The color was red enough to look more like a light bodied red wine than a typical Rose. Quite a change from the Tempier Rose we had just finished... The palate was very spicy and meaty. Ryan said that lit was like a watered down Cayuse God Only Knows Grenache. I don't usually try to describe a wine by saying it's similar to another wine, but in this case, that's just about covers it... This wine had a big mouthfeel that you wouldn't expect from a Rose, and a long finish. In many of Jay Miller's Cayuse tasting notes from 2003 and 2004, he referenced his first barrel sample of the God Only Knows and made the comment (jokingly, I'm sure) that it may not be long before Manfred Krankl of SQN would be known as the Christophe Baron of the Central Coast... Well, it took me about 4 years after Jay's comment... Too funny...

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