Snake & Herring ‘Blue Monday’ Grenache/Mataro/ Shiraz Frankland River 2018 chateau-canon with silky tannins and lots

with silky tannins and lots of attractive fresh fruit

'Italian Beaujolais' strikes us as about right

This is part of Sanchez Romate’s range of older

choosing extended

fresh herb and iodine notes

Snake & Herring ‘Blue Monday’ Grenache/Mataro/ Shiraz Frankland River 2018 chateau-canon with silky tannins and lotsThe 2018 season was one of the best growing seasons for the past 20 years. An ideal spring was followed by a mild yet sunny summer which ripened all the reds deep into April without disease pressure. Crops were below average which led helped ripening and concentration of fruit flavor. The 2018 Blue Monday is defined by the raspberry and satsuma succulence of the Grenache; the Mourvedre adds a meaty, earthy mineral backbone and the Shiraz is high noted