Where is that Wayward Pilgrim?

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Jeff Grossman

Jeff Grossman
I'm drinking 2004 Rocks & Gravel and it is just the best red wine I have drunk for months and months. Richly textured, darkberry fruit, a finish of stones stones dry and stones, just enough acids to curl the edge of your tongue a little.

Thank you, WayPil. (And tusen takk, Thor, whose cast-off this is)
 
I had an '05, myself, couple nights back, with similar results, and an '03 not so long before that. Takes some Rocks and Gravel, baby, to make a solid road, yeah, a solid road....
 
My last bottle of R&G is the 2014, and you better believe that I’m going to hang onto that baby until a most propitious moment arises. Otherwise I’ll just have to do my best Blanche Dubois impression.

Mark Lipton
 
My oldest R&G is 2009. I have multiples of every vintage since. For some reason, I thought it was a good idea to buy a mag of 2011 (Steve probably thinks it was!) Not even gonna speculate as to when that will be ready to drink.
 
one thing about 2011; we didn't pick our very first grapes that year until the second week in October. so things got ripe, at fairly low sugar, and the phenolic load (i.e., tannins) was on the low side, too, and the drinking window likely began significantly sooner for most wines. But , as they say, the proof is in the pudding...

cheers,

Steve
 
In response to this thread, I opened one of my four remaining bottles of 2012 R&G. A very nice wine. Like a great CdP made in the 80s or early 90s. Complex nose and palate, very reminiscent of a CdP, but without the current high ABVs or the heaviness of body. I should have bought more of this wine.
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
one thing about 2011; we didn't pick our very first grapes that year until the second week in October. so things got ripe, at fairly low sugar, and the phenolic load (i.e., tannins) was on the low side, too, and the drinking window likely began significantly sooner for most wines. But , as they say, the proof is in the pudding...

cheers,

Steve
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I also have several 750s. One of those will go into the drink-soon queue.
 
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