Hands down, the 2011 vintage is our staff's favorite vintage right now. 2011 was a cool year, producing very elegant and long-lived wines. The L'Autre (grenache-blend) is especially silky and a great way to start off your holiday meals. The Sentinel Oak Syrah is smooth with some soft spices. The Estate Zinfandel is still powerful but with very soft tannins.

The 2023 Harvest is shaping up to be a similarly cool and late year, so we are looking forward to seeing how they progress. In the meantime, we are lucky to have some 2011 wines left in the library.

 

As Syrah specialists, at Terre Rouge we hold back some of each vintage of our top Syrahs in our wine library. Here is your chance to enjoy wines with age and beauty. We have tasted all three of these wines recently and were pretty amazed!

 

20 years old and still rocking! Our Sentinel Oak fans know how well this wine ages.

We had this wine open along side the 2008 ASCENT at our recent ASCENT celebration. It was fabulous!

From our two highest syrah sites with both granitic and volcanic soils. Bill calls this wine "Ascent's child" as it has some of the same fruit but with less new oak treatment.

 

The Easton slogan for our Zinfandel program is "Power and Finesse" - big wines that are also elegant and long-lived. Aged in French oak, like all of our wines, then bottle aged further, the tannins are smoothed out and the complexity of the wine comes forward.

 

This pack has one vintage of our organically farmed "E" Zinfandel from our vineyard in Fiddletown, as well as two vintages of our Estate Zinfandel from our Shenandoah Valley site, which we generally call "the big boy". 

 

 

The TERRE ROUGE L'Autre, our blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre, has always been Jane's favorite. It is elegant and easy to match with a variety of foods. The 2013 was featured in Food and Wine magazine.