2016 | PharaohMoans | Grenache Paso Robles Westside

Brilliant purple. Blackberry, cola, exotic spices and potpourri on the deeply perfumed nose. Intense black and blue fruit and spicecake flavors are complicated by suggestions of candied violet and cracked pepper. Finishes impressively long and alluringly sweet, featuring slow-building tannins and lingering blue fruit and floral character.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Tasted from barrel, the 2016 Grenache (which was fermented with 5% to 10% stems) reveals lovely aromas of sweet red berries, dried flowers and white pepper. On the palate, it's full-bodied, expansive and youthfully chewy, with a ripe core of sweet fruit and a firm, spicy finish.

• Jeb Dunnuck: The 2016 Syrah Westside is inkier colored and offers a brilliant, bloody, blackberry and blueberry-scented nose as well as complex bacon fat, tapenade, bay leaf, and violets nuances. This is another terrific vintage that shows the pure, elegant, layered yet full-bodied style that makes the 2016 vintage so special in Paso Robles (and California for that matter). Made from 100% Syrah that spent 18 months in 60% new French oak, drink this beauty over the coming decade or more.

Producer Information

PharaohMoans winery is a partnership between John Schwartz, owner of Amuse Bouche in Napa Valley, and Chef Bryan Ogden, recipient of the James Beard Award for best restaurant 2003. With their combined 35 years in the wine and food industry, they have teamed up with winemaker Guillaume Fabre to create world-class award-winning wines with a distinctive signature.

The vineyards and the PharaohMoans winery are located on the West side of Paso Robles near the Templeton Gap, a breach in the coastal mountain range where the cooling ocean breezes temper the hot summer days of northern San Luis Obispo County, and the resultant temperature swing from day to night can be as much as 40 degrees. The soils of this area are also well suited for vineyards, with limestone, clay, and rock-shell creating a lean environment for the grapes.

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