Thank you so much!
Great note ! Glad I bought some !
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the 2021 Go Rick Red, which is delicious again
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Had another 2020 Chendawg II to kick off Easter dinner. Once again, an absolute delight, although we had this a bit too chilled at first and had to let it come closer to room temp (still a slight chill) to get all the kaleidoscopic elements of this. Still had the stunning contrast of bruised green apples and buckwheat honey against burning thyme and paprika and a sensationally clean rain water finish. Followed by a 1994 Lafite and â although itâs not really sensible to compare a Sonoma Chenin and a claret â the Chendawg II easily took top honors. Glad I have more; might keep them for a few years, but itâs going to be tough to keep them in the cellar.
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Thank you! It is such a wonder-full wine. Kate and I have a 2 case personal library of this one and I wish we had 10 (cases). It is a white wine I want to follow all the way.
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Hardy, do you have plans or anything in the pipeline for more non skin contact white wines?
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Greetings Marc,
Yes. We have 2023 Brosseau Chard, 2023 Brosseau Chenin Blanc, and 2023 Marianaâs Vineyard Chardonnay. Those will be rolled out starting with the Fall release and will trickle out over the next 12-18 months.
Our soon to be released (April 16th) 23 Full King Crab III is 15% skin contact.
Thank you!
Hardy
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Somehow, a year almost to the day since I last had it I pulled this wine. The juxtaposition of the Zinfandel brightness with the crazy quilt of other varieties creates automatic complexity, and then Phil arrives with a thundering bass line to introduce The Other One. Mourvèdre anchors the wine while the other grapes explore space and time.
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Awesome note. Havenât gotten to crack open any of my 5 points yet, and really trying hard to age some of them. Ironically (for me) I have an easier time putting the whites down to bed (except Chendawg II â holy moly is that just so joyous right now). Itâs tempting â given the lift and the curlicues on EWCY! reds when young â to think theyâre all to be consumed young. But I really donât think thatâs true. My challenge is keeping my hands off them long enough to prove it.
At the risk of sounding like a groupie, Iâll say it again: Hardyâs wines are just competing on a whole different plane. Itâs not that theyâre âbetterâ â itâs a different way of looking at what wine is supposed to deliver. And Iâll say this: if there is a problem of younger people thinking wine is for old people or stuffy or â and I think this is the real issue â limited, then EWCY! Wines go straight to that persuadable consumer and say âtry this. This is different. This is for you, tooâ.
When I assign points to EWCY wines they wonât often reach the scores of, say, perfectly aged first growth clarets (although one blew away an off-vintage Lafite last week)â or a GC burg by a name producer. Or a great aged Rioja. But to me they are something much more important than âbetterâ. They are different. Also, my wife thinks they are the bomb.
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Since we were not in the path of totality this was basically a mandatory selection for tonight.
So fresh, it is almost easy to overlook the foundational Mourvèdre. Darkness overcome by light. Perfect for eclipse day.
p.s. this reminds me a lot of the D&R âWear a Mask Redâ from a few years ago. I loved that wine.
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Two recent extradimensions:
2021 Dude Ranch Red
This is just as drinkable and easygoing as every Extradimensional wine tends to be despite being a little deeper and bluer in tone. I have no other notes on it except that I would like to acquire a dude ranch so I can have this on tap and tell my friends, âDude, have some Dude Ranch.â
2022 Old Vine Grenache
I have this vague sense every Extradimensional grenache inches just a wee bit closer to figuring out what it wants to be, and isnât quite there yet, but this one is the closest one yet to a moment like Lee Krasnerâs line in the Jackson Pollock movie, âYouâve done it, Pollock. Youâve cracked it wide open.â It is, for starters, confounding all my notions of what grenache is. The color is bricked and so pale you could read a book through a full glass. The fruit has plenty of gloss, but no glop, the texture slick and silky rather than plump - so, avoiding the tragic falls of so many a grenache. The flavors also avoid all the grenache cliches of kirsch and so on. I canât put my finger on exactly what they are, but it is sort of a through-the-looking-glass grenache like looking at the photographâs negative. I find myself wondering what would happen if you took a dollop of California pinot noir to plump this up the way they used to take a dollop of grenache to plump up pinot noir in Burgundy. It is in some sense a Burgundian wine with its focus on texture and perfume over body and fruit but it is also something else that I have no idea what it is.
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Dammit why didnât I think of this
YEAH! Thank you!!! 
Thank you so much.
Love it! Thank you.
Man these notes are amazing. Joy driven and bring a smile to my face. It reminds how great life can be when someone special does something super intentional and has the faith and belief to breathe life into their dreams for public consumption. Playing with karmic house money these wines are.
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Spring release is coming up.
23 Summer Salters III
22 Brosseau Grenache
23 Full King Crab III
23 Shake Ridge Mourvedre
21 Higher Love
22 Brosseau pinot noir
I Could easily fill a case of just summer salters, king crab, and shake ridge - 3 of my favorites. But I always have FOMO if Iâm not loading up on the magical red blends. What is everyone excited about?
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All of them.
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Ditto.
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Same. I wanted to swap out some reds for more king crab but I quickly realized that was an impossible task, so I left my shipment as is. I would have added an extra case of king crab if I werenât so full of wine already.
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I had the 2022 Full King Crab II earlier in the week, but was completely underwhelmed as I found it lacking both aroma and fruit. Didnât tie to Hardyâs tasting notes at all.
Not sure if I didnât decant long enough (only 30 minutes) or if the fact I filtered out all the âfloatersâ took something out of the wine. Luckily I have two more bottles to find out.
Hi Rick- Sorry to hear about your experience w/ the FKC II. We are happy to replace that for you.
Kate and I opened a 2022 FKC II two weeks ago (pop and pour at cellar temp) and were floored. It drank like white Rhone varieties grown in Chablis (in a good way).
We have noticed that the 2021 FKC I needs about 60-90min and then gets bonkers deep and aromatic.
Thanks for the note!