These are my favorite vines on the estate. Its a Spanish grape, Garnacha, that made its way to Catalonia, Garnatxa, and then over the Pyrenees into the southern Rhone valley of France to become Grenache. From there, by ship to America where it found a home here in Paso Robles. So far, every wine that has impressed me in Paso has had at least some grenache in it, (well, outside Dave's Zin). Some examples you ask?
Yeah, all the heavies, and the list kind of goes on as well, so me thinks its safe to say that Grenache just might become the king
are all heavy grenache wines, and our climate an
d soils pretty much match up, well besides the galets, so there you go, we might be onto something. Which all backs up idea that Rhones should be the backbone of the Paso wine scene. Napa built its reputation on Cabernet Sauvignon, and climate wise, I'd have to say that you can make better Cab in Napa. But our Rhones are unmatched.
The 2007 grenache we pulled off the vineyard is by
far the best wine I made for the vintage, so I'm paying close attention to these vines this year. Even spent some time yesterday pulling off buds from the cordon bottoms. You don't want these suckers taking up valuable vine nutrients and water.
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