2020 Piedrasassi Rim Rock Syrah Arroyo Grande Valley

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About 2020 Piedrasassi Rim Rock Syrah Arroyo Grande Valley:

Stately and emphatic, the 2020 Rim Rock leads with a focused nose of violets, lavender, sage, spice, incense, and wild blackberries.

Tasting Notes:

The palate underscores the wine’s focus with concentration and a gratifying combination of fruit purity and elegant tannins.

Harvest Date:

2020

Winemaking Notes:

Like past vintages of Rim Rock, the very detailed nose and sense of poise and energy characterizes the wine, but the 2020 vintage offers more concentration and a generous texture on the palate at an earlier stage.

The Story Behind The Winery:

Piedrasassi nevertheless cultivates grapes and grain in the Central Coast of California. Through bread and wine, their endeavors show and tell the stories of this unique region and its people.

In the vineyards and fields, their family’s winery and bakery, the approach of work with a reverence for place and a responsible hand. They seek to celebrate the innate beauty of each harvest.

They primarily cultivate and vinify Syrah, a variety with which winemaker Sashi Moorman has worked for over two decades. Today, the viticultural heritage of the Northern Rhone and the pioneering ethos of the Central Coast equally inform his engagement with Syrah.

Their Wine:

Their points of interest within the greater Central Coast are found in its remarkable east-west transverse valleys, shaped by an era of tectonic contortion and upheaval.

Here, geologic time stands on its head: diverse soils of varying epochs are often entangled. Receptive to the daily rhythms of the Pacific’s cooling winds and pervasive fog, these valleys and, in particular, their constituent hillsides, are host to some of California’s most compelling terroir for Syrah.