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WTN: 2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks & Gravel

PostPosted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 12:39 pm
by David M. Bueker
2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks and Gravel - USA, California (1/10/2014)
I'm really not sure what to make of this wine right now. It's very good, but nothing like any vintage of Rocks & Gravel I have ever tried. There's a ton of up front fruit, but not in any jammy way. Then behind that there is more fruit. I'm not getting that herbal/earthy/stony complexity that I have gotten out of other young R&G vintages. It's just pure fruit. While I was drinking it I started thinking that if Clos Roche Blanche made a GSM blend it would be this wine. I'm going to keep my hands off of this wine for a year+ and see how it settles down. Overall judgement reserved - not because it was a poor wine (it's not at all!), but because it is so different from my expectations of the ESJ Rocks & Gravel.

Re: WTN: 2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks & Gravel

PostPosted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 6:50 pm
by SteveEdmunds
time it needs. It's still a bit disjointed after bottling this past Summer, and it's a pretty large-scaled wine. I'm pretty sure its depth will serve it well over the long haul.

Re: WTN: 2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks & Gravel

PostPosted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 7:20 am
by Patrick Martin
How are the 2011 reds from ESJs showing?

Re: WTN: 2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks & Gravel

PostPosted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:03 am
by David M. Bueker
The 2011 R&G was showing very young but very focused in July 2013. I have not had the 2011 Syrah in a year, so no useful data point.

Re: WTN: 2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks & Gravel

PostPosted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:17 am
by Patrick Martin
Thanks.

Are Steve's syrahs small production? Not many places seem to stock them and what's out there is usually just a few bottles, in my shopping experience.

Re: WTN: 2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks & Gravel

PostPosted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:39 am
by David M. Bueker
I am not sure of Steve's production quantities. I know there is not a ton of it.

Steve? Now I'm curious.

Re: WTN: 2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks & Gravel

PostPosted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 12:17 pm
by SteveEdmunds
Rocks and Gravel and Syrah are each just north of 200 cases per year. The Gamay is uneven because it's at such high elevation that we lose quite a lot, some years, to frost. Last few years it's been under 400 cases. Rosé has been around 400 cases. Heart of Gold only a couple hundred.

Re: WTN: 2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks & Gravel

PostPosted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 12:49 pm
by David M. Bueker
Reinforces my annual subscription to your Syrah!

Re: WTN: 2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks & Gravel

PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 1:30 am
by Patrick Martin
That is a small production, only around 2400 bottles of the Fenaughty syrah each year.