"Sexy, smooth, medium-full body, with red fruits and spice kick"
Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard har et køligere mikroklima. Det muliggør et senere høsttidspunkt, med dybere farvepigmenter og en enestående kompleksitet til følge.
Jonathan Maltus har tidligere både arbejdet med Syrah/Shiraz i den nye verden, og Cabernet Franc i den gamle. Her har han for første gang muligheden for, at blande dem sammen til én helhed.
Druerne er håndhøstede, og udbyttet er holdt på et minimum. Efter en dobbeltsortering er vinen vinificeret på store egefade, og efterfølgende lagret på franske barriques.
Roy Piper posted on eRobertParker
93 POINTS – Sourced from southern Napa in the foothills, this is half Cab Franc, half Syrah. Easily, hands down the best Syrah/Bordeaux varietal blend I can remember. Sexy, smooth, medium-full body, with red fruits and spice kick. Can drink now and over the next 7-8 years, imo. 350 cases made, about 60 available. Don't knock the Syrah part, it seems to work really well with the Franc!
Doug Wilder posted on wildernapavalley.com
91 POINTS – A: Savory, animale, with hints of mocha, blue fruits - shows drying grain and blossoms with airing. P: Somewhat lean at first but forms a well-defined theme of resonant fruit and mocha on the finish. I: Well meshed black and red fruits show more with air yield a nice, velvet-like texture.
Decanter Magazine
FOUR STARS – Lush plummy nose. Very rich, suave and textured, without being too heavy or extracted. Quite good acidity and length. Stephen Brook
Jeff Leve posted on thewinecellarinsider.com
92 POINTS – Produced from 50% Syrah and 50% Cabernet Franc from the Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard, the wine displays cassis, fresh herbs, ground black pepper and coffee notes. Soft and elegant in style, ripe, but not over the top, the wine finishes with blackberry liqueur sensations and ample freshness. 14.6% Alcohol.
Frank Melis Wines
With only 350 cases produced this “different” blend has turned lots of heads already. On the nose this wine offers touches of raspberry and flowery aromatics. On impact you’ll encounter delicate touches of toasty vanilla, ripe sweet berry fruit and more raspberry and a touch of chocolate. This well-balanced wine offers great depth, tons of flavor both on the mid palate and well into the long finish, which offers nicely balanced almost silky tannins.
K&L Wines
Jonathan Maltus, owner of Chateau Teyssier in St-Emilion (one Bordeaux's first "garagistes" decades ago) is making his foray into California wine with the newly-released World's End label. The Wavelenth is a blend of Syrah and Cabernet Franc from the Sugarloaf Mountain in the Napa Valley foothills. What a savory, meaty blend! This wine has the blue and red fruit that both grapes can express, with lots of spice, fresh brewed coffee and a meaty, peppery character. Well-integrated tannins, and a fresh, ripe palate show that while Maltus may be on his own wavelength with this blend, it's one we'll be pleased to join him on.
Dean & Deluca
While one of the newer California wineries, World's End's winemaker Jonathan Maltus is no stranger to the art of making great wine. He's most known for his efforts at Bordeaux's Chateau Teyssier and now he's here, in the Napa Valley, showing us what he can do. The '08 Wavelength is a blend of Syrah and Cab Franc and provides a smooth texture with notes of big, deep red fruit and a touch of spice thanks to the Syrah.It’s one of the most compelling blends I’ve tasted in awhile. 355 cases produced. - Kerrin Laz, Wine Director
Stephen Tanzer's Int. Wine Cellar
POINTS 90 – A 50/50 blend of syrah and cabernet franc from a cool site: Good full medium ruby. Very reticent nose hints at blueberry, kirsch, licorice and violet, plus a whiff of smoked meat. Dense but pliant, even if the black fruit flavors are a bit youthfully stunted. Very ripe and broad but the tannins are a bit dusty and dry. Today this doesn't yet come alive, but it would appear to have all the elements to make a very good bottle.
Wine & Spirits Magazine
POINTS 92 – Jonathan Maltus of Château Teyssier in St-Emilion is releasing the first vintage of his new project in Napa Valley, World's End. This blend, half cabernet franc and half syrah, is more than a clever midpoint between his home base and his ex-Australian project. Grown in the cool hills southeast of the city of Napa, there's a fragrant logic to this wine that makes the blend compelling. It's fresh and bright, the purple richness of syrah checked by the edgier details of cabernet franc's tannin. That tannin seems to open up the flavors of the wine, bringing out mineral notes and red tones in the fruit. Firm and complete, this blends tension and richness together in a delicious red for steak frites.
World’s End – Den gamle verden møder den nye
Engelske Jonathan Maltus er først og fremmest kendt, som en af rebellerne i Bordeaux. I midten af 1990’erne var han blandt den håndfuld af innovative producenter i Saint-Emilion, der begyndte at fremstille de såkaldte garagevine. Det var kostbare og eftertragtede vine som Château de Valandraud, Tertre Roteboeuf, Quinault l’Enclos og single-vineyard vinene Le Dôme og Le Carré fra Maltus’ eget Château Teyssier. Alle er de ultimative vine med maksimal fylde og frugtkoncentration.
I 2008 igangsatte den stræbsomme Jonathan Maltus et nyt eventyr i Napa Valley. Under navnet World’s End udsender han nu stærkt limiterede enkeltmarksvine med navne som ”Good times, bad times”, ”If Six was Nine”, ”Wavelenght” og ”Crossfire”. Alle er navngivet efter titler på legendariske rockklassikere, som Jonathan er opvokset med.
De mange forskellige kloner af Cabernet Sauvignon, der anvendes til vinene, kommer alt overvejende fra Andy Beckstoffer historiske vinmarker, To Kalon og Missouri Hopper i Oakville. Jonathan Maltus opkøber dog også lidt Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc og Syrah nær højdedragene ved Sugarloaf Mountain.
Ifølge Jonathan er den vinøse stil overvejende fransk, og stærkt inspireret af hans garagevin-ideologi. Druerne macerere ved lave temperaturer for at farveintensivere, og give mere frugt og koncentrationen til vinene. Gæringen og lagringen forgår på nye franske egefade, og resultaterne tale deres eget tydelige og intense sprog.
Jonathan Maltus forsøger ikke at lave fransk vin i Napa Valley, men det franske fingeraftryk er afgjort tilstede. Det skyldes ikke mindst bidraget fra den konsulterende ønolog, Gilles Pauquet, der ligeledes konsulterer ikonslotte som Château Cheval Blanc og La Conseillante.
Skønt World's End er et nyetableret brand, er flere internationale vinskribenter dybt begejstrede. For eksempel sidestiller Stephen Tanzer Good Times, Bad Times med californiske kultvine som Opus One, Dominus og Caymus. Decanter's Stephen Brook blindsmagte 130 forskellige Cabernet'er fra Napa Valley, og valgte Crossfire som sin favorit. Flere begejstrede anmeldere vil utvivlsomt følge trop i fremtiden.
Hos Theis Vine har vi valgt at fokusere på følgende vine fra World’s End, der har fundet vej til Danmark i begrædelige små mængder:
Good Times, Bad Times, Beckstoffer To Kalon, Cabernet Sauvignon
(Led Zeppelin/1969)
Crossfire, Missouri Hooper Vineyard, Oakville, Cabernet Sauvignon
(Stevie Ray Vaughan/1989)
Wavelength, Sugarloaf Mountain, Syrah/Cabernet Franc
(Van Morrison/1978)
If Six was Nine, Reserve Napa Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon
(Jimi Hendrix/1967)
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