1996 Rockbridge Vineyard Merlot DeChiel Reserve

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  9/15/2000 - timewithwine wrote:

  Friday, September 15, 2000 What a wine! Deep luscious red color. Rich cherry nose with cassis, tobo and cocoa. This is a comfort smell that just relaxed your back and excites your senses. You detect it and just KNOW you’ve come home. A deliciously rich wine of cassis, earth, truffle and something else, I just don’t know. Blueberry I say, blackberry, Deneen says. A wonderful mouthfeel with a rich sensuous mid palate. It gave me something I felt I’d been missing. A slight off balance wine with a hot feel to it as if too much alcohol. A tad bit bitter on the back end, but the longer it’s open the better it is. Just enough left over for a slight taste tomorrow...in case it changes a bit. With Friday night light bite of cheese, bread, light meats.
  Friday, October 26, 2001 Bright, clear deep red with no sign of bricking. The bing cherry nose is apparent well before the glass meets the nose. A little time later, the bing cherry is still the most predominant feature of the bouquet but with leather and maybe oak. Fruit forward on the palate with loads and loads of flavorful fruit (blackberry and cherry), saddle leather, vanilla. Fresh and mouth-fillingly smooth; wonderfully balanced. If you like Merlot, you’ll love this. If you don’t like Merlot, you’d still admire the quality and structure of the wine. With fillet beefsteak and mushrooms, Gouda and bread. 10/26.01.
  Wednesday, July 23, 2003 Deep burgundy in the center with some bricking on the edge. Concentrated, but not focused fruit of cherry, cassis, earth and tea. Medium bodied wine. Soft and round, with a fairly long finish of cassis. Five nights later, after spending that time in the ‘frig’, it’s still showing well. Rather remarkable. Made by Shep Rouse, one of Va’s top winemakers. About $18.00 at purchase. With sauteed pork loin marinaded in date, molasses and red wine sauce.

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