Category Bordeaux Blend

Dancing Hares Vineyard Napa Valley Red Blend – 2008 – 9.1 James Meléndez / James the Wine Guy

Varietals:

  • 45% Cabernet
  • 31% Cab Franc
  • 20% Merlot
  • 4% Petit Verdot

Barrel:

  • 85% New French Oak
  • 20 months in the barrel

Notes of tobacco, leather, blackberry, cassis, and deep rich pepper.

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Derby IMPLICO Bordeaux Blend – 2008 – 9.0 – James Meléndez / James the Wine Guy

Roasted blueberry, chocolate, hint of white truffle and scent from a lavender garden.

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Raka Klein River Quinary Red Blend – 2005 – 9.1 – James Meléndez / James the Wine Guy

This wine is a classic Bordeaux blend – 54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc, 6% Malbec, 4% Petit Verdot.  The focus of the wine is on it’s charachteristics of seared bramble fruit, chocolate dust, Crimini mushroom, and slight game note with a pronounced finish.

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