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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.6 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 48 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by dsimmons on 7/17/2023 & rated 90 points: Drinking nicely but not as well as bottle drunk in 2020. Drink up. (489 views) | | | Tasted by Mootsie on 5/30/2023 & rated 92 points: Deep garnet color. Nice floral nose. Dark fruits, tapenade, anise, pepper. Feels like it could go 5-7+ yet. (493 views) | | | Tasted by jfkwines on 1/21/2022: Pop and pour to replace a different flawed wine at dnner. Drank well but could have used more air time.
No score given (410 views) | | | Tasted by kgott2 on 5/2/2021 & rated 94 points: One of the best Two Acres I’ve had in years. (648 views) | | | Tasted by Ed B on 12/13/2020 & rated 91 points: PnP and drank after 30 minutes. Rich. Nice spice. Excellent. (668 views) | | | Tasted by Charlie C on 12/6/2020 & rated 89 points: Much better than my previous bottle. Nose of mellow red fruits. The complex palate shows blueberries, plums, cherries, roast meat, anise. Fine tannins, could still stand to soften a bit. Great acidity, good balance. Perhaps the faintest bit of heat. Long, deep finish of dark fruits. Hard to project this wine from here. Could improve for a couple of years or just fall apart. On balance I would drink over the next year and give it a hour or so decant. (667 views) | | | Tasted by dlduchon on 11/9/2020 & rated 88 points: Nice Mourvèdre nose. Good structure and lingering finish. A bit simple, lack complexity. Perhaps unidimensional. (601 views) | | | Tasted by texaswinelover on 8/8/2020: Popped and poured. Drank with bbq chicken. Delicious ripe fruit with enough gamy quality. 10 years and counting. Caught this in a great place tonight. (559 views) | | | Tasted by dsimmons on 6/16/2020 & rated 92 points: Drsnk with leftovrer braised pork. Delicious as usual. Drink or hold. (519 views) | | | Tasted by Charlie C on 5/14/2020 & rated 85 points: Hard to get a handle on this wine. It started out quite well. A lovely nose of violets. Rich fruit, blackberries, currants, pepper. Polished tannins, nice acidity, decent balance. Finishes long and gradual, blueberries and warm spice. I thought it would go out another 3 or 4 years. But sitting with the wine over dinner, it started to fade rather quickly, becoming harsh on the palate. Bottom line: I'd drink these up and not linger over them. This dropped from an initial impression of a 90 point wine to an 84 or 83 point wine. Overall, probably an 85. (426 views) | | | Tasted by dougie on 5/15/2019 & rated 91 points: Juicy and not jammy. Big and beautiful. A few years left. (706 views) | | | Tasted by budman on 12/20/2018 & rated 92 points: Lovely fruit. Long finish. (842 views) | | | Tasted by EhrlichDY on 12/2/2018: Pop and pour. A "big" wine as my wife proclaimed with a decent amount of fruit, extract, and yes still some oak spice still showing. Even so, the wine is balanced with a kick of acid and some remaining. I do enjoy these wines on their own as they are just so darn tasty. (928 views) | | | Tasted by silton on 3/4/2018 & rated 90 points: Spiced cherries, plum, and old leather. Quaffable and easygoing on the nose and front end but longer than expected and more sultry and 3 dimensional on the back half. It has lost some fruit power but has not reached a state of medium bodied elegance. Somewhat more expressive aromatics would take this to the next level. (1177 views) | | | Tasted by texaswinelover on 8/2/2017: Take this with a grain of salt because my palate has been off due to medication but seems 'flat' to me. Pop and pour. Gamy, meaty, old leather, red fairly bright fruit but somewhat dulling and lifeless to my palate. Acid seems to be there and decent balance but maybe it just needs time. Will update. Drank over 2+ hrs...just never really perked up. Just plain flat mouthfeel. A little disappointed...but it might just be my palate. (1150 views) | | | Tasted by zheem on 1/5/2017 & rated 92 points: Initially this wine was a bit coarse with a lack of interest, but after three days (drinking a little and keeping refrigerated in the meantime) it became wonderfully delicious and smooth like velvet. I suspect this means this wine has many years of life and will probably be best in a few years. (1412 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Murray III on 6/13/2016: Opened yesterday, save the remainder glass for today. Last night, I recall it as juicy, with some red fruited acidity and resolved palate. Tonight, the aromatics