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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.1 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 25 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Charlie C on 12/28/2023 & rated 80 points: Dark red with some faint translucence. Plums and earth on the nose. Plums, cherries, blueberries on the palate. Bright and pleasant. Fine tannins, overly acidic, out of balance. Finishes long with dark fruits. Hot. Not awful but not overly enjoyable. Drink up. (179 views) | | | Tasted by Kbrumback on 11/24/2014: Loved this wine. Drank with duck and a 2000 Usseglio mon Aieul CDP.
Both were awesome wines, but this was so much more enjoyable, complete and food friendly than the 2001 Seymours Syrah we had a couple weeks earlier. A little fresher, fruitier and less funky than the Usseglio, but both were great counterpoints to the other. Will try to get more. Highly recommended. (4027 views) | | | Tasted by phenricsson on 4/27/2014 & rated 98 points: Did not get any 07 Pandora so drank this on its own. I love this wine. Pandora is my favorite almost every year. Like a great but more focused Chateauneuf. Great texture and richness. Garrigue and focused kirsch liqueur. Spice-box and great length. (4024 views) | | | Tasted by bonedocnine on 12/2/2012 & rated 93 points: This is the bottle of Alban I've been waiting for! There is a very meaty funk in Alban's syrahs that I often find off putting. I have had hints of this in the past with pandora, but with this bottling, the grenache is in perfect harmony and the funkiness is actually quite appealing. Alban's prices now reflect a QPR that I am not willing to pay so I'm down to just a few bottles. Far from oxidized or aged, this wine is still fresh, young and brooding. (4585 views) | | | Tasted by celk on 5/3/2011 & rated 91 points: Mid-week American Fix (Jade Palace): Lush fruit with crush stone and mineral. Balanced big wine. (5970 views) | | | Tasted by Why Yes on 4/26/2011 & rated 94 points: 60/40 - grenache/syrah - Seymour's Vineyard
An electric ruby-purple, opaque through the core. The nose is unmistakenly Alban-deep, dark and pure of fruit. A slight kiss of reductive aroma reveals itself in the background with persistent swirling-and-sniffing, adding to the freshness and vivacity of the wine.
The palate is much lighter than more recent Alban bottlings, intesity without heaviness. Black and blue fruit dominate with the classic Alban funk apparent. Represents fruit as much the dirt it was grown in. Currently, lip-smackingly delicious, but with years ahead of it. I can not even fathom the distance this wine will run. At 10 years it is sitll a pup, and in a great drinking window. (5433 views) | | | Tasted by Vinomarcus on 4/6/2011 & rated 92 points: Wednesday Night Blind - April 2011 (Peter Pratt's Inn): Blind - Big, bold wine, loaded with black fruit and cracked black pepper, long and lush wine with tremendous depth. Really nice. (3331 views) | | | Tasted by 560 B&W on 2/18/2011 & rated 93 points: Tasted Feb 18, 2011 (547 views) | | | Tasted by G_H on 10/15/2010 & rated 93 points: Tasted this wine twice in the last year, it performed much better last time (96+) than now(93), but it is still packed with fruit and aroma. Great wine that will keep longer than Parker anticipates (which is 7 years) (2881 views) | | | Tasted by nfafoglia on 4/24/2010 & rated 96 points: Cassis, scorched earth, crushed flowers, bacon fat on the nose. On the palate pepper and sweetened raspberries dominate a very balanced finish that goes a long time. Beautiful deep purple color. Grenache as it ought a be! Wish I had more in the cellar. . . (2260 views) | | | Tasted by winelovr2001 on 8/28/2009 & rated 95 points: Showed really nice at a tasting of 01, 02, 03. Lots of extraction and bacon fat. (2419 views) | | | Tasted by kstoddard on 1/25/2009 & rated 89 points: Dark purple color. Tastes of diesel, tar, raspberry, plumb, black pepper, black/green olives, spice, garrigue and leather. Ripe fruit that is beginning to mature. Light acidity. Very full bodied with noticeable alcohol but not overly hot despite its loft 15.9% alcohol. Powerful finish with some depth. (2664 views) | | | Tasted by W.Simons on 11/23/2008: Poured small amount to rinse glasses and dump. Glass completely coated and the massive and impressive nose simply erupted from the glass. Fat enormous nose of licorice, cranberry, pepper. Big spicy finish. Nose bursts with black raspberry and hickory and a bit of funk. Intensely rich. Sweet tannin. Meaty. Cloves. Thoroughly hides the 16% alcohol. Concentrated, ripe and fat but with impressive acidity. Gradually revealing cigar and menthol. Paprika. (2480 views) | | | Tasted by reichken on 11/5/2008 & rated 92 points: Drunk at Lunch at the Ledbury-Decanted 2+ hours, dark purple color, spicy casis nose.med high acidty, spicy black dark fruits in the mouth, well balanced and the fruit and tanin are well integrated, very long finish, still very primary but coming along nicely (2665 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 5/8/2008 & rated 84 points: Alban Syrah Verticals (WineBank, Menlo Park, California): Herbaceous, bittersweet chocolate, leather and mushroom nose; more oak showing on this one, tart black fruit with an olive note, not as rich or complex as others; medium finish (2453 views) | | | Tasted by JBVino on 4/28/2008: Had with 01 Loraine and 01 Reva...overall disappointed with all three. Clearly not my style. Nearly impossible to pair with a meal and even without to me is too one dimensional with thick, heavy sweat fruit. More notes on the Loraine (2645 views) | | | Tasted by markellen.foodies@gmail.com on 10/4/2007 & rated 93 points: Global GRENACHE BYO dinner at The French Bakery (The French Bakery, Kane Concourse, Bay Harbor Islands, FL): Flight 4 B. My wine. Decanted for 2 hours in the am. It was very good but no better than the Clarendon Romas. And while it is a pricey mailing list wine, it is hard to justify its price vis a vis what is a reasonably priced varietal. Deep somewhat brooding wine, that has years to go. (4066 views) | | | Tasted by reichken on 3/17/2007 & rated 90 points: big and rich...casis, black fruit and vanilla...if i didnt know what i was drinking would have thought it was a oz shiraz viogner blend
it drinks great but can go for a long time (3741 views) | | | Tasted by 101kgb on 2/24/2007: fantastic. ripe and ready (3986 views) | | | Tasted by JFish on 1/8/2007: Drank along side a 2001 Alban Grenache and followed by a 2001 Alban Reva. The Pandora was the most structured of the three with noticeably more acidity. The Grenache was the most balanced Alban I have ever had and both it and the Reva were full of lush fruit with little reduction noted. All three were great bottles but were paired with a poor football game. (3449 views) | | | Tasted by mnh on 12/25/2005: Smooth, well integrated. (984 views) | | | Tasted by markellen.foodies@gmail.com on 5/13/2005 & rated 95 points: markelln@bellsouth.net at Mosaico, Miami. Extra-ordinary Grenache = to finest CdP (4279 views) |
| Alban Vineyards Producer websiteGrenache Varietal character (Appellation America) - Read more about GrenacheUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Central Coasthttp://www.ccwinegrowers.org/links.html
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