Country: US / Thérèse Vineyards Victoria Denice Vineyard
Variety: Carignane California
Winery: Martin Ranch / Santa Clara Valley
This once common and now hard-to-find grape makes for a hearty wine, with earthy aromas of baked soil, composting rose petals, dried but not raisiny black fruit and rustic leather. Dried red cherry starts the sip, with more earthiness on the midpalate, including gravel and asphalt—a very interesting wine.