2014 Harmonic Souls
2014 Harmonic Souls
I saw Robert Plant and Alison Krause in concert once. Individually Plant, being the rockstar of Led Zeppelin and Krause, the sweetheart of bluegrass, you wouldn’t think to pair the two but amazingly, together they were obviously designed to harmonize. Their voices melted into one another creating a heavenly sound. Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon are on the stage now… individually, Cabernet is dark and complicated, while Sangiovese is bright and teasing yet together, another match-made-in-heaven; one lending the other flavors that are recreated into glorious explosions of toffee, black tea, dried plum, clay, raspberry and sage. The finish is like the final note of the melody, perfect unison, perfect harmony, fading ever-so-slowly away.
Blend: 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, Estelle Vineyard, Santa Ynez Valley AVA, 50% Sangiovese, Stolpman Vineyard, Ballard AVA
93 cases produced ~ 1,116 bottles
Turiya Wines 5th Vintage
Harvest Date: August 29th and September 1st 2014
100% Santa Ynez Valley AVA
Brix 22.3 - 23
14.1% Alc. PH 3.46
4 day cold soak
10 day low temperature, natural fermentation
Soft press, separating free run from pressed juice.
49 month barrel aging, one time used French Oak barrels.
Un-fined, unfiltered.
no bottle aging before release.
Hand bottled, hand waxed. 24k gold screen-printed bottles. Signed by the Winemaker.
Drinking window: now through 2026
A little extra:
As you may well know, I don’t do traditional. My blends are always just off the path of normalcy and include grape varieties that aren’t always brothers or cousins. Grapes from different regions mixed together create unique, one-of-a-kind blends. These blends of mine are only made once. I’ve never repeated the same co-mingling of varieties, instead I create something different the next time around. Because of that, as rare as Turiya Wines already are, the rarity of each bottling, each blend, is literally headed toward extinction. Do not hesitate if you love any of the blends at Turiya, once they are gone, they are gone forever.
