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| Drinking window: Drink between 2008 and 2012 (based on 8 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Dulcie and Aylwin on 12/3/2010: So this time I am making sure I enter the note closer to the actual time of drinking. I have to say I really like this wine; one of those from the old Sam's lunchtime specials, where one would be teased into buying something one didn't really care about just because it was on sale. I'm a sucker for that; sometimes good, sometimes bad. This time good. A lot of resinous action on the nose, hint of eucalyptus, dark spicy notes; dark inky red; on the palate, quite sensuous, spicy almost exotic, good acidity, length. Definitely one to have again. (1738 views) | | | Tasted by Dulcie and Aylwin on 3/25/2009: We actually drank this a long while ago, but Aylwin neglected his duty to society by failing to enter it into the record. Shame upon him. So, no real specifics; but we remember this was an interesting, concentrated, dark fruit, spice, good acidity, grip, leather. (1900 views) | | | Tasted by dhonig on 11/29/2008 & rated 87 points: Night One
A rich earthy smell first out of the bottle changes slowly to more fruit and spice after an hour or so in the glass. Red cherries and wild strawberries, asian spices and a touch of vanilla all overlay faint earth and mild mushrooms.
Curiously, red fruit on the nose turns to darker fruit on the palate, blackberries and blackcurrants along with unsweetened cranberries. The darker fruit fades on the mid-palate as a bit of underlying earth joins the tart, even slightly bitter, cranberries. It all leads to a mid-length richly tannic finish.
Very nice on Night One. Will it get better, or fall off, tomorrow?
Night Two
Fruits are darker and softer on Night Two. The cherries have gone from bright Bing cherries to riper black cherries. The tart strawberries are gone, replaced by sweet blueberries and mulberries. The spice is mostly gone, too. The vanilla still lingers.
Most of the balance is gone, leaving a vanilla-loaded wooden fruit bomb, adding cloying brown sugar in the mid-palate and an overall sense of over-worked sweetness.
This was a very nice bottle of wine on Night One, and a big disappointment on Night Two. Does that mean it's bad? No, not at all. It means it is a good bottle of wine made to drink fresh, not to decant for hours or cellar for years. (1955 views) |
| Bokisch Vineyards Producer websiteUSAAmerican 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 Valley The Central California Winegrowers (Official site) | Central Valley (California Wine Institute)Lodi Lodi Woodbridge Winegrape Commission | Lodi District Grape Growers Association |
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