medium garnet colored.
ripe tart cherry flavors. nice

medium garnet colored. Lean dry cola flavors, medium light bodied

very light, almost watermelon juice colored.
very nice, dry cherry cola and spice flavors. (100% whole clusters?)

fairly light garnet colored.
Very ripe, almost overripe spicy strawberry cola flavors, but yet restrained enough for an elegant drink. (50% whole cluster?)

medium garnet colored. At first you get hit by a fairly big whiff of alcohol. But then, some nice ripe pinot flavors. Consensus was that this could've come out of RRV instead of Chehalem. Didn't finish overly hot (surprisingly)

medium garnet colored.
At first taste, this is like a ripe fizzy cherry soda. The extra bit of CO2 blew off leaving a ripe dark cherry, bigger styled wine. easy to like.

The regular bottling tasted a bit sweeter, with a bit of a sharp bite. nice earthy flavors. not quite as flamboyant as the Botanica.

medium garnet colored. Beautiful earthy, strawberry cola flavors with a fair amount of minerality. But finished with a slightly off-putting tinny note. This otherwise marred what seemed to be quite a nice wine.

fairly light garnet colored.
Incredibly soft, ripe easy upon opening (screw top).
But after a short while much more interesting, earthy, secondary flavors.
This turned out to be my WOTN.

some very upfront prickly chemical acidity. An odd mix of flavors - strong grapefruit peel and cherry cough syrup. Interesting, but this didn't seem to age well. (Almost) universally panned and dumped by the group tonight.

Very ripe, sorta secondary flavors, with just a hint of residual oak.
Despite the ripeness, this actually drinks more elegantly than it would suggest, but just a bit of heat in the finish detracts in the end.

dark dense scarlet with a fair amount of sediment. Some smoky ripe dark berry flavors. Still fairly nascent (Blind, I thought it was the 09 or 10). I think this will be fantastic with time (perhaps a lot of time).