Wine Specs
Vintage
2017
Varietal
Grenache
Appellation
Monterey
Aging
100% French oak, all neutral
Residual Sugar
Dry
Alcohol %
13.7
Vinous
92
2017 Wrath Grenache, Alta Loma Vineyard
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This Grenache comes from the biodynamically managed Alta Loma Vineyard, just south of the Santa Lucia Highlands. Deeply colored for the varietal, this Grenache is intense, high-toned and elegant. The aromatics offer notes of pine forest, juniper, spice, earth and wet stone. The palate is powerful, structured, rich and direct with a long finish that includes noticeable, well-integrated tannins.
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
This Grenache comes from the biodynamically managed Alta Loma Vineyard, just south of the Santa Lucia Highlands. Deeply colored for the varietal, this Grenache is intense, high-toned and elegant. The aromatics offer notes of pine forest, juniper, spice, earth and wet stone. The palate is powerful, structured, rich and direct with a long finish that includes noticeable, well-integrated tannins.
Vineyard Notes
Planted in 2000, Alta Loma is a 246 acre vineyard just west of Central Ave halfway between Greenfield and King City on rolling hills just above the valley floor. It is biodynamically managed and grows merlot, pinot noir, syrah and two grenache noir clones: Phelps and Bonny Doon.
Production Notes
67 cases