Joshua Cooper - 2024 Balgownie Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon dad wine Everything is grown on sand

Everything is grown on sand and schist

punchy and the perfect pantry companion

Absolutely delicious

Pieropan are now in the their fourth generation of their grower/maker family and are well established as some of the icons of the region

Joshua Cooper - 2024 Balgownie Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon dad wine Everything is grown on sandDeep, inky garnet. A wine which immediately makes one sit up and focus. Refined and complex with graphite, sweet cassis, cedar spice, violet and rose, air reveals infinite nuance and detail and a briny, nori like complexity. The palate is flooded with wave upon wave of dark Cabernet fruit, braced by a strict but not overbearing tannic structure and refreshing acid, finishing with sweet violet and cassis, and a wave of perfume. The most refined of the