2012 Sine Qua Non Rattrapante Grenache Champagne with raisins and slightly off-dry

with raisins and slightly off-dry flavors--especially mangoes

truffle and smoke

often quite dominant in Ducru en primeur

"The 2001 Barolo La Serra is beautiful

with lovely focus and grip

2012 Sine Qua Non Rattrapante Grenache Champagne with raisins and slightly off-dry"A perfect wine any way you look at it, the 2012 Grenache Rattrapante comes all from the Eleven Confessions Vineyard in the Sta. Rita Hills and spent 33 months in 27% new French oak. My notes start and end with Wow. Giving up tons of black raspberries, peppery herbs, licorice, dried flowers and cured meats, its a massively concentrated, rich and layered Grenache that somehow manages to stay graceful, lively and fresh on the palate. There are roughly