A long and winding road from growing up in israel an artist s life of painting in paris helping to plant the renaissance vineyards in the 1970 s international wine sales and finally finding his way into winemaking at the very same vineyards he had planted almost two decades earlier.
Taken from granite wine.
It s not every day you get a chance to experience wines more than 20 years old.
We were simply blown away by this precious trove of wine that has been aging gracefully in the mountains of california.
Re released under the label taken from granite three cuvée were hand picked by gideon and are showing outstandingly right now the 1995 soleil the 1996 elegance and the 1997 village.
These well priced aged wines just re labeled and re released by noted california winemaker gideon beinstock originally came from.
Sierra foothills california united states.
The taken from granite project is owned by clos saron.
Taken from granite is cult wine in a slightly more literal sense.
Gideon beinstock has become known for his amazing clos saron wines but the history goes back much further than that.
One could go on and on but simply put wines like this are exactly why people age wine.
If you haven t experienced this wine you have no excuse.