Wine Doctrine
2013

Keplinger Mars

Tasted 17 July 2016 Sonoma County · Moon Mountain District

PnP with red and purple berry fruit, raspberry, plum, wet slate/minerals, pumice stone/chalk, red dirt, herbs, and some alcohol. Not astringent as I thought it might be on PnP. Certainly a bit tight, but already showing…

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