Asteries Vintage:2008 offering impressively concentrated and sharply

offering impressively concentrated and sharply delineated flavors of sappy red fruits

Asian spices

truffles and wood smoke over spice cake

up to and including the 1993 vintage

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Asteries Vintage:2008 offering impressively concentrated and sharplyFrom proprietor Jonathan Malthus, this single vineyard wine emerges from 80 year old vines on limestone that survived the devastating frost of 1956. Black cherry and blackcurrant fruit with some licorice and truffle are all present in this dense purple wine. Youthful and loaded with minerality and tannin, this is another infant at age 10. Forget it for another decade and drink it over the following 25 30 years. The final blend was 85% Merlot and 15%