12/22/23, 3:40 PM - Thanks for your comment and looking forward to seeing your notes. But yes, you’re exactly right…a touch of baby vomit and also some pineapple. I just avoid calling out that descriptor except when it’s really overt :) Not surprising those aromatics are sometimes found together if you have a little hydrolysis of ethyl butryrate to the acid. Hope you enjoy it tonight, cheers!
1/5/23, 6:21 AM - I was only offered the tempranillo again this year. I put the syrah on my wish list, though, which is really the reason I joined in the first place. Only second year receiving an allocation so hopefully next year. I was happy to pick this up though because I don’t have a ton of tempranillo in my cellar and this was a lovely bottle!
8/16/22, 7:21 PM - Thanks for your note, I completely agree. I suppose it depends how you score wines, but this would easily be 89+ from Suckling. Is this world class Rioja? Absolutely not. Is this a good example of Rioja at an exceptional price? Absolutely.
12/30/21, 11:29 PM - Yes, this was the Langhe Nebbiolo that I was commenting on.
2/14/18, 2:54 PM - Thanks for the correction. Do you know if Benoit was only the winemaker for the 2013 vintage then? I just assumed Benoit was still making this since him and Kimberly are so close.
2/14/18, 6:04 PM - I actually was under the impression that 2014 was the inaugural year as well, although WineSearcher and CellarTracker both list a 2013 Tether (albeit with very little traction so it could have been mis-entered). However, when I first bought this wine back in late 2016 (and it was the 2014 vintage for sure, I still have the bottle) all the press material touted Benoit as the winemaker (and many retails still state this online). I suspect that Benoit turned over the helm to Ana at some point while 2014 may have still been in barrel. After all, winemaking doesn't happen overnight, right? ;-)
1/16/18, 7:14 PM - Thanks for the note, jdponfil! That's a great question, and I am eager to see what time will do. I haven't been drinking K Vintners wines for long enough to know what more than a couple years of bottle age tends to do with these in particular, but in my (albeit fairly limited) experience drinking syrah from full-throttle Northern Rhone producers, alcohol definitely tends to integrate itself and mellow out with time in bottle. Hoping we find the same in this exceptional effort! Cheers!
12/18/17, 9:09 PM - Jim,Just had the 05 Peter Michael Les Pavots (also in magnum format) a few weeks ago at our post harvest dinner with the Amici crew. Always fun to see when our notes cross paths :-)
12/17/17, 7:21 PM - I couldn’t agree more. Such a bummer
7/12/17, 9:41 PM - Sorry for the belated reply. I would be lying to say this doesn't have distinctively Californian character to it, but I think its fair to say that this wine is well balanced, especially compared to the overtly ripe and alcoholic bottles from some wineries and vineyards in Napa. This wine does clock in at 14.7% alcohol, but I think this is a fair and representative value, not a generously rounded down number like some (within the allowed margin of error). The acid on this gives really good balance in my opinion, especially in contrast to much of the valley floor.
7/18/17, 6:49 PM - Oh, don't worry this is NOTHING like Orin Swift. Amici Cabernets are full-bodied for sure, but they aren't like syrup...
6/15/17, 9:44 PM - Ah, yes I suppose that's not a particularly useful descriptor for most. (I am a chemist by training so I sometimes find myself referring to smells of specific molecules I have encountered rather than more useful and common descriptors, my apologies!) The best I can describe it is something like rosemary or sage but a bit mintier (but not to the extreme of eucalyptus or menthol). In reality, camphor is almost certainly one of the many terpenoids that contribute to the aroma of rosemary and many other herbs, so it would probably be more accurate to describe it as rosemary minus other contributing aromatic molecules, but my palate (or nose) is no where near refined enough to be able to do that :-)
4/19/17, 6:08 PM - Yep, I totally agree with you! I have had a variety of Turleys before and have been on their mailing list for about 2 years now so I thought I had fully grasped their style until I encountered this bottle. Not necessarily my favorite, but I enjoyed the surprise and love seeing how much terroir can have an impact :-)
12/25/16, 6:38 PM - Interesting that they claim it as 100% grenache when it's really a blend, especially since they do have other Rhone-style blends in their line-up, such as Charlotte...any clue why they did this? May I ask how you found out this actually has syrah in the blend? Thanks so much for your helpful reviews!
12/28/16, 7:41 PM - Interesting, thanks so much for your diligent research! :-)
2/22/16, 4:00 PM - I'm happy to see that you said this wine could pass as a grenache or syrah. My girlfriend picked up this bottle and had me blind taste it to guess/deduce the varietal and origin (just a game we like to play) and I was convinced it was a grenache/syrah blend most likely from the new world but possibly from Rhone. I'm glad I'm not the only one!
1/12/16, 8:21 AM - I completely agree, I was very disappointed with this wine--despite typically being a big fan of Ridge--and am very curious why my experience with this wine was so different than the vast majority of other reviewers.
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