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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.9 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 37 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by bbcc66 on 2/29/2020 & rated 89 points: Decanted 1/2 hr. Consistent, big, fruit-forward tastes of darker fruits. (906 views) | | | Tasted by SICILIAN-SOLE on 12/11/2018 & rated 92 points: Back and blue savory fruit on the nose and palate with a touch of licorice and sweet vanilla. High abv hidden well and drinks very smooth with just a little air. Enjoyable now with no rush. (1195 views) | | | Tasted by The Wine Write on 8/22/2017 & rated 91 points: PNP, drank over 2 nights. Still a solid Bordeaux blend with life ahead. Blue fruit profile and nice mouthfeel. (1996 views) | | | Tasted by MystMrQ on 5/8/2016 & rated 89 points: Deep, rich and fruit driven. Blueberry and blackberry dominate. Long finish but very little development. What you start with is what you end with. While there isn't anything subtle about this wine, it's really enjoyable if you like this style (3248 views) | | | Tasted by vplettnersaunders on 4/2/2016 & rated 88 points: Fruit bomb. Very jammy. Little sediment. Sweet, like a sangria almost. (3145 views) | | | Tasted by ledocq on 11/20/2015 & rated 91 points: Startlingly similar to the Apriori in flavor profile. If you open now, give it a good hour decant or so, as upon the PnP, I found it tasting spoofed. But then it smoothed out. Good stuff. (3504 views) | | | Tasted by silbakor on 11/17/2015: violets! huge tannins. very dry. interesting! (2533 views) | | | Tasted by The Wine Write on 10/4/2015 & rated 91 points: Splash decant. Multi-varietal blend, Cab dominant. Smooth, delicious wine. Lots of life ahead. (2461 views) | | | Tasted by mhewitt on 7/15/2015 & rated 93 points: Massive wine that will be better with time as it loses some baby fat. Still drinking great now, and if you have a few bottles its worth opening. (1521 views) | | | Tasted by Wine Canuck on 5/25/2015: This pours inky dark in colour with a purple/blue core. Evidently quite a ripe, young reductive leaning style. The nose is of sweet dark cherries, raspberry cordial, strawberry coulis, stewed blueberries, confectioners sugar. Loads of sweet ultra ripe fruit in the classical California idiom. The palate features high tannin, elevated acid and an elevated alcohol, fruit forward finish. The declared 15.2% is masked fairly well by the fruit, but is still there. Overall not really my style. (1833 views) | | | Tasted by rmcnees on 4/25/2015 & rated 92 points: This is the most tasty, smoothest and most complex wine I recall ever tasting from the Paso Robles Central Coast region. Dark garnet purple colored, full bodied, complex, rich bright, expressive but smooth and nicely polished with ripe blue berry fruits accented by a layer of sweet soft mocha, hints of vanilla, violet and cinnamon spice with sweet oak on the moderate finish. (1215 views) | | | Tasted by markandsusanw on 4/19/2015 & rated 91 points: Splash decant ... Obviously still super young (OK, I admit it, we opened this one accidentally, over on of our earlier vintages), this actually is better out of the gate than I'd expected. Fruit is fairly well integrated, and while tannins are still omnipresent, they're not pokey or rough. Blackberry to open, but not overly primary, and oak is minimal. Very, very dry with spice notes around the edges. (1121 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Vinous, Paso Robles and Neighbors: New Releases (Sep 2015) (9/1/2015)
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| Desparada Producer websiteRed Blend.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 Central Coasthttp://www.ccwinegrowers.org/links.html
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