2018 Epoch Creativity
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Saturated magenta. Intense red and blue fruit, floral, baking spice and vanilla aromas, plus a smoky flourish that builds with air. Alluringly sweet and seamless in texture, offering vibrant, oak-spice-accented blueberry, cherry cola, candied lavender, mocha and succulent herb flavors that deepen through the back half. Shows superb clarity and repeating florality on a very long, spicy finish framed by supple, even tannins. Aged in French oak puncheons, 67% of them new.
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The 2018 Creativity is a blend this vintage of co-fermented Graciano (66%), Grenache (18%) and Carignan (16%), aged 19 months in 67% new French puncheons. It offers pure scents of baked blackberries and blueberries with wafts of melted chocolate and purple flowers. The palate is full but silky, with surprisingly fresh acidity and a long finish loaded with floral perfume. 156 cases were made.
Bright straw-gold. Penetrating aromas of fresh citrus and orchard fruits, ginger and violet are complicated by an emerging mineral element. Juicy and concentrated on the palate, offering sharply delineated Anjou pear, nectarine, orange pith and floral flavors that show excellent clarity and mineral drive. The floral and mineral notes carry strongly through an incisive finish that shows firm tension and energetic lift.