Dirty and Rowdy, Mourvedre Old Vine Enz, 2019 so041522 french wine sale aging in older Burgundy barrels

aging in older Burgundy barrels

The tannins are present but polished

Built for the decade ahead

Eight months of barrel aging lets the wine's mineral tension and fine-grained tannins speak for themselves

lending the wine a distinctive mineral depth

Dirty and Rowdy, Mourvedre Old Vine Enz, 2019 so041522 french wine sale aging in older Burgundy barrelsThe Enz Vineyard is a piece of California history: dry farmed, own rooted Mourvedre vines planted in 1922 in the tiny Lime Kiln Valley appellation of San Benito County, with the site acquired by the Enz family in 1967. The limestone and granite soils and roughly 100 year old vines give Hardy Wallace some of his most distinctive, mineral driven fruit, and he handles it simply: whole cluster fermentation, native yeast, neutral 600 liter barrels, then