Clarendon Hills, Romas Grenache Vintage:2008 we tasted through mini verticals

we tasted through mini verticals of the estate and McCrone Vineyard Pinot Noirs from 2013 - 2017

Jean-Louis and Gerard Chave opened a bottle of the 2003 Hermitage Blanc to give me an idea of how this vintage is aging

and compared with their older vintages

it was not enough

Clarendon Hills, Romas Grenache Vintage:2008 we tasted through mini verticalsThe 2008 Grenache Old Vines Romas Vineyard is brooding, dark and meaty, with licorice and crushed rocks, tapenade and leather. The 2008 vintage was record hot and dry, and there were long stretches of very hot days and hot nights, as well. Due to the low yielding old vines, the fruit was picked in the early days of the heat wave. Some of the older parcels got up to 25 Baum by the time they were picked, and the fruit was not used. What they did make