Much better than my previous bottle. Nose of mellow red fruits. The complex palate shows blueberries, plums, cherries, roast meat, anise. Fine tannins, could still stand to soften a bit. Great acidity, good balance. Perhaps the faintest bit of heat. Long, deep finish of dark fruits. Hard to project this wine from here. Could improve for a couple of years or just fall apart. On balance I would drink over the next year and give it a hour or so decant.
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Hard to get a handle on this wine. It started out quite well. A lovely nose of violets. Rich fruit, blackberries, currants, pepper. Polished tannins, nice acidity, decent balance. Finishes long and gradual, blueberries and warm spice. I thought it would go out another 3 or 4 years. But sitting with the wine over dinner, it started to fade rather quickly, becoming harsh on the palate. Bottom line: I'd drink these up and not linger over them. This dropped from an initial impression of a 90 point wine to an 84 or 83 point wine. Overall, probably an 85.
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Pop and pour. A "big" wine as my wife proclaimed with a decent amount of fruit, extract, and yes still some oak spice still showing. Even so, the wine is balanced with a kick of acid and some remaining. I do enjoy these wines on their own as they are just so darn tasty.
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Spiced cherries, plum, and old leather. Quaffable and easygoing on the nose and front end but longer than expected and more sultry and 3 dimensional on the back half. It has lost some fruit power but has not reached a state of medium bodied elegance. Somewhat more expressive aromatics would take this to the next level.
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Take this with a grain of salt because my palate has been off due to medication but seems 'flat' to me. Pop and pour. Gamy, meaty, old leather, red fairly bright fruit but somewhat dulling and lifeless to my palate. Acid seems to be there and decent balance but maybe it just needs time. Will update. Drank over 2+ hrs...just never really perked up. Just plain flat mouthfeel. A little disappointed...but it might just be my palate.
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Initially this wine was a bit coarse with a lack of interest, but after three days (drinking a little and keeping refrigerated in the meantime) it became wonderfully delicious and smooth like velvet. I suspect this means this wine has many years of life and will probably be best in a few years.
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Opened yesterday, save the remainder glass for today. Last night, I recall it as juicy, with some red fruited acidity and resolved palate. Tonight, the aromatics suggest Rhone, throwing off a whiff of saddle leather. The fruit shows a lot of dark-tinged raspberry tonight, with a tang that was similar to yesterday, too. The same sweet leather follows into the palate, then the juicy cherry note I mentioned from yesterday. For me, there isn't a lot of structure here, as this is leaning towards the more gentle, juicy side of things. This is my only bottle and given where the wine is right now, I'm glad I opened it. There is enough acidity here that the wine should endure longer but I don't find much tannin. My advice then is get after it and enjoy the tangy, Mourvedre goodness.
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Easy drinking, ripe, red fruit and pepper Rhone ish type blend. Nothing really distinctive stands out, but there is also nothing bad about it either. Simple, though elegant, and a little sweet. Not sure time improves these. Drink.
Popped and poured, this showed red berries, cherries, and red apples with accents of cola, char, brown spices and caramel initially. Seems like a lot of oak influence but the website says 15% new French. Not very tannic to my taste, but the wine shows pretty good acid. With a couple hours of air, the fruit turns a little darker, the wine puts on a little weight and loses the caramel (a good thing). It seems more integrated with a little air, but it is hard for me to say how or if this might age. This was my only bottle, but if I had more I'd decant for an hour or two or wait another year before opening. Ann says it is just ok.
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For a mixed varital field blend, this bottle really brings the thunder... If you like the Mouvedre, then this bottle has those aspects, pluse a deep and full-bodied approach. Lots of black and blue fruit, some bramble action, some spice, and leather. Real Dark color, some tannin. This has alot going on, and really enjoyed this bottle with our mixed Veggie and Pizza. The black olives of the pizza played so well with this wine. Thank you Mike Officer!
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Not sure what to make of this. Reading the other TN's seems like I had an entirely different wine. Maybe this bottle was flawed, as it was all about mineral, graphite, a bit of wood, but very little fruit. There was a sour spine to it which had something almost mechanical to it (for lack of a better descriptor), like cleaning fluid. Was this a bad bottle or just way too young? it sure wasn't a good showing. Cork was fine, I double decanted, about 2 hours before serving, temp. was good. Nothing like the 2010 Carlisle Bedrock Zin I served 2 nights earlier which had plenty of black fruit with lots going on.
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Opens with a burst of rose petal and red raspberry aromas. Nice up front fruit followed by anise, lavender, leather. Medium body, good mouthfeel with just a enough acidity for balance. Mild tannins on the finish. One the best Two Acres in recent memory - a complete package. Should hold up quite a few more years, but drinking nicely now.
