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| Drinking window: Drink between 2009 and 2015 (based on 12 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.8 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 14 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 8/26/2023: Winefool Going Away Party and Cellar Depletion (Jack's Bistro - Chicago IL): Tasted 2 days ago, note from memory. Wonderful when last tasted shortly after release (2006), but now long past its drinking window. Completely uninteresting. (1008 views) | | | Tasted by mnoljo on 9/28/2015 & rated 90 points: Holding up really well cherry bell pepper (745 views) | | | Tasted by Vino Me on 9/25/2015 & rated 92 points: Opened by Mark. Not decanted but opened about 3 hours. 5th time I have had this wine and it has been consistently fine. 79% Cab Sauvignon, 17% Cab Franc and 4% Merlot. Nose of herbs and forest floor. Notes over cherry and raw meat. A multi layered wine with good depth of flavors. Solid tannin. Old world character. Holding up great for 12 years old. 92 points (981 views) | | | Tasted by fitzi on 3/9/2012: I was ready to disdain this wine, pouring scorn on it, but it's actually quite good: red currant, tangy cedar. A bit high-toned and acidic, but stops well short of screechy. An interesting example of the CS varietal, with enough thoroughly decent fruit to give it interesting depth and nuance. Pretty good, interesting; I wonder if Cab Franc wouldn't do better in this climate, though. (1496 views) | | | Tasted by Vino Me on 12/13/2011 & rated 92 points: Opened this bottle alongside the 2006 Shou and after 5 2000 bordeaux. More impressed by this wine now than at any time since I first had it from barrel in 2004. Here is a wine which changes the pardigm for red wine from Michigan. An ageworthy, well crafted, balanced red loaded with character and depth. Double decanted 3 hours before drinking. No sediment. Dark red color with slight bricking. This had some minty nose which was not present in any of my 3 previous tastings of this wine. Very different than the bordeaux we had before it. Sweeter with more fruit. Riper tasting. Floral notes with chocolate and red fruit. Integrated tannins. Light to medium bodied. Impressive showing at 8 years old since it has lost some of it's baby fat. One of the highest compliments I can pay a wine is to state that the wine has "something to say". This wine falls into that category. it might not be the best wine at a tasting but it is the most interesting wine and the one a wine lover can learn most. Sadly, my last bottle. 92 points. Drank the final glass of this about a week later and it was still holding up. (1749 views) | | | Tasted by Vino Me on 9/3/2008 & rated 92 points: Gourmet Dinner #1- All American Summer Fare (Chateau VinoMe): I opened this bottle and tried it when first opened and again a couple hours later. Decanted for an hour and poured back into the bottle to sit for another hour. One of the best Michigan Reds I have had. Old world character. Earthy texture and a bit Chinon in style with green pepper nuances but not underripe. Just a touch of barnyard which blew off. Creamy red fruit notes with asphalt and pencil shaving aromas. 91-92 points. (2341 views) | | | Tasted by Old_Winyards on 12/14/2006 & rated 92 points: 2003 was a warm summer in Michigan, and the Shou is a fairly lush wine as a result. The resilient graphite nose was readily apparent. To me this seemed like a reasonable balance between old world and new, with lots of characteristic bordeaux scents, but a somewhat more new world, slightly more fruit-forward taste on the palate. Tannins and structure suggest that these should provide reasonable agability. (1869 views) | | | Tasted by cassetta on 12/8/2006 & rated 92 points: Dark and dense in color. The nose erupts with dark chocolate and cab franc spice (17%). Black friut coats the palate with smooth silky tannins. The wine continued to flesh out over the coarse of the night. Old world nose with a lush new world character. I would have pegged this as left bank bordeaux from a ripe year. BTW, while not in the same leauge, this wine held it's own against the '03 Branaire Ducru. (3350 views) | | | Tasted by Old_Winyards on 9/21/2006 & rated 90 points: Medium red color, with cigarbox, cedar, and cassis on the nose. Nice smoothe, silky tannins and medium body. The tobacco and cedar notes are nicely present, along with leather, cassis and perhaps a bit of anise. This is an amazingly nice wine from Michigan! (1486 views) | | | Tasted by winefool on 8/28/2006 & rated 93 points: Liex-dts-cru Casual Gevrey 1ers with Wyncroft (Burgundy Al's): I thought the single best wine in a wide ranging lineup of Wyncrofts (many that didn't make the notes). This wine had great depth of fruit with wonderful cab franc character. Could easily compete in California at the price point. 93-94 pts. (2155 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 8/28/2006 & rated 91 points: Mostly Gevrey Dinner with Wyncroft (My home - Chicago IL): Very impressive Bordeaux blend for Michigan. Good dense black fruit on nose with some barnyardy character (from Cab Franc?). Rich and ripe fruit on palate with good spice to start, slightly hollow in the middle, but fruit and spice finish this off nicely at the end. Impressive for its source. (1470 views) | | | Tasted by Vino Me on 6/26/2006 & rated 91 points: Wyncroft Winey Tour & Vineyard Dinner (Wyncroft Winery, Buchanon, Michigan): 2nd time I have had this as well. Last time from barrel and this time from bottle (and a nice job of packaging on the bottle at that). You will not find the word "Shou" on the label though- only the chinese symbol for the word. Unlike the 2002, this has much more Cab Franc than Merlot. 79% Cab Sauvignon, 17% Cab Franc and 4% Merlot. A little cooler vintage but good heat int he Fall to ripen the grapes. Showing some light smoky oak at present. Medium bodied and well balanced. Smooth moutheel. Rich red fruit in this Bordeaux lookalike. Exactly what I thought it would be after I tried it 2 years ago. Never, never, never would you guess where this is from in a blind tasting. 91 points. (2859 views) | | | Tasted by Vino Me on 7/11/2004 & rated 91 points: Barrel sample. I saved the best for last. Made from 14 year old vines with low yields. This had a gorgeous nose filled with violet and cherry aromas. Notes of new leather and cassis among the smokey red fruit. Silky tannins and a long finish. This is going to be outstanding. This is a Bordeaux look alike. I am sure I could put this in a lineup with a half dozen 2001 Bordeaux and it would fit right in. 90-92 points. (1606 views) |
| 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.Michigan Michigan Wines (Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council) |
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