Abreu, Rothwell Hyde Vintage:2017

Abreu, Rothwell Hyde Vintage:2017Deep garnet purple colored, the 2014 Rothwell Hyde Proprietary Red has a very classic nose of cassis, black plums and black cherries with hints of unsmoked cigars, pencil shavings, camphor and underbrush with a waft of bay leaves. The full bodied palate is lively, velvety, generous and packed with fruit, finishing long and spicy.

Second wine of Valandraud

ashy soils of the Gravelly Meadow

Best from 2020 through 2035

It's a series that has set the bar extraordinarily high

the tannins are nearly buried by the fruit

There is muscle here but essentially this is a Charmes of refinement though the hugely long finish is explosive

it offers up a brooding nose of licorice

(Bouchard has been separately vinifying this parcel

A background application of wood is sufficiently subtle to allow the notably spicy and ripe yet quite cool aromas of both red and black pinot fruit

yeast extract

though it gains in volume and solidity on the palate

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