Taken From Granite Wine
If you haven t experienced this wine you have no excuse.
Taken from granite wine. One could go on and on but simply put wines like this are exactly why people age wine. Taken from granite cabernet sauvignon 750ml shows off all the aromatics and flavors you d expect out of a 20 year old cabernet cedar sandalwood dried cherries cinnamon clove a whiff of vanilla. We were simply blown away by this precious trove of wine that has been aging gracefully in the mountains of california. It s not every day you get a chance to experience wines more than 20 years old.
Gideon beinstock has become known for his amazing clos saron wines but the history goes back much further than that. All wines released under this label were made by gideon beinstock the owner of clos saron during his tenure as winemaker at renaissance vineyards. The taken from granite project is owned by clos saron. Taken from granite is cult wine in a slightly more literal sense.
Re released under the label taken from granite three cuvée were hand picked by gideon and are showing outstandingly right now the 1995 soleil the 1996 elegance and the 1997 village. Taken from granite claret elegance 1996 63 cabernet sauvignon 25 merlot 12 cabernet franc.