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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.7 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 26 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Orale Wine Lover on 8/2/2023: Miscount (346 views) | | | Tasted by Jag76 on 8/26/2022 & rated 94 points: The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry, raspberry and raisin. It tastes like blueberry, raisin, plum and medium toast. The body is light/medium. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has low acidity. (803 views) | | | Tasted by Jag76 on 8/7/2022 & rated 95 points: The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are slow. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry, prune, raisin and light toast. It tastes like blackberry, blueberry, prune, raisin and light toast. The body is medium. The wine has coarse texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has low acidity. (789 views) | | | Tasted by Jag76 on 6/21/2022 & rated 95 points: Bold, smooth, consistently very good wine.
The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like cranberry, blueberry, cherry and medium toast. It tastes like blackberry and blueberry. The body is medium/full. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has low acidity. (816 views) | | | Tasted by jjmauldin on 4/18/2022 & rated 92 points: Bold smooth fruity flavor (898 views) | | | Tasted by Baron Slick on 12/28/2021 & rated 91 points: Decanted one hour before serving. Plump and full bodied, with ripe black fruit, mint, and some barnyard action. Shows deceptive power, nice structure, and a silky texture. Long and melted on the tasty finish. Nicely done. (944 views) | | | Tasted by chanote44 on 5/29/2021 & rated 91 points: Very well integrated and the oak has mellowed with time from my last tasting. Dark and delicious ! (733 views) | | | Tasted by aaronmphoto on 5/28/2020 & rated 93 points: Really good (1151 views) | | | Tasted by Four Skulls on 2/29/2020 & rated 90 points: A Classic "go to" bottle of wine (1301 views) | | | Tasted by Margaux Bro on 1/10/2019 & rated 92 points: Had at a business dinner so only got 1 glass. 'twas tasty though. (2382 views) | | | Tasted by aaronmphoto on 7/15/2018 & rated 92 points: Let it air for a few hours and it went from delicious to super duper delicious. Definitely love the light but bold and somewhat spicy flavors (2568 views) | | | Tasted by PSUSteve on 6/21/2018 & rated 90 points: PnP off a restaurant list. This was red fruit forward with some tannic grip on the finish. I would give it at least an hour of air if drinking soon. Most likely has upside. (2435 views) | | | Tasted by Tannerdatx on 2/13/2018 & rated 91 points: This wine was a Valentine's day selection. A rich elegant seductive Bordeaux blend from Trefethen winery in Napa Valley.
It has a deep dark fruit under tone like crushed berries, and blackberries. A grippy level of tannins with the heavy taste of clove, star anise, cinnamon, and a tinge of vanilla. A light note of clean wet tabacco leaves makes me think of this wine with a warm beef Wellington on a cool winter day.
Medium plus alcohol.
Recommend decanting (2576 views) | | | Tasted by garygailkrivan on 8/24/2017 & rated 92 points: Blackberry and hints of cinnamon with some tannins that need to be softened with aging. (2693 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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A visit to Trefethen winery estate in Oak Knoll District, Napa Valley -
https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2013/05/trefethen-family-napa-valley-estate.htmlRed 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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners) |
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