Winemaker Notes

Blend:  59% Syrah, 41% Grenache

The 2019 Chasing Windmills shows the plushness and abundance of sweet fruit that you come to expect from Grenache-based wines from Paso Robles. This is seamless from front to back with a tremendous mid-palate richness and density to it. Packed with loads of blue and black fruits like blueberries, blackberries and black currants with hints of cumin, mint and cedar. This wine is extremely approachable now with an hour of air or so but should sail for several years in the cellar.

Grenache and Syrah have been our windmills for a few decades. We’ve traveled all over California in search of gold like argonauts of old. Or a better image, like Don Quixote we’ve suited up, jumped on our steads, set our eyesights to the horizon and charged. Our search almost ended in 2017, until we met another crazy who also chased windmills going full tilt, no let up. This brave man is Connor McMahon who planted his Rhone varieties garden, Fulldraw Vineyard, in the hills of West Paso.