Herman Story - On the Road Grenache 2017 (750ml) Xarello

Herman Story - On the Road Grenache 2017 (750ml) XarelloPicture Lewis and Clark as stars of a laugh tracked 90s sitcom: Clarks niece, a precocious kid from a Virginia tobacco farm, always getting into wild hijinks on the American frontier. President Jefferson promised wooly mammoths and damn it, shes going to find them, so she ditches her companions and lives off the land: wild honey, boysenberries, rain soaked chanterelles and peppered venison over an open fire. One day shes pelting Spanish troops with

Traditional winemaking in stainless steel vats

Dry and dangerously drinkable

Very pretty fruit and finesse

Light cherry with shades of pink rosé

spinach and strawberry salads

The Rosso di Montepulciano has a brilliant ruby red colour

and fresh cheeses

Vines are 30 years old on average

the plots are strewn with dry stones and dominated here and there by “capitelles”

A Single-Vineyard bottling from Madrona Hill Vineyard in the Chehalem Mountains AVA

and the reds are pure

although I think at this point the nudge goes to the 2019