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| GlenLyon
Clan Notes - Summer 2003 |
| We're
still pouring our wine in "The Best Damn Tasting Room in the
Valley!" right across from Kenwood Winery on the corner of Hwy
12 and Warm Springs Road. We're one of six wineries in the tasting
room, we all pour each other's wines and have a lot of fun...particularly
on Saturdays when all the winemakers are pouring. If you're in the
area, and you'd like to know which days Squire's working (we all alternate),
just call the us @ (707) 833-0032 and we'll let you know. Come on
down!
Our fourth Syrah release to date, the new 2001 GlenLyon Estate
Syrah, is now available and is getting rave reviews by everyone
including our Clan! Every grape came from the vines at GlenLyon
and made into wine on the Estate. We aged it here, cellared it here
and even stored it here. The wine is elegant, feminine, supple and
harmonious with overtones of red raspberries, vanilla, almond and
cassis with, what we feel, is a perfect balance of fruit, tannin
and alcohol. (It's definitely GlenLyon's most "Dangerous"
Syrah to date. "Dangerous" because you'll find yourself
staring at an empty bottle before you know it!) There was less produced
in this vintage than last and it will sell out sooner rather than
later....
We just finished bottling 207 cases of our 2002 Hog Wilde Chardonnay
and 90 half-bottle cases of our new Estate Syrah Port. They are
both wonderful wines and, obviously, extremely limited. You Clan
Members will get first dibs....
We also just signed a long term contract for five tons of award-winning
Chardonnay from Parmelee-Hill Vineyards in Carneros. 2003 will be
our first year making Chardonnay from Parmelee-Hill fruit and we're
quite excited! You will be too in late 2004!
That's it. May your glass never run dry.
Squire
Fridell
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