Producer
Colgin Estate
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The 2022 vintage is robust and expressive, brimming with character and a clear sense of place. Mature vines ensure this wine is always structured but elegant and beautifully restrained in style. Ripe redcurrant and cassis dominate the nose with delicate hints of jasmine and smoke. A deliciously rich and fleshy baked plum tart flavour develops on the mid-palate with a herbal tinge of sage and rosemary. A very long and fresh finish prevent this from being overtly fruity, a seriously stunning wine.
The 2022 IX Estate opens with captivating aromatics. Cedar, tobacco, dried flowers, espresso, Mediterranean herbs and leather race across the palate. Vibrant and sculpted, the IX Estate is incredibly reticent at this stage. That should not be an issue in another few years' time. Like all the wines here in 2022, the IX Estate is on the understated side relative to most years. It could very well be one of the wines of the vintage.
Colgin's 2022 IX Estate—pronounced Nine Estate—is primarily Cabernet Sauvignon but also includes a fair dose of Cabernet Franc, plus Merlot and Petit Verdot. Picked well after the heat wave because of its location high on Pritchard Hill, it boasts stunning complexity on the nose: blueberry, boysenberry and loganberry, joined by sage, bay leaf, dusty earth and mocha. Full-bodied, it's tannic and firmly built, by far the most structural of Colgin's 2022s, but it does show a slight coarsening of texture on the lingering finish.
The 2022 vintage is robust and expressive, brimming with character and a clear sense of place. Mature vines ensure this wine is always structured but elegant and beautifully restrained in style. Ripe redcurrant and cassis dominate the nose with delicate hints of jasmine and smoke. A deliciously rich and fleshy baked plum tart flavour develops on the mid-palate with a herbal tinge of sage and rosemary. A very long and fresh finish prevent this from being overtly fruity, a seriously stunning wine.
This small town north of San Francisco has grown up to be one of California’s most famous wine regions. It is home to opulent Cabernets and sweetly-spiced Zinfandels, grown across many sub-regions including Stags Leap, Rutherford, Oakville and others. Cooling ocean fogs roll in from the Pacific at night and burn off in the summer sunshine, keeping the region cooler than you would expect for its latitude, and help produce some of the best Californian wines. Napa wines have the concentration and structure to age magnificently.