WTN: 2012 Edmunds St. John Rocks & Gravel
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 12:39 pm
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.
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.