2021 Lindquist Family Wines GSM Central Coast 750 ml

In California wine circles, Bob Lindquist needs no introduction.

The founder of Qupé in 1983, he was one of the original Rhône Rangers—championing and mastering grapes like Syrah and Grenache long before they were fashionable. Along the way, Wine & Spirits said “Bob Lindquist makes some of the most consistently fine Syrah in California.” His wines have landed on the W&S Top 100 lists more than a dozen times.

Lindquist is making arguably the greatest wines of his career these days under the label he started after selling Qupé. “Judging by these new releases, Lindquist hasn’t missed a beat since leaving Qupé a few years ago,” Antonio Galloni wrote last year in Vinous. We’ve long loved Bob’s wines for the way they combine Old World vibrancy with seductive New World fruit—and sneaky ageability as well.

We recently took a bottle of his 1999 Los Olivos Cuvée, the spiritual predecessor of this wine, to an old-school steakhouse, and it was fantastic—beautifully mature and easily confused for grand Châteauneuf. It also still had its original $12.99 price-tag on it, a further reminder that Lindquist’s gems are some of the most outrageous values in California, as well.

The 2021 GSM is 47% Grenache, 28% Syrah, and 25% Mourvèdre, all sourced from some of Bob Lindquist’s favorite vineyards across the Central Coast. Built to be delightful now, it’s full of impressively pure red and black fruit—all rounded out with the sort of wild-herb garrigue that shows its Old World roots. 

While we’re officially recommending you enjoy this bottle young for its exuberant, sappy fruit, don’t hesitate to tuck a few bottles away for a decade or more. You might very well be rewarded.