Heart Stone Vineyard 2021

SAXUM

Heart Stone Vineyard
2021

$383.53*

* Suggested retail price

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Product code
742577
Format
6 x 750ml
Listing type
Speculative
Status
Store Only
Type of product
Still wine
Country
United States
Regulated designation
American Viticultural Areas (AVA)
Region
California
Subregion
San Luis Obispo, Paso Robles
Appellation
Adelaida District
Varietal(s)
Syrah
Colour
Red
Sugar
Dry
Closure type
Cork
Producer's website

About this winery

Saxum is one of the hottest wineries in Paso Robles, which is saying something, since Paso is pretty well as hot as it gets in California these days. Of course Paso is 'hot' by virtue of being cool, and the coolest part of Paso Robles is the Templeton gap in West Paso, where Saxum is located. Here cool marine air streams in from the Pacific Ocean, creating a microclimate that is surprisingly temperate for Southern California. Saxum's James Berry vineyard is perhaps the supreme expression of...

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Tasting notes

The Heart Stone Vineyard is a small 7 acre vineyard planted on a gentle South slope of limestone and shale. With 8 different clones of Syrah, 4 of Grenache and 1 of Mourvedre, Saxum aims to produce a wine that is both compelling and complex. Typically co-fermented with the varieties together with a high proportion of whole clusters, producing a tannic and spicy wine that has great purity and complexity. This wine is age with very little new oak.

Press reviews

Jeb Dunnuck

95-97 points

August 2023 (Vintage 2021)

A lush, sexy, forward beauty, the 2021 Heart Stone Vineyard is based on 31% Grenache, 28% Syrah, 21% Graciano, and the rest Mataro and Petite Sirah, with the blend shifting slightly due to replanting in the vineyard. As with all the ’21s here, it has a vivid purple hue as well as a great perfume of sweet red and blue fruits, spring flowers, ground pepper, and underbrush, but it’s on the palate where this beauty really shines. Layered, silky, and opulent, it’s not yet bottled, but my money is on this drinking nicely right out of the gate.

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