Not a member of the Hahn family and I personally have no idea, but your premise about crop levels on grenache and how it relates to quality is an interesting one . . .
Grenache does want to grow ‘like a weed’ unless you work hard to make sure it doesn’t. This involves your watering regime, the rootstock and clone chosen, pruning, and trimming of ‘wings’ after veraison.
Hope someone from Hahn talks about this in particular . . .
Man Hahn should pay you commision for you answering everything. Now I’m even more curious if I just had a bad bottle of your offering. Oh well maybe I will make it out to cali at some point
hiya! I’m sitting in for our usual correspondent “Rooster Booster” today. Because well, I was foolish enough to let him go on his honeymoon. In other words, I am the official Hahn guy today.
Soooo, this wine is a tasting room only wine. it usually sells at around $25 bucks. The $12 price point represents what you might find our larger release items priced at.
Also, this wine was very limited production. All from our Hook vineyard at the Hahn SLH Estate. We have about 2.5 acres of Grenache that we initially planted as an experiment in 2005. Huge success. And we’re planting over 24 more acres in Hook.
Our Santa Lucia Grenache benefits from the long, cool growing season, gets very intense color, with white pepper and believe it or not blueberry notes.
This would be why I coulnd’t find any reviews. Outside of my just try it range but you are within my “Drive to on a day off” range. Perhaps I will try it in the tasting room.