Taken From Granite Wine
It s not every day you get a chance to experience wines more than 20 years old.
Taken from granite wine. Gideon beinstock has become known for his amazing clos saron wines but the history goes back much further than that. A long and winding road from growing up in israel an artist s life of painting in paris helping to plant the renaissance vineyards in the 1970 s international wine sales and finally finding his way into winemaking at the very same vineyards he had planted almost two decades earlier. Taken from granite is cult wine in a slightly more literal sense. These well priced aged wines just re labeled and re released by noted california winemaker gideon beinstock originally came from.
Taken from granite cabernet sauvignon 750ml shows off all the aromatics and flavors you d expect out of a 20 year old cabernet cedar sandalwood dried cherries cinnamon clove a whiff of vanilla. Taken from granite claret elegance 1996 63 cabernet sauvignon 25 merlot 12 cabernet franc. All wines released under this label were made by gideon beinstock the owner of clos saron during his tenure as winemaker at renaissance vineyards. The taken from granite project is owned by clos saron.
Sierra foothills california united states. One could go on and on but simply put wines like this are exactly why people age wine.