Community Tasting Notes 5

• aronw wrote:

  May 3, 2009 - Everything Barbera should be.

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• jonb72 wrote: 90 points

  October 19, 2007 - loved it with pasta, eggplant and louvar. Rich, smooth, well balanced and surprised with new flavors developping through the course of the night. Definitely will buy more.

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• BigTarheel wrote: 88 points

  September 13, 2007 - Very nice, this CA take on Barbera offerred wonderful smoothness. Certainly, far richer and more fruit-forward than its Italian counterpart, the Seghesio's still know the secret to making rich & balanced reds.

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• DrewGoin wrote: 88 points

  July 26, 2007 - Brought to a family dinner without prior knowledge of the main course - ribeye steaks with a mushroom / butter sauce. The Seghesio Barbera worked fairly well; the beef highlighted the wine's fresh grape and cherry fruit flavors. Due to Barbera's lively acidity, this wine needs food and, although I allowed it to chill in the fridge for about twenty minutes (lowering serving temperature to around 65-70 degrees F), the alcohol remained a little too assertive. Maybe it was the fact that this wine packs an abv of 15.4%....
  
  I will continue to buy this wine, as it is always a crowd-pleaser. Barberas are usually too light to stand up to a steak. However, the Seghesio winery's overall fondness for crafting full-bodied, high-alcohol red wines with generous new-oak flavors allowed this marriage to take place in relative harmony.
  
  I have tasted several California Barbera-based wines in recent years. I have found those from Seghesio (in Sonoma County) and Montevina (in Amador County) to be the most pleasing. I only wish that the Seghesio winemaking regime utilized less new oak in the creation of this wine and their Zinfandels. In regard to 2005 Zinfandels, gone are the caramel richness and dark, jammy fruits found in the monsters of 2004. Therefore, winemakers have nowhere to hide high alcohol levels. I am not opposed to high-proof wines as long as the flavors still deliver some sense of balance.

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• Winetex wrote: 84 points

  July 25, 2007 - This wine seemed varietally correct (ie tasted like a Barbera) with decent aromas and flavors. Unfortunately the wine was completely unbalanced with the 15.4% alcohol overwhelming and ruining the finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Seghesio Family Vineyards
• Varietal Barbera
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma County
• UPC Code 088254758915

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• In Cellars 11 (14%)
• Consumed 69 (86%)

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