted Conterno’s first wines from his newly-acquired vineyard in Cerretta

cherries and earth

Standish, Relic Vintage:2021 mineral drivenThe 2020 The Relic Shiraz Viognier is made with fruit from the Hongell family vineyard in Krondorf, with 15% to 20% whole bunches in the ferment and 1% Viognier skins co fermented. This is the best Ive seen it. Theres something about the combination of the hot year and the diminished yieldsit has recoiled and recompressed the Viognier on top of and into the Shiraz and brought them into balance harmony. Beneath its floral and stone fruit guiles is a