Community Tasting Note

lyle@vinchicago.com wrote:

Sunday, February 7, 2016 - Tasted in company of two Lynfred Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon ('08 '09) in a contemplative tasting of some local cheapies I had laying around. Natural cork enclosure! This NV Barrel Reserve (from 2012 I believe?) has lots of vanillin-rich wood perfume. Some generic red-wine aromas are here, and a bit of RS seems intentionally left to round out the palate. Red fruited cherry berry with just a whif of green herb, a very light cedary quality. Perceived body is broader than the Lynfred wines, but again-probably a doing of the RS. Tannins are extremely mild by comparison. This would be a far bigger crowd-pleaser, and it is not offensive. On the trailing end of the finish is shows itself as being a very cheap wine. This would do very well in the commercial market as a brand-wine in the sub-$12 segment. With these three wines in particular, it becomes a question of how serious you want to take things. Lynfred fancies making a very 'serious', tannic dry wine. Cooper's has made a less serious, gulper. Good intentions don't always make for what you hoped for, and at some point with cheap sourced fruit from thousands of miles away you just make a gulper.

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