Moving to the 2019s from bottle, the 2019 Grenache offers a slightly more floral and perfumed style, with kirsch liqueur, herbes de Provence, sandalwood, and licorice. This carries to a medium to full-bodied Grenache that has a seamless, layered texture, beautiful tannins, and a great finish. It's a more ethereal, perfumed, ultra-fine effort that will drink well for 15 years or more.
97 points, Jeb Dunnuck (Aug 2022)
Deep garnet-purple in color, the nose remains a little subdued, offering glimpses of sautéed herbs and graphite over a core of baked plums, stewed blackberries, and mocha, plus a waft of fragrant earth. The generous, full-bodied palate gives a lively backbone and plenty of lift, with fine-grained tannins and a long earthy finish. 395 cases and a few magnums were made. The 2019 Grenache is a blend of 79% Grenache, 11% Mourvèdre, 6% Syrah, and 4% Graciano, coming from Alta Mesa (Santa Barbara County), Larner (Ballard Canyon), Harrison-Clarke (Ballard Canyon), and Slide Hill (Edna Valley) vineyards. The wine was vinified using 65% whole cluster and aged for around 21 months in 50% new French oak barriques and 600-liter demi-muids and 50% used French barriques.
96 points, Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Wine Independent (Sep 2022)
The 2019 Grenache is blended with 11% Mourvèdre, 6% Syrah and 4% Graciano and was made using 65% whole clusters. Fruit comes from the Slide Hill Vineyard in Edna Valley, and the Alta Mesa Vineyard, Larner Vineyard and Harrison-Clarke Vineyard in Santa Barbara County. It was matured for about 21 months in 50% new French barriques and 600-liter demi-muids and 50% used French barriques. Deep ruby in color, it opens with savory tones of tar and loamy earth that give way to potpourri, cinnamon stick, prosciutto and black cherries. The medium-bodied palate is bright and juicy with fragrant fruits, fine, grainy tannins and bright acidity, and it has a very long, latent, spicy finish hinting at further improvement in bottle. Bottled on August 21, 2021, and tasted May 25, 2022, it will be released to consumers in the summer of 2022. 395 cases and a few magnums are available; it will be packaged and sold as a three-bottle set ($330), while magnums will be offered as a box set with the 2019 Andremily EABA.
95+ points, Erin Brooks, Wine Advocate (May 2022)
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