This is awesome stuff. Very very structured. Will age extremely well. The '05s single vineyard wines finally opened up last summer/fall with a few hours in the decanter.
These should be good to START (with the Vineyard Blend) once they settle down from travel shock. They’ll be good drinking in the summer/fall, but will reward your patience beyond.
These are among the most structured, tightly-wound PS that you’ll find. Really a nice example that allows you to compare PS terroir – see the red fruit in PaSo vs. the more brambly, denser Sierra Foothills fruit.
Been sitting on my birthday coupon waiting for something that SWMBO would forgi e me for buying despite agreeing not to buy wine for awhile. This definitely qualifies. I hope. Otherwise it’s the couch for me. 'Cause I’m in for one.
Medium-to-big fruit, but buried under tannins. These are really, really structured wines, almost (and rpm forgive my analogy) very much in the “old school” way that you used to have to set aside red wine for a few years for the tannins to soften enough to drink.
I tasted some of URSA’s 06/07 at D&D, and enjoyed them.
As with rpm, an unequivocal commendation from you puts me in for three! I’d heard of these ursa before, prob here on ww, as Corison class wines.
I’m looking for complex, ageable wines. Thank you! I’d never much before considered PS until woot conver(sa)tions. And much better value than Cabs Clarets and Burgundies!
They’re not Corison class (but really, what is?), but they’re quite nice wines, and a really superb value. They’re not as approachable or subtle as Cathy’s wines, but they are also extremely well-structured.