$4,253
Sine Qua Non The Inaugural Eleven Confessions Vineyard Estate Grenache 2003 CA "The recently released 2003 The Inaugural (90% Grenache and 10% Syrah, the first vintage from the Eleven Confessions Vineyard) is a stunning effort. Boasting superb intensity and purity, it spent 38 months in French oak, and has taken on mind-boggling nuances and subtleties. It is a huge wine dominated by black cherry, blackberry, and cassis fruit, but also offering notions of plums, figs, soy, smoke, and roasted meat-like notes. The wine's enormous complexity, silky, full-bodied, voluptuous texture, and remarkable finish suggest it will last over a decade, but who can resist it now? It hits all the palate's and olfactory gland's sweet spots, a hedonistic and intellectual joy!" R. Parker, 99 pts. 08/07 6 bottles (owc)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-11-02
