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| Drinking window: Drink between 2019 and 2024 (based on 55 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.7 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by apkocher on 12/31/2022 & rated 90 points: This didn’t live up to expectations and fell a little flat. I’m not sure I’d hang on to another bottle if I had one. (322 views) | | | Tasted by Ryanswine on 9/9/2022 & rated 89 points: Solid, but not as good as I remembered. May have been slightly past peak? Would try again. (526 views) | | | Tasted by tzarf on 4/12/2020 & rated 93 points: I was skeptical of the high praise for this, wondering if it was inflated in a "Great for Virginia wine'" kind of way. It's definitely deserved. This is great wine and I'm glad it's being recognized as such. Just terrific balance. Fruit is still present and there's a wonderful texture currently. No need to drink up though.
Wish we had more in the cellar. (885 views) | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 3/9/2019 & rated 91 points: Hold em if ya gottem. This is a beaut for the cellar. (1119 views) | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 5/28/2018 & rated 91 points: Virginia Governor's Cup Wines: Deep purple color. Boastful fruit on the nose but fresh and tart (black cherry, plums, red currants), with cocoa, eucalyptus, spiced black tea, vanilla, lots of complexity. Crisp acid frames the palate, structured tannins provide support, and I get lots of tart black cherries and plums. Complex notes of pencil shavings, black pepper, smoky charcoal, grilled herbs. Pure, vibrant, long way to go, but this is beautiful. Merlot with 23% Petit Verdot, 12% Cabernet Franc, 6% Malbec, aged 18 months in 50% new French oak. (1664 views) | | | Tasted by mnrando on 2/14/2018 & rated 91 points: Still a little young but has legs to age (1252 views) | | | Tasted by Vtdarush on 8/27/2017: The 2014 vintage is a blend of Merlot (50%), Petit Verdot (23%), Cabernet Franc (21%), and Malbec (6%). (1183 views) |
| King Family Vineyards Producer websiteRed Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.Meritage The Meritage Association
What Is Meritage?
In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify hand-crafted wines blended from the traditional "noble" Bordeaux varietals including: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot and Malbec or Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, and Sauvignon Vert."Meritage," pronounced like "heritage," was selected from more than 6,000 entries in an international contest to name the new wine category. Meritage is an invented word that combines "merit" and "heritage" - reflecting the spirit of members of The Meritage Association. Meritage® is a registered trademark of The Meritage Association. To use this name on your wine label, please contacthttp://www.meritagewine.org/ about becoming a member.
Who's Legal?http://www.meritagewine.org/new_members.htmlUSAAmerican 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.Virginia Virginia Wines (Virginia Wineries Association)Central VirginiaMonticello is the proper sub region in Virginia for King Family Vineyards, not Central Region.MonticelloArticle from Appelation America https://wine.appellationamerica.com/wine-region/Monticello.html) information on wineries and grape types https://wine.appellationamerica.com/wine/data/Monticello.html) |
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