Rudd Oakville Estate Red, California, USA 2011 Savoie toasty French oak

toasty French oak

graphite and brown spices

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this has a complex and sophisticated nose that delivers peach fruits and citrus

recovering old vines of local grape varietals

Rudd Oakville Estate Red, California, USA 2011 Savoie toasty French oakAlthough an infant, the 2011 Proprietary Red Rudd Estate has many of the same qualities of the 2010. Grilled herbs, blackberries and tar are some of the notes that take shape in the glass. The tannins are those of the vintage, as is the wine's mid weight personality, but at the end of the day, this is a great site and the resulting wine is striking in its beauty. Exactly how striking exactly it will be should be much clearer in another year or two. 94