Tried these two last night:
1. Preston Farm&Wnry VinGris DryCreekVlly (12.6%; 50% Mourv/30% Cinsault/20% Grenache; www.PrestonFarmAndWinery.com) 2021: Pale copper color; quite fragrant strawberry/spicy/cinammon/curry slight perfumed talcquite pleasant nose; lightly tart rather spicy/cinammon/curry/strawberry fairly bright pleasant flavor; med. spicy/strawberry/cinammon pleasant bit simple finish; an altogether pleasant VinGris but just that. $17.60 (Prima IlC)
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2. Castelli Nebb "Fosco" GreenVlly of RRV (14.2%) 2011: Med.light color w/ some bricking; rather tarry/licorice/pungent some Nebb/floral/violets/rose petal fairly pencilly/oak bit cedary/pencilly/oldRed slightly fading fairly complex nose; fairly tart/tangy some pencilly/oak bit Nebb/floral/violets/rose petal bit earthy/pungent/tarry some complex slightly tired flavor w/ light resolved tannins; very long light pencilly/oak some floral/Nebb/dried rose petal light road tar/licorice/pungent bit tired some complex finish w/ light gentle tannins; starting to dry out a bit on the palate but lots of interesting old Nebb character; reminds a lot of an older Gattinara than anything.
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More dildoparts from TheBloodyPulpit:
1. Preston is a wnry that has pretty much fallen of my radar. When they first started, I used to like their wines quite a lot. I usually stop in at the tasting room when I'm up in the DCV and have been a bit underwhelmed by the wines. But some 15-20 yrs ago, Lou got bitten by the bread making bug & sells it in his tasting room there. It is easily the highlight of the tasting room.
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2. The "Fosco" indicates that this was a darker Nebbiolo from younger vines. Whether this included early crop from BrentWalker's vnyd or not, I'm not sure.
The wine is clearly starting to fade but still offers up a lot of pleasure.
Tom