2012 Sandlands Trousseau

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
I find the Sandlands Trousseau very specific to and allusive of Bohan-Dillon.

How enviably site-specific. Does the Hirsch PN from the same vineyard share these traits? If so, I should seek it out.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Last night we opened our first Sandlands, this very same 2012 Trousseau.

The wine may be the same, but the world isn't.

As we don't need Heraclitus to remind us.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

The changes aren't just water under the bridge.

 

[Levi Dalton]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
I find the Sandlands Trousseau very specific to and allusive of Bohan-Dillon.

How enviably site-specific. Does the Hirsch PN from the same vineyard share these traits? If so, I should seek it out.

Actually across the road, I believe, but yes.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Last night we opened our first Sandlands, this very same 2012 Trousseau.

The wine may be the same, but the world isn't.

Ain't that the fucking truth.

Mark Lipton

 

[Steve Guattery]

originally posted by MarkS:

BTW, if you can find it, try the Combe, Trosseau from Ballard Canyon in Santa Barbara County. Perhaps, a bit fuller and a little more site specific but equally charming.
Best, Jim

Yes, I'll second this.

And I'll third it. MarkS put me on to this one, which I found in Ithaca. It met with unanimous approval from wine drinkers of varying levels of disorderliness at one of our soup nights.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

This thread made me cry at my desk.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

But, hell, tears, I eat 'em for breakfast, this past while.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

So sorry. Unlike the impossibility of stepping into the same rivers, one can cry the same tears.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Levi Dalton:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
I find the Sandlands Trousseau very specific to and allusive of Bohan-Dillon.

How enviably site-specific. Does the Hirsch PN from the same vineyard share these traits? If so, I should seek it out.

Actually across the road, I believe, but yes.

Fittingly enough, this just got released today.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Sounds lovely, and almost identical abv as the 12 Trousseau.

 

[Levi Dalton]

A lurker informs me that the Hirsch Bohan Dillon Pinot Noir is not any longer sourced from the Bohan Vineyard to any degree. Apparently this has been true for a few vintages now. It used to be that there was some Bohan fruit in that bottling.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Perhaps that would explain its competitive pricing.

 

[Levi Dalton]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Perhaps that would explain its competitive pricing.

I don't believe so. It has always been thus.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Wait, there is no Santa Claus?

And I just found out about this stuff. Hadn't even tasted yet. Shoot.

 

[Levi Dalton]

Hirsch Vineyard not too shabby as a fruit source, of course.