Texas’s Heath Household Manufacturers is a high-end Texas wine operation, with wines sprawling throughout 5 totally different sub-brands. Right now we’re three of them, two underneath the Grape Creek model and one underneath Invention Vineyards, all of which have been offered collectively as a three-pack. (We missed the boat on that one.) The excellent news is that you could nonetheless get all three of them individually, which we are going to attend to presently:
2022 Grape Creek Invention Pink Wine Texas – Predominantly Petit Verdot, in a mix together with Cabernet Sauvignon. Fairly a shocking wine, heavy with currants and tart cherries, then pushing notes of cloves and ample darkish chocolate. The tannins listed below are nonetheless youthful and biting, giving the midpalate a peppery high quality, although the end ultimately retreats to notes of raisin and prune, ringed with allspice. Actually shocking for Texas juice. A- / $61
2021 Grape Creek Mosaic Pink Wine Texas – A basic Bordeaux-style mix, that includes the 5 iconic grapes. As dense and darkish wine that, once more, doesn’t really feel significantly Texan, undulating with flavors of cassis, darkish chocolate, caramel sauce, and — with time — hints of rose petal, orange blossoms, and the lightest contact of caraway. I can’t think about anybody tasting this wine and pegging it as something apart from a California mix, the wine missing the distinctly dry leanness of many bottles produced right here, as a substitute closely pushing its agenda of cocoa, raisin, and ephemeral florals. I assumed this could be a 15% abv monster, but it’s bottled at a mere 13.2% abv. I’m impressed. A- / $59
2022 Invention Vineyards P2 – The 2 Ps are petite sirah and petit verdot, which mix right here in a 46/54 ratio to create a monstrous expertise, dense with cassis and anise, darkish chocolate, and touches of prune. There’s clove within the combine right here, which pairs effectively with the chocolate overtones, whereas baking spices cling to the again finish. The wine is on the candy aspect, although that helps it work effectively as an aperitif, maybe much less so with that ribeye, because the juicy, raisiny back-end could have you ever dreaming as a substitute of dessert. All the identical: A- / $58
2022 Grape Creek Invention Pink Wine Texas
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