Yangarra High Sands Grenache 2020

High Sands Grenache is the pinnacle of our estate. Reaching deep within the sandy soil, Yangarra's prized 1946 old vines produce wines that balance intense powerand complexity with fragrance and beauty.Blend: 100% Grenache Noir The 2020 High Sands Grenache comes from a unique vintage: it was the lowest-yielding vintage ever made of this wine. The growing/ripening part of the season was cold, and lest we forget the global environment that served to shape us all, for better and for worse. The wine in the glass is so concentrated and tannic; it unfurls as it sits in the mouth and really displays its tannic fortitude with authority and focus. This is a wine that will live for an extraordinarily long time. The fruit is firmly in the pomegranate molasses, black cherry, exotic spice spectrum. It's more about its tannin wrap than its fruit core. Rating: 97+ Wild fermented. Open tops. Extracted dutifully across a 21 day window. Foudre and eggs for 11 months thereafter. This is powerful wine reigned in by sumptuous tannins, like matrix dots doused with spice and teeming across the mind's eye. More southern Rhone than Gredos, often the inspiration in these parts. Moroccan souk. Goa trail blazing. Darker, danker fruits, clove and assertive tannins.those gorgeous tannins, pulling the wine to prodigious length. Wow! Drink or hold. Wild fermented. Open tops. Extracted dutifully across a 21 day window. Foudre and eggs for 11 months thereafter. This is a wine of power reigned in by sumptuous tannins, like matrix dots doused with spice and teeming across the mind's eye. More southern Rhône than Gredos, often the inspiration in these parts. Moroccan souk. Goa trail blazing. Darker, danker fruits, clove and assertive tannins.those gorgeous tannins, trailing the wine to prodigious length. Wow!