There’s an easy charm to its red berry fruit
but a completely different soil
making it approachable earlier while still promising decades of aging potential
this 2006 offers earthy depth and firm tannins softened by time
Cuvée Le Caractère M is their prestige bottling—100% Chardonnay from the oldest vines (planted 1964)
Flying Cloud, Cabernet Sauvignon Paso Robles, 2022 Tellier 102224 There’s an easy charm toFlying Cloud is the second label of veteran San Luis Obispo winemaker Stephen Ross Dooley, launched in 2003 with his wife Paula to offer approachable, food friendly bottles from California's Central Coast. Stephen cut his Cabernet teeth in the early 1980s at Louis M. Martini in Napa, and the Flying Cloud Paso bottling channels that classic schooling: hand sorted, de stemmed fruit, gentle daily pump overs over a four week ferment, basket pressed, and