Bokisch Vineyards 2005 Graciano

- Overall rating

inky • dark • black cherry • spice • anise • powerful flavors • ripe berries • earthy • rich • smooth tannins • lingering finish • luxurious • full-bodied • balanced • good acidity • graciano • red

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From the Winery

We are dedicated to producing hand-crafted Spanish varietal wines that exhibit the true character of the grape. Our family ties to Catalonia, Spain are the inspiration behind our pursuit of growing Iberian grape varieties in California. Our goal is to have Spanish varieties such as Albariño, Graciano, Tempranillo and Garnacha roll off the wine lover’s tongue just as easily as other Spanish words embedded in our culture.

All of our grapes are estate grown and farmed with a conscientious outlook toward sustainability and organics while being irrigated by solar energy. Our vineyards are farmed sustainably, utilizing low chemical inputs and high biological diversity. The wines of Bokisch Vineyards are certified by “The Lodi Rules for Sustainable Winegrowing Practices” program, which requires third-party certification and a yearly auditing process of vineyard practices conducted by the non-profit organization Protected Harvest. Caring for our environment has always been one of the highest priorities at Bokisch.

Tasting Notes

This richly extractive wine is an excellent example of Graciano’s versatility. It is inky and dark with robust aromas of black cherry, spice and a hint of anise. Powerful flavors of a warm basket of ripe berries with an underlying earthy richness give way to unbelievably smooth tannins and a lingering finish. Luxuriously full bodied in the mouth, it is balanced by good acidity. This wine will continue to age nicely for 2-4 years.

About Graciano:

Graciano is thought to be the oldest variety commercially grown in Spain today. Its origins predate the arrival of the Romans, when Iberian tribes pressed and fermented their lovely Graciano juice in the old terraced hillside vineyards of the Rioja Alavesa. It is a richly colored, perfumed variety that commences the season by taunting the grower with a late start, uneven growth and poor yields. Perhaps, because of this, there is very little Graciano planted and even fewer bottlings that can be found. Graciano is being rediscovered in both its native land and in Lodi’s Mokelumne River Appellation.

Graciano? WineQ to the Rescue!

Sonadora

Mar 6, 2009, 1:28 AM

The nose on this wine really opened up over the course of the evening. At first I found sour cherry, tomato vine, earth, spice, licorice, red currants, and some funky mint. After an hour or so the nose opened up with fabulous dusty chocolate and brown sugar. In the mouth I got flavors of sour cherry, leather, blacker fruit than on the nose, earth, mostly black cherry, and other dark tart fresh fruit.

Read my full review on my blog, Wannabe Wino

Drink this one fresh, don't save or decant

dhonig

Nov 29, 2008, 12:55 PM

Night One A rich earthy smell first out of the bottle changes slowly to more fruit and spice after an hour or so in the glass. Red cherries and wild strawberries, asian spices and a touch of vanilla all overlay faint earth and mild mushrooms. Curiously, red fruit on the nose turns to darker fruit on the palate, blackberries and blackcurrants along with unsweetened cranberries. The darker fruit fades on the mid-palate as a bit of underlying earth joins the tart, even slightly bitter, cranberries. It all leads to a mid-length richly tannic finish. Very nice on Night One. Will it get better, or fall off, tomorrow? Night Two Fruits are darker and softer on Night Two. The cherries have gone from bright Bing cherries to riper black cherries. The tart strawberries are gone, replaced by sweet blueberries and mulberries. The spice is mostly gone, too. The vanilla still lingers. Most of the balance is gone, leaving a vanilla-loaded wooden fruit bomb, adding cloying brown sugar in the mid-palate and an overall sense of over-worked sweetness. This was a very nice bottle of wine on Night One, and a big disappointment on Night Two. Does that mean it's bad? No, not at all. It means it is a good bottle of wine made to drink fresh, not to decant for hours or cellar for years.