Perfumed, sweet red raspberries, whereas Lowrey’s Old Eastern Block (below) has black raspberries. One senses that this Lowrey may be ready sooner than the Old Eastern Block, but make no mistake: there is a solid limestone chalk here. In fact, this Lowrey ‘Old Vines’ will age and morph on its chalkiness alone. Delicious! There is no greenness here, just solid, tight, black-peppery clay-chalky fruit. The tension from the higher acid and perfumed chalky message of the Lowry Vineyard is here. Bright raspberries flirt with cranberries and rhubarb. A slight kiss of integrated oak barrel. But really, this is all scintillating, textured, delicious red fruit.

A word from Mary: Ballerina does it again!

176 cases made.