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| Drinking window: Drink between 2008 and 2009 (based on 1 user opinion) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 84 pts. and median of 84 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by wilmette vino on 6/30/2009 & rated 86 points: better than I remembered - mostly Merlot with higher red fruit notes and a touch of chocolate underneath. Small bodied, no real complexity or length but nicely balanced and a good quaff for less than $6. (5392 views) | | | Tasted by wilmette vino on 4/1/2009 & rated 84 points: a good mid-week quaffing wine, merlot driven and a bit thin. But honest merlot/cab fruit flavors and finishes fruity and dry. What more can you really expect for $6? I'd consider buying more if I could find it. (5394 views) | | | Tasted by cnr128 on 10/10/2008 & rated 82 points: Surpisingly big, berry nose. Lots of fruit (almost too much), would have preferred with stonger tannins to balance the fruit. Good, drinkable...but not real memorable. (5444 views) |
| 2005 Vintage Ink//Product Description//
Vintage Ink is a delicious blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah from California, with a deep purple-red color. On the nose, it beams with notes of crushed blackberries, blueberry, and hints of vanilla bean. In the mouth, it is as juice bomb with rich, voluptuous black and red berry fruit, along with cranberry and red cherry notes, as well as soft tannins that carry it through nicely into the long-lasting finish.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.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 CountySonoma CountySonoma Coast |
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