Dirty and Rowdy, Mourvedre Old Vine Enz, 2019 hide-from-pfs Champon remains composed

Champon remains composed

Not the blockbuster of a great vintage

between 600 and 1

Aging potential runs to 25 years and beyond

450 feet up on the Sonoma side of Mount Veeder in fractured volcanic rock

Dirty and Rowdy, Mourvedre Old Vine Enz, 2019 hide-from-pfs Champon remains composedThe Enz Vineyard is a piece of California history: dry farmed, own rooted Mourvedre vines planted in 1922 in the tiny Lime Kiln Valley appellation of San Benito County, with the site acquired by the Enz family in 1967. The limestone and granite soils and roughly 100 year old vines give Hardy Wallace some of his most distinctive, mineral driven fruit, and he handles it simply: whole cluster fermentation, native yeast, neutral 600 liter barrels, then