Product Description
â??We received an incredible deal on this fantastic library wine from Pax Mahleâ??s Agharta and are passing the savings on to you! This wine was originally released at $90, the winery is selling it for $125 and weâ??re offering it for under $30! That’s over 65% off the release price, and over 75% off the winery’s current price! Only 146 cases were produced of the 2006 Agharta Black Label and unlike past vintages, this one is mostly Grenache and spent over 2 years in barrel. Smokey spice and juicy black cherry and raspberry â?” perfect for that summer burger on the grill! Only while supplies last!â? â?” Glen Knight, The Wine House (7/31/17)
FROM THE WINERY
The 2006 Black Label Agharta is a little different this time around. Different in that it is predominately Grenache rather than Syrah and different in that once this offer goes out, that will pretty much be it for this wine as our production is down 70% over the last couple of vintages. Only 146 cases produced and no matter how much you begâ?¦Iâ??m keeping someâ?¦this is the best one yet and I love it!
Created from the finest most age-worthy lots in the cellar, we have once again put some incredible juice into the bottle for your enjoyment. Up here on the Earthâ??s surface Mother Nature unleashed her wrath on our Syrah in 2006 and we didn’t get the quantity or quality of Syrah that we thought we needed to continue this project. On the flip side we produced some of the richest most concentrated Grenache we had ever tasted, so we took the leap of faith and kept it in Barrel for 52 months, added some of the most exotic Syrah we had from Richards Family Vineyard and Mountain Terraces Vineyard and what we got is one crazy little wine, different from the previous two yes, very different, but all the better for itâ?¦I cannot urge you enough to order your allocationâ?¦it is that good.
Tasting Note: Crazy swirling aromatics of exotic fruits (white/red/blue), tar, coffee, Rose potpourri, meat, smoke, spice and dark berries. Once you pry your nose out of the glassâ?¦it is addicting to smellâ?¦and take your first sip, you are rewarded with a very densely textured wine, concentrated from low yields and aging in large format French Oak and Stainless Steel barrels that allow the wine to reduce and concentrate over time while retaining freshness. Very ripe and pleasing fruit sensations fill your mouth while the spice and tannins are just enough to keep everything in play and help define this wine. Graceful while being extremely exoticâ?¦and dare I say itâ?¦. Hedonisticâ?¦
Blend: 85% Grenache, 14% Syrah, 2% Viognier
Aging: 52 months in 20% New French Oak, 50% Neutral French Oak, 30% Stainless Steel
ABOUT AGHARTA
â??It was 1999 and after years of studying wine, selling wine and drinking wine, my course was set and I was determined to become a Master Sommelier. But a fateful trip to France, and a mud slogged walk through one of the world’s most heralded vineyards and the dreaming started. How could I do anything other than walk the vines, muddy my boots and understand on a much deeper level the wines and the earth from which they were grown, the way only a vigneron can. A few months later after finishing up an assignment in Washington, DC, I took a rare day off to see a couple museums, within the first ten feet of my tour I stumbled upon the Pangea exhibit.
Before I knew it, I had a couple of (yet) unproven vineyards that had what I believed it would take to make some great Syrah, a business plan, a unique label concept based on Pangea and that underlying theme resonating through our focus. It wasnâ??t long before I found a â??money guyâ?? and the rest is as they say ancient history. Eventually on this â??journeyâ? I was able to create a wine worthy of the name Pangea. I bottled a 2002 and a 2003, but kept the 2004 resting in barrel so that once It was bottled it would stand above anything and everything we had bottled.
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