Epoch is a Paso Robles wine producer with critical charitable targets, actually it has a wine that’s fully devoted to them. The Gratitude program is a collaborative venture that has generated over $43,000 for charitable causes throughout three vintages to date, together with assist for victims of the LA wildfires and the central Texas floods. (Gratitude is only the start of the vineyard’s charity work, which has generated over half 1,000,000 {dollars} in assist.)
Right here’s how the wine has come collectively:
The story of Gratitude spans three vintages and three continents. The primary Gratitude (2018 classic, launched in 2020) was a Barossa Valley Grenache made in collaboration with Michael Twelftree of Two Arms Vineyard in Australia. For the second and third vintages, Epoch winemaker Jordan Fiorentini and Anne Charlotte Melia of Château de la Font du Loup in Châteauneuf-du-Pape planted a block collectively at Epoch’s Paderewski Winery.The 2 chosen a heritage CdP Grenache clone, selected own-rooted vines educated within the conventional head-trained gobelet model, and co-planted Clairette Blanche (a white Rhône selection) with the pink Grenache to imitate the sphere blends of historical southern French vineyards.
We received a pattern of 2021 Gratitude (92% Grenache, 8% Clairette Blanche), aged in impartial oak. $20 from the sale of every bottle is donated to the Paso Robles Salvation Military..
Hearty and smoldering, this wine jumps out of the gate with highly effective notes of anise, bittersweet chocolate, and lowered blackberries in syrup, making for a decadent — and boozy, at 15.1% abv — entree to the wine. Because it develops the wine takes on extra of a cherry and raspberry character, with latent flavors of brewed tea and tobacco leaf. A late-game contact of tomato leaf provides a very savory part, although the end brightens up with some sweetness and a return to plump, pink berries. All of this coalesces because the wine fades away; the very last thing to go is a whip of licorice sweet — sweeter than I anticipated.
B+ / $75
2021 Epoch Gratitude Paso Robles
USD75
