April 6, 2008
This wine is predominately Grenache with a slight amount of Syrah and Carignan. The wine has very noticeable acids; mid-summer fruit, heirloom tomato, and fennel.
¡Salud!
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April 6, 2008
This is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, and Carignan. The wine is structured with bold acid, red summer fruit and dessert spices.
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March 31, 2008
59% Syrah, 23% Grenache, 13% Mourvèdre & 5% Cinsault; the Syrah lead the varietals in giving definition and boldness. Drink this wine with a wonderful piece of steak or lamb. The wine contains structure. Firmness and beautiful tannins; the wine presents with dark red fruit, flint, underbrush and Italian truffle.
¡Salud!
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March 31, 2008
This wine contains - 70% Grenache, 17% Mourvèdre & 13% Syrah. The wine presents with rose petal, red peach, Bing cherry and leather.
¡Salud!
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March 31, 2008
This wine contains - 27% Grenache, 27% Mourvèdre, 25% Syrah, 13% Counoise & 8% Cinsault; a interesting wine that does not have; a predominate or grape that overwhelms the other varietals. This wine is sophisticated and bold and yet elegant; blackberry, plum, Morel mushroom.
¡Salud!
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March 17, 2008
A fruit bomb wine. I was disappointed. Shiraz and Grenache can temper the fruit and bring a fuller wine–this wine starts promising and ends with a fruit that keep going and ends on raisin. Disappointing.
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February 3, 2008
This Priorato is a blend of Granache, Cabernet Sauvignon and Carignan; this wine exhibits plenty of herbaceous notes; most pronounced are Eucalyptus and mint. This Priorato seems to be at it’s prime; I would enjoy now.
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December 10, 2007
I picked this bottle at The Wine Club in San Francisco. The handwritten sign said “Smokin” as I have expressed previously I am skeptical when I see these signs is to often believe the opposite. Now I have good luck with previous call outs. But this wine, which had a synth cork, and I reflect that in my rating, was not “Smokin.” The wine did not have as pronounced fruit, acid, or spice that I expected and hoped; the wine overall was weak. Given the reasonable price point I realize I wouldn’t or couldn’t expect a 9.0 but I was hoping for a bit more.
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September 3, 2007
A dry red wine with substantial character; spicy, slight floral bouquet; nice tight acid and tannins; cedar box, mild Serrano chile, earth, fall Maple leaf, and Tarragon.
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August 21, 2007
This is a very interesting Rhone varietal blend. This wine contains 53% Grenache, 34% Syrah, 8% Mourvedre and 5% Counoise. This wine presents with a nice acid structure and the blend offers evenness and medium baked red fruit, white pepper, cinnamon and allspice.
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