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This is some stylish Pinot noir and rightly so coming from the winemaker Tony Rynders who has made wine here in America at a few wineries who represent the pinnacle of quality for more than twenty years prior to making his own label. He certainly knew what he was doing when he made this fine [...]

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This is a 62% Grenache, 33% Syrah and 5% Mourvèdre blend. It has serious bramble fruit aromas with a hint of fresh tanned leather and a bit of creama from a freshly brewed espresso shot made with dark Costa Rican beans. The flavors pull the aromas along without the tanned leather replacing it with lip [...]

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This style of wine will please many but I must first qualify that the many I speak of will not be the average Cabernet Sauvignon consumer. There are many dry red wines that have a lot of fruit flavor and may even make you think you are tasting a sweet wine, now multiply that by [...]

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The Hope family that owns Treana wines has a reputation of being innovative in their approach to winemaking and marketing. The concept behind Treana Red speaks to both of those aspects of the wine business. Eschewing the need for a variety specific label this Paso Robles winery has single handedly advanced the term Super Paso [...]

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If you have forgotten what really good merlot tastes like you should reacquaint yourself to this grape by buying a bottle of this Mollydooker and experiencing what merlot should be instead of that homogenized everyman wine that seems to be what a lot of bigger wineries are aiming for no matter what they charge per [...]

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When we received this sample I was intrigued, having once lived near the area where these grapes were grown. The reason I was intrigued was that although this was fourteen years ago, no one was growing Pinot noir on that side of Hwy 101 to my recollection because it is too hot. In the wake [...]

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