Posted on 11 April 2012.
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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Posted on 09 April 2012.
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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Posted on 06 April 2012.
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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Posted on 08 March 2012.
A Sonoma Coast AVA Pinot noir produced by a winery from Lompoc that starts out a little burly for a Pinot noir. Not quite to the point of being hurly burly which is a good thing and being burly is not necessarily a bad thing in a red wine, it’s just not a style you [...]
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Posted on 29 February 2012.
This Chianti shows some sophistication that a lot of wineries fail to coax out of their Sangiovese. Complex aromas of ripe bing cherry and a hint of black pepper with nuances of fresh coffee beans and cocoa complete the aroma profile. A clean vibrant acidity reverberates through the mid-palate due to the maturation in only [...]
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Posted on 28 February 2012.
This wine is 100% Pinot Noir sourced from five vineyard locations within the Monterey AVA. Aromas are delicate red fruit and fire singed rosemary sprigs. This is a light style Pinot Noir wine from the Monterey AVA where bigger flavors in most vintages are the norm. This style will appeal to Pinotphiles who prefer their [...]
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