Community Tasting Notes 9

• cos82 Likes this wine: 90 points

  September 10, 2016 - Found a couple bottles of this in my cellar and decided to try one at local Italian BYOB. Didn't expect much and was pleasantly surprised. Light cherry red in color. Pleasant mostly cherry nose. Palate was balanced and soft consisting of sweet and sour cherry with some leather and a tad of licorice. Nice with pasta with a sauce of roasted eggplant, peppers, onion and fresh tomatoes. Very enjoyable.

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• Zweder wrote: 86 points

  January 2, 2013 - Monthly Tasting Group EEE #015; California (@ BD): In the bouquet ripe red forest fruits, some sweetness and perfume. On the palate cherry candy stick, licorice, roses, ok acidity and some bitterness. Hardly any tannin. Ok and clean wine.

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• cooberp wrote: 87 points

  March 12, 2012 - Would have thought this was Pinot Noir blind. Very light, transparent color and body. Nose of red berries and violets, and zesty on the palate. But this is pretty flat after the attack--after the very first taste of each sip you're just kind of waiting for it to go down. And there's certainly no complexity to speak of. A thoughtless glugger, and priced like one.

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• jusdavi wrote: 88 points

  February 8, 2012 - Agree with j3w on this one. Beaujolais nouveau all the way. I much prefer this to the French Beaujolais nouveau at the same price point ($15). Give it an hour before drinking. Don't pop and pour, yuck!

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• patsox wrote: 91 points

  February 7, 2012 - Different - spicy, exotic and utterly delicious!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Heitz Cellar
• Varietal Grignolino
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Code 098803030812

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• In Cellars 12 (23%)
• Consumed 41 (77%)

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