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The September 2022 Auction: Part 4
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"Deep ruby with purple highlights, the 2017 Champoux Vineyard is a stunning success with elegance and complexity bursting at the seams. Seductive blackberry essence, dusty plum skin, dark cherries and cassis waft out of the glass with delicate dusty floral tones, dried tobacco and graphite nuances. Medium to full-bodied, the wine is balanced with rich complexity and an elegant mineral tension before offering up a clearly delineated fruit frame compounded by focus, precision and finesse. At present, the wine has a pleasingly tannic edge and finishes with a mineral tension and red-fruited succulence that continue to evolve in the mouth. Simply stellar! Will Camarda, son of Chris Camarda, has taken over the management reins for the winery. After more than three decades of running the business, Chris is still very much involved with the winery, but much of the day-to-day operations now falls on the shoulders of Will. Will's hope for the future is to continually raise the bar and spread brand awareness for Andrew Will Winery. Although the winery has found success with the RhĂ´ne and Bordeaux varieties, Will is curious about experimenting with other varieties in the future. Year after year, the Sorella continues to be the brand's pinnacle effort in winemaking, and the 2017 bottling is no different. It displays an extraordinary wine of profound and complex character."
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"Deep ruby with purple highlights, the 2017 Champoux Vineyard is a stunning success with elegance and complexity bursting at the seams. Seductive blackberry essence, dusty plum skin, dark cherries and cassis waft out of the glass with delicate dusty floral tones, dried tobacco and graphite nuances. Medium to full-bodied, the wine is balanced with rich complexity and an elegant mineral tension before offering up a clearly delineated fruit frame compounded by focus, precision and finesse. At present, the wine has a pleasingly tannic edge and finishes with a mineral tension and red-fruited succulence that continue to evolve in the mouth. Simply stellar! Will Camarda, son of Chris Camarda, has taken over the management reins for the winery. After more than three decades of running the business, Chris is still very much involved with the winery, but much of the day-to-day operations now falls on the shoulders of Will. Will's hope for the future is to continually raise the bar and spread brand awareness for Andrew Will Winery. Although the winery has found success with the RhĂ´ne and Bordeaux varieties, Will is curious about experimenting with other varieties in the future. Year after year, the Sorella continues to be the brand's pinnacle effort in winemaking, and the 2017 bottling is no different. It displays an extraordinary wine of profound and complex character."
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