BODEGA DE EDGAR 2010 TEMPRANILLO
PASO ROBLES 750mL
Born in Michoacan, Mexico, winemaker Edgar Torres has lived in the coastal town of Cambria, California since the age of 8. As it seems to happen to many people who live close to Paso Robles, he fell in love with wine and decided to make his livelihood in the wine business. Hey…can you blame him?!? He has worked with many of the superstars of the Central Coast, including Matt Garretson, Augie Hug, and Alta Maria Vineyards. Today, he is the assistant winemaker at Barrel 27, and works alongside one of our best friends, McPrice Myers (what a mentor!), when Edgar isn’t tinkering on his own wines. We sampled his latest releases a few months ago, and they really knocked our socks off! The intensity of these wines are rivaled by few here in the United States, and we suggest you check out what Edgar can do!Edgar’s Tempranillo comes from French Camp Vineyard on the hilly Southeast area of Paso Robles. While it is warm enough to fully ripen Tempranillo, this region of Paso is slightly more moderate than other parts. This means you get physiologically mature fruit that isn’t overripe. Aged for 18 months in a combination of new and used barrels, this wine has a crazy aroma of rhubarb pie, lingonberry, sweet applewood smoke, mint leaf, cinnamon, red licorice, camphor bark, coffee. The Tempranillo offers flavors of rich dried raspberry and cherry, baking chocolate, vanilla bean, and has fine and grippy tannins with a long, strong finish.
