5/3/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

The wine was bone-dry and fruit was integrated into that dryness. It is smooth and medium+ body. The Tannin blends perfectly with the overall wine dryness.

5/3/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

I bought a case and this is the first bottle that has tasted right. A nice Smooth Malbec with bright fruit and tannin on the finish. We'll see how the other bottles are.

5/3/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

The wine is a bargain. A solid Cab that is easy drinking, smooth, and asty. It is not a 92 like Wine Enthusiast claims but can be pput up against half the $20 Cabs and will be picked as superior. A touch on the sweet side but that is the trend now. A $7 wine for everyone.

5/3/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This is an elegant Barbera with big blackberry and plum in a smooth mouth. It is big but easy-drinking. My wife made it well known, she likes it.

5/3/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

A big fruity and heavy wine with flavors that are smooth and supple. Heavy blackberry and moderate oak with a fine tannin that is well integrated. The wine was very tenacious after opening. I had the chance to have a taste a day after and 3 days afte opening; The wine held up well and maintained a full flavored taste without showing any significant oxidation.

5/3/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This bottle was a superbly aged bottle that showed luscious dried fruit and smooth brambles. It it drinking extremely well and was preferred over the 2017 by the three of us. It just gave that warm satisfying feeling as you drank it.

5/3/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

In this bottle the fruit was showing very bright and forward. Blueberry and blackberry with lucious mouth. It was a really good example of this wine.

5/3/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

An ok fruit flavored wine. Adequately made but nothing special. The bubbles were distracting to me.

5/3/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

A nice Cab that shows good balance and smooth flavors. Not complex but shows depth of flavors. Not the 92 that Wine Enthusiast gave it but a nice value. Not likely a wine for long term storage.

5/3/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Very nicely aged and balanced. For sure a tasty wine. I love aged German Rieslings and this one benefits from the aging. It has plenty of aging time to go too. Nutty flavors are just now developing

4/29/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Smooth and easy drinking. Sangiovese sings with tobacco and Cherry.

4/29/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Fresh and bright with tight briariness and long finish. This is what I expect.

4/29/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This was the best bottle of Vino Nobile I have had in several years. A prototype for Nino Nobile.

4/26/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Light and delicate sangiovese with the flavors melded together and a nice dry tannin on the finish. A good and easy-drinking wine that can be paired with most light to medium italian food. Not the 95 that Wine Enthusiast gave it but for sure a very good buy.

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Nice well balanced and tasteful wine. It has a touch of sweetness more that I think it should have but that may still be influence from the big fruitiness. Dry on the back pallet in the middle and on the mouth in the finish. Has not changed much since it was initially released.

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

With all the Paso wines in this price range it seems a rather ho-hum wine. A bit sweet and a good bit of fruit. Acidity was showing and that probably caused the wine to be in less-than-perfect balance

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

I continue to be disappointed in this wine. For a 50$ bbottle it needs to be 90+. None of the bottles I have had has been close

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Strange vegetal flavor in the middle. An ok wine but that's it. No one in our group commented positively but everyone drank it.

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

82 The wine had developed nicely in all ways but one. it had a strong off-setting bitterness on the back pallet. I drank it all but.......

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Back to a good bottle. this wine hasn't gotten better with time but it has held it's quality well. Look at my previous comments, they apply here on this bottle.

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Big fruit and slightly sweet. Good balance and complexity.

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This bottle has been aging nicely. At 14 years, it is showing very nicely. It is distinct in its Bordeaux flavors that are stong and well blended. Still slightly fruity perspective and wonderful smoothness along with very dry fine tannins that are still gripping and long lasting, For sure this wine was just waiting for the time in bottle to start showing like it has. Probably It will drink as well for at least 2-3 more years before it starts diminishing.

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

big body and heavy fruit. Smooth and easily drinkable wine that has power and finesse

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

lots of good character but a strange metallic asparagus flavor was present and made itless pleasant.

4/25/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

bottle gone; metallic taste;Highly effevescent

2/20/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

The least of all the bottles I have tried. A good wine for sure but nothing to write about.

2/20/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Tried it again and it was pretty much the same. A couple years did not improve it.

2/20/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

I've had some really nice and good Georgian wines, but this was not one of them. Sold at COSTCO for $20. It was a sweet, strange (bad) flavored, poorly balanced wine. One glass was all I could tolerate (I was hoping some air might improve it). I tried it two days later, and it had fallen totally apart. The only positive I can think of is that it was in a fancy Urn-like bottle.

