Nose
Aromas of fresh lavender sprigs and crushed violet petals, savory herbs & resinous cedar fill the glass on the 2019 Tarragona.
Palate
The palate reveals warm cherry pie, fresh pipe tobacco, saddle leather, pomegranate seed, and a hint of cola. The vibrant finish lingers with blood oranges and ground cinnamon.
Growing Conditions
2019 will go down as the greatest cool-weather vintage of the decade, maybe even further back than that. Cool vintages produce excellent wines. Fruit hangs on the vine longer, developing more complexity, revealing more depth of character, leaner fruit profiles, and more prominent minerality in the finished wines. It’s like God copy-pasted the 2011 vintage, then erased all the problematic weather events that plagued us eight years ago. The 2019 vintage that our region has been releasing will be cherished now and for years to come, as they are lively and approachable at the moment, while possessing the litheness to age gracefully for another decade or more.
Harvest
Paper Street Vineyard, Willow Creek District
Winemaking
Fermented on native yeast, 30% whole cluster, on skin for 14-18 days.
Aging
Aged for 22 months in 265L French oak barriques, 30% new.