Law Estate Wines 'Aspire', Paso Robles, California, USA 2021

Description

Jeb Dunnuck 96

This wine exudes luxury. A wine of power and opulence, Aspire is made up of all but one block of Syrah grown on the property, with a beautiful lift from 13% Grenache. Housed for 22 months in 68% new French oak, it bestows impeccably integrated oak spice, vanilla, and clove, with concentrated primary blackberry, sweet black cherry, plum and blueberry fruit. There is tremendous complexity in this young wine showing hints of leather, graphite, cracked Szechuan pepper, with an almost villainous crimson core. Supple acidity and ample velvety-soft tannins accentuate the luxurious mouthfeel as the wine glides across the palate. The finish is long and sumptuous, with a peak in fresh acidity from Grenache, giving the power and density of this wine an effortless perception. 

The hyper-expressive dark fruit of blackberry, blueberry and fig is cloaked in rich sage, black pepper, clove and cola. Aspire elevates with a freshness shining through, in the dark crimson glass. French oak adds a vanilla and charred bacon component to its juicy, full-bodied structure. The bold finish cradles a sweet pipe tobacco, spice and dark chocolate that feel luxurious and reinforcing. Hedonistic is the appropriate word while sipping Aspire, and will culminate a pleasant symmetry and luxury now, and over the next 6 years.