the 2016 Harlan Estate reaches dizzying heights of profound beauty
This is a lovely and understated effort that should reward 5 to 7 years of upside development
A moderately toasty nose combines notes of freshly picked red and dark cherries along with plenty of earth and humus characters
The middle weight flavors are not as concentrated but they’re finer and more mineralinflected while delivering good length on the bone dry and linear finish
Soutard Size:12x750ml the 2016 Harlan Estate reachesFirm, strict, hard style of wine that is better on the floral, cherry, thyme and earthy, smoky nose than on the still, tannic, , crisp, palate. It's interesting that although they want to produce a modern, styled wine, this is really more in the old school, classic vein.