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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.7 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 28 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by ArtF on 5/8/2024 & rated 93 points: Revisited after two weeks with coravin. So smooth, firm, fruity rose water on palate. I will hold my other bottle another two years. (80 views) | | | Tasted by ArtF on 2/17/2024 & rated 91 points: Probably past prime. Not lively any longer. But should hold up another few years. Some mature notes I liked, wife didn't. Smooth, some firming tannin and lingering acidity. (129 views) | | | Tasted by ArtF on 10/20/2023 & rated 91 points: Volatile acidity more integrated than bottle opened two months ago. Not any minerals, but firm and balanced. (279 views) | | | Tasted by ArtF on 8/10/2023 & rated 90 points: Hint of strawberry fruit on nose and palate, a little volatile acidity on nose. Plush palate, full bodied, tart alcohol intruding on balance. (323 views) | | | Tasted by gabrowns on 4/13/2023 & rated 84 points: Not bad, but I expected a lot more at this price point. As another commenter said, it’s a good pop-and-pour, but I can get wines of similar quality and complexity at half the price. (576 views) | | | Tasted by golfhawk on 11/7/2021 & rated 90 points: A really good blend that was a great pizza wine. Smooth and had some good nuances. Don’t see it getting any better. (1219 views) | | | Tasted by kingboo on 9/19/2021 & rated 93 points: Singing. (1244 views) | | | Tasted by cincybt on 8/29/2021 & rated 90 points: This has aged well and drinks enjoyably. Also quick to open, if you realize you’re a bottle-short for a meal. (1129 views) | | | Tasted by golfhawk on 3/10/2021 & rated 89 points: Big rich blend that was full of dark fruits. Can be drank now or in the next couple of years. (1499 views) | | | Tasted by mfinn44 on 1/19/2021 & rated 91 points: Great meritage for $50. Enjoy! (1324 views) | | | Tasted by rsct2001 on 4/5/2020 & rated 90 points: Big wine. Perfect for a big steak dinner. (1451 views) | | | Tasted by Dezel on 2/25/2020 & rated 92 points: Rodney Strong Vineyards 2014 Symmetry: Symmetry is the producer’s flagship. A blend of best barrels, this Cabernet Sauvignon-led Meritage is sourced from estate properties. It pours deep garnet-purple. In the mouth it is rich and layered yet well-balanced, combining plum, ripe blackberry and licorice with faint hints of mocha and forest floor, ending with mildly dry tannins. Delicious wine; begs to be paired with a hearty meal. (1468 views) | | | Tasted by BobMilton on 8/9/2019 & rated 90 points: A nive Meritage blend. Dark fruit, smooth tannins, nicely balanced. (1767 views) | | | Tasted by R2-D2 on 5/24/2019 & rated 88 points: Monte de Oro Blind CA Meritage Tasting (Temecula, CA): Tasted blind. Some acetone in the nose; black cherries, tobacco and cedar. Didnt find this to be anything offensive or overly interesting. (1986 views) | | | Tasted by Nati Winos on 2/1/2019: Opened up after an hour or so. Not sure it was worth the $. (1684 views) | | | Tasted by Ticker tape guy on 1/11/2019 & rated 90 points: nice earthy nose cigar box and light leather on the initial taste..tannins well integrated..paired well with chopped steak in mushroom gravy (1443 views) | | | Tasted by Rollerball on 5/22/2018 & rated 87 points: Lots of bright flavor and a nicely flowing texture but cloyingly vanilla-sweet on both the attack and the finish. Lifetime Rodney Strong fan but this style I just can't really bear. Wait a while in hopes it integrates? 2020-2024. (2412 views) | | | Tasted by CaseyatBat on 3/1/2017: Do not drink until 2019 (2362 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Tom Klein
Proprietor
A fourth generation California farmer, Tom earned a business degree from Stanford and spent the first part of his career as a management consultant at the San Francisco office of the prestigious global management firm McKinsey & Company. One project during this time was evaluating a small winery in the Russian River Valley called Rodney Strong Vineyards and, in a chance meeting, he was introduced to founder Rod Strong and winemaker Rick Sayre. Already developing an interest in wine, this encounter planted a seed that would grow into a lifelong passion.
Rick Sayre
Head Winemaker
Rick began his winemaking career at the age of 19 as an assistant winemaker and cellar master at Simi Winery in Sonoma County. He had the opportunity to train under the world-renowned winemaster André Tchelistcheff, who instilled in his young trainee a deep passion for the art of winemaking and a desire to not only master his craft, but continually push the boundaries of creativity. “André taught me that a winemaker must live with his wine,” Rick recalls, “from walking the vineyards to the careful craft of guiding the wine into bottle. Even the smallest details can have a lasting effect.”
When Rod Strong decided to take a step back from the demanding role of winemaker, he called upon Rick Sayre, who joined the team at Rodney Strong Vineyards in 1979. In more than three decades in the cellars, Rick has guided the wine collection to include world-class Reserve, Symmetry and Single-Vineyard releases, an outstanding line of Estate wines and best-in-class Sonoma County wines that continue to please vintage after vintage. His voracious appetite for new winemaking knowledge has taken him around the world, including trips to the wine regions of France, Australia, New Zealand and Spain
Red Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.USAAmerican 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountyAlexander Valley Alexander Valley Winegrowers Association | Wikipedia
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