Deep ruby color; red and black fruits, pepper on the nose; plum, red cherry, blackberry, blackcurrant tang, minerality on the palate. Continue reading
Category: Tasting Notes
Vin du Lac of Chelan Cuvée Rouge Columbia Valley 2011
Deep ruby color; red cherry nose; raspberry, plum, red and black cherry, hint of mocha on the palate. Continue reading
Amavi Syrah Walla Walla Valley 2014
Deep purple color; plum, spice, wet rock on the nose; blueberry, blackberry, plum, black cherry, olive on the palate. Continue reading
LangeTwins Centennial Zinfandel, Lodi 2011
Deep purple color; blackberry, smoke, oak, pepper on the nose; black fruits, blackberry, raspberry, plum, vanilla, spice on the palate. Continue reading
Go-to mass market wines
With Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus feasts coming, we visit mass-market, easy-on-the-wallet wines you can pour without shame, and certainly can use as second-plus bottles after you shamelessly showed off by ostentatiously opening your cellared treasure at the beginning of the meal. Continue reading
Codice Citra Caroso Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOC Riserva 2010
Deep ruby color; red fruit, spice, vanilla on the nose; plum, sour cherry, raspberry, red fruits, spice on the palate. Continue reading
Harney Lane Old Vine Zinfandel, Lizzy James Vineyard, Lodi 2014
Inky purple-black color; black cherry, brambles, star anise on the nose; dark almost-jammy fruits, blackberry, spice, mocha on the palate. Continue reading
Veuve Devienne Rosé Sec Sparkling Wine NV
Deep copper-salmon color; raspberry, cherry, yeast, whiff of white pepper on the nose; raspberry, red grapefruit, cherry, strawberry, lime on the palate. Continue reading
The Prisoner Wine Company The Prisoner Napa Valley Red Wine 2015
Deep ruby-purple color; Bing cherry, black currant, blackberry on the nose; dark fruits, blackberry, black cherry, raspberry, boysenberry, vanilla, chocolate on the palate. Continue reading
Louis M. Martini Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley Sonoma County 2013
Deep ruby color; black cherry, plum, leather, licorice, black currant on the nose; black cherry, black currant, plum, dried herbs on the palate. Continue reading
