Promontory Napa Valley Red 2020 Size:Regular While Michel Coutoux and his

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THE MOTHER CLONE VINEYARD

Promontory Napa Valley Red 2020 Size:Regular While Michel Coutoux and hisDespite an eventful vintage, the wine initially imparts an outward calm that emanates, on the nose, from its cool minerality. A quiet reserve defines the approach, in which gentle traces of wet stone, and mist steeped forest softly draw the imagination closer to the surfaceand then, beneath it. This is an inward journey, a descent into the wine, which asks time in the glass for discovery of its dimensions folded within. Here, deeper down, a luminous