suggest Rhone, throwing off a whiff of saddle leather. The fruit shows a lot of dark-tinged raspberry tonight, with a tang that was similar to yesterday, too. The same sweet leather follows into the palate, then the juicy cherry note I mentioned from yesterday. For me, there isn't a lot of structure here, as this is leaning towards the more gentle, juicy side of things. This is my only bottle and given where the wine is right now, I'm glad I opened it. There is enough acidity here that the wine should endure longer but I don't find much tannin. My advice then is get after it and enjoy the tangy, Mourvedre goodness. (1710 views) | | | Tasted by wetlandwino on 5/29/2016 & rated 90 points: Enjoyable wine. (1281 views) | | | Tasted by Mootsie on 9/6/2015 & rated 89 points: Easy drinking, ripe, red fruit and pepper Rhone ish type blend. Nothing really distinctive stands out, but there is also nothing bad about it either. Simple, though elegant, and a little sweet. Not sure time improves these. Drink. (1976 views) | | | Tasted by Outplaying on 1/18/2015: Popped and poured, this showed red berries, cherries, and red apples with accents of cola, char, brown spices and caramel initially. Seems like a lot of oak influence but the website says 15% new French. Not very tannic to my taste, but the wine shows pretty good acid. With a couple hours of air, the fruit turns a little darker, the wine puts on a little weight and loses the caramel (a good thing). It seems more integrated with a little air, but it is hard for me to say how or if this might age. This was my only bottle, but if I had more I'd decant for an hour or two or wait another year before opening. Ann says it is just ok. (1760 views) | | | Tasted by DavidDay on 11/17/2014 & rated 91 points: Red cherries, spices, the fruit seemed to intensify the long the wine sat in the glass. (1733 views) | | | Tasted by Bob & Sue Atlanta on 11/10/2014 & rated 88 points: Not my favorite Carlisle. Drank over three nights. Typical Carlisle holds up forever. Neve had a corked bottle. Just seemed to be thin? (1542 views) | | | Tasted by ravbik on 7/31/2014 & rated 86 points: Light to medium bodied red. Somewhat acidic fruity sour cherries raspberries. Mild tannins. Don't really understand this mixture. (1879 views) | | | Tasted by raydawgone on 7/27/2014 & rated 95 points: Burnt orange peel on nose, very fragrant. Notes of Asian spice, caramel & red raspberry cobbler. Phenomenal juice! (1550 views) | | | Tasted by mpricher on 1/5/2014 & rated 92 points: For a mixed varital field blend, this bottle really brings the thunder... If you like the Mouvedre, then this bottle has those aspects, pluse a deep and full-bodied approach. Lots of black and blue fruit, some bramble action, some spice, and leather. Real Dark color, some tannin. This has alot going on, and really enjoyed this bottle with our mixed Veggie and Pizza. The black olives of the pizza played so well with this wine. Thank you Mike Officer! (1977 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Carlisle Two AcresTwo Acres – Russian River Valley
A true gem in Sonoma County! There is little old-vine Mourvèdre in Sonoma County. Yet, here we have two acres of predominantly mourvèdre planted in 1910. Other varieties planted include Petite Sirah (10%), Syrah (6%), Carignane (4%), Peloursin (3%), and Alicante Bouschet (2%). There are also a few zinfandel vines in addition to nine whites of a variety called Helena (a white cross of Zinfandel and Mondeuse Noir).
This vineyard was on the brink of death when we took it over in 1996 but slowly and surely we have brought it back to life. We completed its renovation in 2003 by replacing all missing vines. Most of the replants were Mourvèdre but we did include a few syrah vines.Red Rhone Blend Read about the different grapes used to produce red and white Rhone wines
On CellarTracker, Red Rhone Blend is the term for a wine consisting of two or more of the traditional 13 Southern Rhone grape varieties. Typically it's the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre or Cinsault grapes, but can also contain the Muscardin, Counoise, Clairette, Bourboulenc, Picpoul, Roussanne, Terret Noir, Picardan or Vaccarese grapes.
A 'food' wine. Lacking pretension and intended for local consumption with local cuisine. Lacks the 'high' notes on a Bordeaux, more earthy and sharper so often a better partner to meat dishes with a sauce. 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountyRussian River Valley Russian River Valley Winegrowers Association | Wikipedia |
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