Community Tasting Notes 5

• D.Callahan wrote: 90 points

  August 27, 2011 - Very nice wine with lasagna. Good cherry fruit on the nose and palate. Some smoke adds interest and the merlot adds a little refinement. The upshot is a slightly more elegant wine than you sometimes get with sangio but still a lot of flavor and good structure. Very good to excellent.

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• BarbaraW wrote:

  January 23, 2011 - Soft, though still has enough linearity to be a great match with food. Good sangiovese fruit and acid but unfortunately I think the merlot (20%) washes it out a bit. I have two more bottles (and many more Palmina reds from 2006 and later) and am in no hurry to drink up.

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• VinoPKM wrote: 89 points

  June 20, 2009 - Night before Father's Day Dinner: This is a great under $20 easy drinking red wine. Great cherry flavors with great amount of acid. This is a very food friendly wine.

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• Amerique wrote: 90 points

  June 20, 2009 - Elegant, smooth, medium-bodied cherry fruit with smokey and burnt cherry flavors, good structure and finish

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• Justthewaiter wrote: 91 points

  April 29, 2009 - I loved this wine. Mostly sangiovese with some merlot, the winery uses the ripasso technique on the grapes, though I'm not sure of the percentage of grapes ripassed. It has a dried fruit quality that I loved, along with a smokey, burnt quality that adds interest without getting overly complex. Good acid to make it food friendly and this kind of structure should improve for another 5 years. I got it for $16 and at that price it was a great buy. Too much more than that and it would start to loose some appeal to me.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Palmina
• Varietal Sangiovese Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Alisos Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Central Coast
• Appellation Santa Barbara County

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• In Cellars 21 (23%)
• Consumed 71 (77%)

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