92pts Wilfred Wong

The 2019 TOR Chasing Windmills is an authentic Rhone-style red blend from Paso Robles. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of earthy notes, rustic spices, ripe blackberries, and oak. Try it with a slow-cooked lamb stew.

91pts Wine Advocate

A new wine, the 2019 Chasing Windmills Fulldraw Vineyard was made and bottled in Paso Robles. A blend of 59% Syrah and 41% Grenache, aged in 20% new French oak (mainly puncheons), it offers up scents of asphalt, crushed stone, black olives, ripe cherries and espresso. Full-bodied and not particularly tannic, it's supple across the palate, then tart and mouthwatering on the finish.

Winemaker Notes

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.

Blend:  59% Syrah, 41% Grenache