2021 Les Amis

Fragrant and expressive, with distinctive notes of kirsch and black walnut liqueur up front. Offers details of apricot preserves and salty black licorice, plus a touch of dried violet, all on a dense and fleshy frame. There's a lovely element of juicy acidity alongside toasted tobacco accents that linger. Grenache. Drink now through 2035. 150 cases made, 20 cases imported.

- M.A.W. (12/2024)

The 2021 Les Amis Grenache is spicy and wide, meaty and yet floral, with black tea, dried rose petals, graphite, roast beef crust, a hint of pastrami, blood orange and salted macadamias. The wine is shaped by charry oak (matured in barrique as opposed to Harris and Hillside foudre). This lends an altogether different angle to the wine, and I must admit, I quite like it. The oak is in the charry, bacon fat, pipe resin, tobacco spectrum, and it sits very well with the sweet, floral fruit. This is a very interesting wine here. 15% alcohol, sealed under natural cork and wax.

- Erin Larkin (04/2024)