2/15/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This bottle was very smooth drinking. Flavors were dark berries on the front and middle where some dark milk chocolate came into the Mouth. Finish was slightly drying with fruit and dry, smooth tannin.

2/15/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This bottle was tired but still had a nice aged Sangiovese flavor. Very dry and fine tannins showed nicely, and the tobacco and leather flawed right into that tannin.

2/12/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This bottle was really feeling it's age, No freshness anywhereStill an ok wine - not what it was

2/12/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Another 92 from me. Still going strong and bright with tongue-tingly spice. Nice full body and balance.

2/12/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This bottle wasn't up to the last bottle but still quite nice. It seemed at the end of prime drinking; the fruit was just not as bright and fresh but still tasty and good body. Middle showed the brambly spice and the end had nice tannin in the fruit finish.

2/12/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This was the first time I had this wine. Again, from what I heard about the wine it fell short of expectations, just like their Cab. A bit too sweet (likely to help hide some flaws) It was a fruit forward wine of medium body and a moderate to light finish. A nice blend of red, black, and blue fruits, it started falling apart later the night we opened it. Drink soon based on this bottle. $60 in a restaurant - About double where it should be.

2/12/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Consistent with previous years. Solid wine focused on fruit and sweetness. By no mean, a connoisseurs' wine but solid for a mass market low-priced wine.

2/12/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This bottle was doing well too. I won't give another rating for the official score, but it is still a 91 for this bottle.

2/12/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Well, the '15 is not equivalent to the '05. Still good and holding its own, the '15 still has a good profile and the performance is good with flavor and texture, but it is now showing its age without developing a strong well-formed Mature win. Drink in the next 2 or 3 years!

2/11/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

The wine I drank was a nice flavorful and good balanced wine. Tasted like a good Jumilla. Went well with food

2/11/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This is a good wine and I'm going to focus on the things that keep it from being even better. First and foremost, there is a bitter green pepper flavor in the mouth. It seems to be a flavor that is mellowing, but it hides the blackberry and other dark and blue berries. The wine is huge, but the wine can leave a watery, thin residual mouth at the end of some swallows. Tannins seem light for the body of this wine.

2/4/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Probably at its drinking peak. Nice briary fruit and balance. This wine should still be nice for lots of years. This opened bottle had the misfortune of being kept well over two weeks, and the last glass out of the bottle was still drinking well.

2/4/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Fine grain, tight tannins throughout, with leather and tobacco flavor dominating. Smooth and supple with a tightness toward the end when the tannin shows the most. Quite nice drinking.

2/1/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

I tasted kiwi and pineapple in a nice Golden wine. The sweetness was just about perfect to be a balance to the flavors. When refirigerator-cold, the wine showed a bit bitter, but at proper serving temp., that all went away. Medium long finish with green apple on the end

2/1/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

It looks like this wine is drinking well right now. The flavors and balance are wonderful. Details are very similar to my August tasting note. Tannin was tight and gripping today.

2/1/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

A really nice balanced Cab France. Flavors were medium, but the wine felt like the flavors were finely divided in your mouth. Fruit was dark but mostly dark berries. There was a touch of spice and the medium oak showed nicely.

2/1/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Dark, inky wine with a lot of blue color in it. The fruit is blended in flavor with mostly dark fruits that are fresh and flavorful. The mouth is full and fruity and it finishes well with fruit and heavy fine tannins

2/1/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This Syrah was really nice and tasty. Well integrated flavors of dark fruits, that have developed more depth than when it was new. It paid off to keep this bottle around for 18 years.

2/1/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Very big wine that opened slowly and was consumed by five us long before it fully opened. Dark fruit and chocolate throughout with heavy, tight, tannin. This is the first time I have gotten some vegetal trait in the middle. This wine has a bunch of years before it opens up

2/1/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Another bottle, Silky and medium/big body. Some dark chocolate and dark cherry, with medium, smooth tannins.

1/27/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

Dry dark chocolate, and dark, dark fruit, great dry tannin.

1/27/2024 - wtianseter wrote:

This wine showed nicely, but this bottle showed just a little tired. lost of blueberry and plum. Big wine. Based on this bottle, drink up what you have.