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Keplinger Wines

Some of the most aromatically beguiling California wines I tasted this spring come from the talented Helen Keplinger, who was just appointed as the new winemaker for Bryant Family Vineyard. Keplinger began her own label with the 2006 vintage, working with fruit from cooler, high-altitude vineyard that allows her to produce perfumed wines with complex, high-pitched aromatics. Although she's based in Napa, she doesn't buy Napa fruit. While all of her wines are blends except for the syrah, each comes from a single vineyard. It's Keplinger's 2008s that are the current vintage in the marketplace, but I also had the chance to taste them alongside the 2007s. Her 2008s are fruit-driven wines with expressive aromatics and plenty of palate presence, while the 2007s are even riper wines that will need longer to express themselves. The only bad news here is that quantities are tiny: Keplinger will bottle less than 700 cases of wine from the 2009 harvest. But the attention to detail here suggests that this would be a mailing list worth signing up for.

From Focus on California's North Coast (May 2011) by Stephen Tanzer

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