21 Santa Margarita Petit Verdot

100% Petit Verdot

I will never forget the first time I walked through this vineyard. While taking short, down slope steps and gazing at the steep inner mountain slopes of central Paso Robles County my attention was pulled to the ground. As if I were walking on some temperate beach, whole oysters the size of my hand lay strewn haphazardly as if the waves had left them after a storm. Closer inspection revealed their true nature… they were rock hard and heavy! This whole limestone-vineyard was littered with ancient, fossilized oysters!! This wine has classic, Paso area character with a rich, jammy palate and overt sweetness. But the site brings something all of its own to the table: a dusty, wet-stoniness and a foreboding, mature, dark greenness. It is simply an ancient landscape in a bottle!!