2019 Alban Vineyards Pandora

100 Jeb Dunnuck

The 2019 Pandora brings slightly more of everything, and it certainly tops out my scale. Darker cherries, blueberries, cassis, graphite, and ground pepper are just some of its nuances, and it hits the palate with full-bodied richness and a silky, layered, concentrated, yet sensationally pure and elegant profile that builds with time in the glass. It doesn't have the sheer mass of material of the 2020 and has the slightly more elegant, seamless, pure character of the 2019 vintage front and center. It's an incredibly complex, nuanced, flat-out sensational Grenache to enjoy over the coming 15+ years.