Of all your wines, I’ve found the older ones (for me, that’s been the 2011 and some of the other older vintages, back to 2001) have a very fine, easily-disturbed sediment to them. The more recent vintages - 2013 through 2022 so far - seem to throw a sediment that is more like a paste, or that has a more adhesive quality to it, obviating the need to stand the bottle up prior to decanting/drinking. That 2004 Notorious was standing up for 3+ weeks prior to opening and decanting last evening. It was nothing short of wonderful, throughout the evening.
Hi Jim - I sent you some DMs which, if I understand the forum’s view count correctly, haven’t made it to you. Could you double check for me? Thanks - Kyle
Just took delivery of some Wolves Above blueberry wine that I purchased before BD16 (Unfortunately). Is there a bottle code to figure out which version I have?
2006 Estate Old Vine (PGC library). Really, just a beautiful wine. Opened and decanted for two hours, sitting back in my 58 degree cellar. Poured back into the bottle, at which point I poured a glass . . . and spent the next half hour just smelling the wonderful nose on this wine. Palate follows through quite nicely. Again, just a gorgeous wine.
Just had this recently and thought it showed very nicely. Truck with 2006 was both picking fast (we picked our entire vintage of about 160 tons from 10/1-10/6) and l working to overcome the late burst of warm weather that drove up sugars.
Could reinvigorate the seemingly dead shitty 2007 OPN thread! We’ve been pouring that recently in the TR and it has shown beautifully. Lithe but with a darker tone indicative of that block.
Next wine club order is due and I’m looking to customize. Help me understand the difference in Freedom Hill clones. If I did say, two of each (Wadensvil, Coury, Dijon).
Exactly this. We spread club shipments over about 3 months to accommodate both shipping windows nationally and the reality of our infrastructure to have all the wine, shipping materials, coordination with our shippers and the physical space to pack everything.
