2022 Extradimensional Wine Co. Yeah! Grenache Old Vine Grenache

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  4/13/2024 - ohne_musik wrote: 92 Points

  Funky and joyous. A bit cloudy, halfway between a pinot and a rose in color. Grenache, through and through, with strawberry, a bit of stem, and a sense of rustic structure. Cosmic stardust sparkles and a crancherry finish that fans out in the mouth.

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  4/6/2024 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot wrote: 87 Points

  Decanted for an hour. Under ripe red cherries, pomegranate seeds, rose water, pine needles, juniper, dirt and yeast on the nose. The yeast note throws me off, and makes an otherwise interesting nose smell just a bit too dirty for my liking. Elegant, with a medium intensity of aromas. Things improve a bit on the palate, with flavors of ripe straberries, hops and mint joining the nose's pine and earth. Medium intensity of flavors. A constant stream of flavor, though it finishes pretty short. You are left wanting more.
  
  Medium body, medium acid and medium - tannin. A lot of people say this will age very well; and flavor wise, I think it needs a bit more time in the bottle. Structure wise, however, I am just not sure how long it will last. I say revisit in a year or two.

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  4/6/2024 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine:

  I have this vague sense every Extradimensional grenache inches just a wee bit closer to figuring out what it wants to be, and isn't quite there yet, but this one is the closest one yet to a moment like Lee Krasner's line in the Jackson Pollock movie, "You've done it, Pollock. You've cracked it wide open." It is, for starters, confounding all my notions of what grenache is. The color is bricked and so pale you could read a book through a full glass. The fruit has plenty of gloss, but no glop, the texture slick and silky rather than plump - so, avoiding the tragic falls of so many a grenache. The flavors also avoid all the grenache cliches of kirsch and so on. I can't put my finger on exactly what they are, but it is sort of a through-the-looking-glass grenache like looking at the photograph's negative. I find myself wondering what would happen if you took a dollop of California pinot noir to plump this up the way they used to take a dollop of grenache to plump up pinot noir in Burgundy. It is in some sense a Burgundian wine with its focus on texture and perfume over body and fruit but it is also something else that I have no idea what it is.

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  3/29/2024 - jreis Likes this wine:

  Popped and poured at cellar temp. Cloudy pinkish light red color. Beautiful sweet strawberry fruit and this intriguing aroma of a clean Northern breeze. Just reminds me of those lovely summer cold fronts that clear out the humidity and refresh everything. Lovely sweet strawberry fruit with good mouth puckering acidity and savory salt and herbs on the finish. Words aren’t doing justice to how intriguing and delicious this wine is.

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  3/12/2024 - Bjweiss Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Despite 500 some odd bottles to choose from, I keep finding myself gravitating to these Extradimensional bottles. I’m just so intrigued by them, and I’m a sucker for aroma which these wines deliver unlike anything else in the cellar.
  
  Tonight’s wine is the 2022 Old Vine Grenache. The wine pours a pale rose color, really unique. Immediately aromas build and leap from the glass. Starts with a bit of a fruit punch-like aroma, but with a few minutes of air deepens to something more earthy, maybe even grassy. Its awesome.
  
  On the palette the acid is just perfect, and there’s more structure here than the color would imply, suggesting a good life ahead in the cellar. There’s fruit and mineral drive in the wine, and it’s really enjoyable. My wife turned to me after the first sip and said, “what is this?!” “Grenache, I reply.” “I REALLY like it,” she follows

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