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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 1 note) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 12/18/2018 & rated 88 points: Some California samples: Rich purple color. Aromas of saucy black cherries, dark plums, with a mix of floral potpourri, sweet cocoa, roasted and candied nuts. Full but suave on the palate with rich, plush tannins and medium/low acidity. Plummy, saucy black fruit mixed with cocoa, coffee, sweet pipe tobacco and herbs. Lovely, juicy, rich but accessible. 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot, 10% Malbec, 10% Carmenere, 10% Cabernet Franc, aged 36 months in oak. (414 views) |
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The Jason Stephens Story
Our wine mission is simple: To produce the best wines from select vineyards with unique attributes. We'd like to invite you to learn more about our vineyards, our people, and our approach of crafting friendly, flavorful and balanced wines. We are devoted to our customers, and take tremendous pride in delivering consistent quality and value in our distinctive wines.Each vintage we produce the best quality wines available, while maintaining our commitment to value. The difference is that things don't stop with our quality wine. We are about the entire experience of enjoying wine, whether you are at home sharing a bottle with friends and family or at a restaurant - we want you to have fine times with our fine wines.
History
Persistence pays off. As a bootstrapped, grass-roots winery, Jason Stephens has quickly grown into an up and coming label, and one of the best kept secrets in Northern California. Relying on the quality of the wine and investments in sweat equity, Jason Stephens has built a foundation of great wines and a unique personality. Our founders' passion for soft, elegant, and complex wines drives a relentless pursuit to improve our wines vintage after vintage. Our principles are simple. Our customer's come first, which in turn makes our wines come first.
Jason Goelz had a dream of entering into the wine industry with great wines after his education at Cal Poly and starting out as a small lot wine maker. After an exhaustive search for a vineyard with meticulous management and premium grapes, he found and started working with Dorcich Vineyards as winemaker, cellar manager, and sales manager. Initially, he consulted with Dorcich in managing the wines and sales of the wines to other high-end wineries in Napa and throughout California. The consulting arrangement established a strong vineyard manager/ wine maker relationship that is essential in crafting exceptional wines for Jason Stephens.
Like an orchestra, Jason Stephen’s team works in harmony to create the best wines. The vineyard manager knows exactly what to do in the field to make the grapes perfect at harvest based on the desires of the winemaker. After harvest, the winemaker's role to care for the grapes as the mature into superb wines, just as a parent guiding a child into adulthood, brings to life these hand-crafted wines. Today, the wines from this vineyard express its unique wine qualities for premium wines.
The rest of Jason Stephen's success is attributed to family, friends, and most of all, our patrons. Without our discerning fans that enjoy our fine wines, Jason Stephens would be nothing more than another California winery. Our wines are enjoyable now, and for years to come. Our goal is to hand-craft top quality wines for you to share with friends and family.
Fine Wines, Fine Times.
Red 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.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
http://www.discovercaliforniawines.com/regional-wine-organizations/
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