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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.6 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by bradfriedlander on 11/28/2023 & rated 92 points: Delicious. Many layers of flavors. Great food wine. (521 views) | | | Tasted by Eamc2 on 6/1/2023 & rated 92 points: Agree, it has a great deal of tannins. But it’s also full of dark fruit and is well balanced. Probably can age a bit, but it’s delicious now. (829 views) | | | Tasted by kcook111 on 9/24/2022: Rich and heavy (1308 views) | | | Tasted by Zuperdaave on 6/10/2022 & rated 95 points: Delicious! (1369 views) | | | Tasted by Lord Gumbles on 6/5/2022 & rated 85 points: Let this one age. Opened one bottle June 2022 and decanted for 45 mins - an hour. Super dry. Suggest opening no earlier than 2024. (1242 views) | | | Tasted by mdennison on 6/3/2022 & rated 94 points: Still my favorite winery. (1141 views) | | | Tasted by mdennison on 6/2/2022 & rated 94 points: Still my favorite winery. (996 views) |
| Herman Story Producer website2020 Herman Story Milk & Honey2020 MILK & HONEY
VARIETALS: 45% Tempranillo, 32% Syrah, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Petit Verdot
AVA: Paso Robles
AGING: 18 months in 90% New French Oak
TASTING NOTES: There’s a photo on the wall for each bowler who’s scored 300 at Gold Country Lanes—and they’re all him. Bushy mustache, pleated khakis, with a beachball gut, he’s just failed to get the shoe attendant’s number and bumped into a rack of pearlescent eight-pounders. But god, you’ve never seen a more graceful four-step approach. And when his red-appleskin ball hits the pins, it’s an explosion of dried red fruit, dark chocolate, and candied cherry. Ripe fruit power and spicy poise in equal measure. You’re hanging another photo before he even hits the tenth frame.
DRINK NOW: 1 hour decant CELLAR: Now through 7-8 yearsTempranillo BlendTempranillo is the backbone of wines made ihvhhcn the best well-known Spanish regions Rioja and Ribera del Duero, but is also grown as far afield as Mexico and Australia.
As a flavor profile, red fruits like strawberries and cherries can predominate - but with a rustic edge. The Many wines made from Tempranillo will spend a few years in barrel and bottle before reaching the consumers . Many Tempranillo-based wines see a few years of oak - add that to a few years of bottle and the wine can give a subtle - and occasionaly not-so-subtle - leathery mouthfeel. The combination of the tart fruit and tannins make this wine very food friendly.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
http://www.discovercaliforniawines.com/regional-wine-organizations/
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Central Coast AVA WikipediaPaso Robles Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance
Set apart by unique climate and geography, Paso Robles Wine Country provides prime growing conditions for more than 40 varietals planted over 26,000 acres of vineyards. More than 300 wineries craft this fruit into premium wines, gaining recognition around the world. The fruit, the wines and the distinct environment have quickly made Paso Robles California's third largest and fastest growing wine region. |
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