2015 Desert Wind Vineyard RUAH

Community Tasting Notes (4) Median Score: 88 points

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  8/11/2018 - Grateful4Red Likes this wine: 88 Points

  A slight hint of sweetness, some vanilla, and we both thought it was very slightly carbonated

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  7/7/2018 - srh Likes this wine:

  Taste Top Pick Wines for July (San Diego Wine Co.): 32% Merlot, 24% C.S., 18% Syrah, 14% C.F., 8% Malbec, & 4% Petit Verdot; "...16 mos in contact with oak..."; ABV 14.0 % • TA 0.62 g/100ml • pH 3.82.
  
  Gold Medal - '17 Seattle Wine Awards
  Silver Medal - '18 S.F. Chronicle Wine Comp @ $20
  Wine of the Week & Outstanding! rating - Great Northwest Wine, 9/5/17
  Bronze Medal - '17 L.A. International Wine Competition
  
  N: Toast, smoke, slightly atop cherries, poss pyrazines
  
  P: Med, poss LM, body; RNDISH entry with nice, ALMOST swtish frt met by puckerish astringency which only somewhat mitigates by the LONG, pleasant, bitterSWT choc (?) finish. NEEDS through '19, then for for 3+ yrs more. My VG+, poss EXC-, more IF one focuses upon the QPR of this vendor's $11.99, which is roughly $1 < the next lowest of wine-searcher's skewed entries.]
  
  Note: For whatever reason, I found this bottle considerably better than the one I tasted on 3/10/2018.

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  4/15/2018 - Spts wrote:

  Was better than expected

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  3/10/2018 - srh Likes this wine:

  Blind Wine Tasting (San Diego Wine Co.): 32% Merlot, 24% C.S., 18% Syrah, 14% C.F., 8% Malbec, & 4% Petit Verdot; "...16 mos in contact with oak..."; ABV 14.0 % • TA 0.62 g/100ml • pH 3.82.
  
  Gold Medal - '17 Seattle Wine Awards
  Wine of the Week & Outstanding! rating - Great Northwest Wine, 9/5/17
  Bronze Medal - '17 L.A. International Wine Competition
  
  N: Closed; berries, earth, some smoke?
  
  P: LM body; ALMOST swtish frt met by some puckerish astringency which transitions into a LONG (albeit very slightly faint) finish with a spiciness & very, VERY slight touch of bitterness (from tannins?). My G+/VG-. For now & through '19. [This vendor's $11.99 is roughly $1 < than the only other currently listed source on wine-searcher.]

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