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Still a bit young, gritty tannins, good acidity and structure for aging. I think the fruit needs some time to shine through, it's there and noticeable but not completely in balance with the wine yet.
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I was desperate! I was at a meeting of the Board of Directors of a bank, their holiday party was in three hours, and a few directors were already asking me about what wine I had brought for them to drink that night, and I knew that the 2005 Outpost Cab wasn't going to be enough. I rushed back to my office and grabbed this, which had migrated there from home by accident. Popped and poured once the Outpost was gone. Wow. Great balance, great red and black fruit, extreme complexity, much more ready to drink than I deserved, smooth almost silly mouth feel, and a mixture of other flavors in the background that we're hard to distinguish precisely while standing in the middle of 75 people holding a cheap hotel wine glass. This is a blend of 6 grapes, the last of which is listed as peloursin. Gee, that's a new one. Mike Officer, who seems from 90 minutes with him at his winery in the picturesque industrial warehouse in Santa Rosa to be not just extremely nice but incredibly knowledgeable, told us about his genetic tests to try to figure out what is in some of the fields. Maybe that's how he found that grape. This is a wonderful effort.
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7/17/2023 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 90 Points
Drinking nicely but not as well as bottle drunk in 2020. Drink up.
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5/30/2023 - Mootsie Likes this wine: 92 Points
Deep garnet color. Nice floral nose. Dark fruits, tapenade, anise, pepper. Feels like it could go 5-7+ yet.
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1/21/2022 - jfkwines wrote:
Pop and pour to replace a different flawed wine at dnner. Drank well but could have used more air time.
No score given
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5/2/2021 - kgott2 Likes this wine: 94 Points
One of the best Two Acres I’ve had in years.
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12/13/2020 - Ed B Likes this wine: 91 Points
PnP and drank after 30 minutes. Rich. Nice spice. Excellent.
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12/6/2020 - Charlie C Likes this wine: 89 Points
Much better than my previous bottle. Nose of mellow red fruits. The complex palate shows blueberries, plums, cherries, roast meat, anise. Fine tannins, could still stand to soften a bit. Great acidity, good balance. Perhaps the faintest bit of heat. Long, deep finish of dark fruits. Hard to project this wine from here. Could improve for a couple of years or just fall apart. On balance I would drink over the next year and give it a hour or so decant.
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11/9/2020 - dlduchon Likes this wine: 88 Points
Nice Mourvèdre nose. Good structure and lingering finish. A bit simple, lack complexity. Perhaps unidimensional.
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8/8/2020 - texaswinelover wrote:
Popped and poured. Drank with bbq chicken. Delicious ripe fruit with enough gamy quality. 10 years and counting. Caught this in a great place tonight.
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6/16/2020 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 92 Points
Drsnk with leftovrer braised pork. Delicious as usual. Drink or hold.
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5/14/2020 - Charlie C wrote: 85 Points
Hard to get a handle on this wine. It started out quite well. A lovely nose of violets. Rich fruit, blackberries, currants, pepper. Polished tannins, nice acidity, decent balance. Finishes long and gradual, blueberries and warm spice. I thought it would go out another 3 or 4 years. But sitting with the wine over dinner, it started to fade rather quickly, becoming harsh on the palate. Bottom line: I'd drink these up and not linger over them. This dropped from an initial impression of a 90 point wine to an 84 or 83 point wine. Overall, probably an 85.
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5/15/2019 - dougie Likes this wine: 91 Points
Juicy and not jammy. Big and beautiful. A few years left.
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12/20/2018 - budman wrote: 92 Points
Lovely fruit. Long finish.
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12/2/2018 - EhrlichDY Likes this wine:
Pop and pour. A "big" wine as my wife proclaimed with a decent amount of fruit, extract, and yes still some oak spice still showing. Even so, the wine is balanced with a kick of acid and some remaining. I do enjoy these wines on their own as they are just so darn tasty.
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3/4/2018 - silton Likes this wine: 90 Points
Spiced cherries, plum, and old leather. Quaffable and easygoing on the nose and front end but longer than expected and more sultry and 3 dimensional on the back half. It has lost some fruit power but has not reached a state of medium bodied elegance. Somewhat more expressive aromatics would take this to the next level.
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8/2/2017 - texaswinelover wrote:
Take this with a grain of salt because my palate has been off due to medication but seems 'flat' to me. Pop and pour. Gamy, meaty, old leather, red fairly bright fruit but somewhat dulling and lifeless to my palate. Acid seems to be there and decent balance but maybe it just needs time. Will update. Drank over 2+ hrs...just never really perked up. Just plain flat mouthfeel. A little disappointed...but it might just be my palate.
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1/5/2017 - zheem Likes this wine: 92 Points
Initially this wine was a bit coarse with a lack of interest, but after three days (drinking a little and keeping refrigerated in the meantime) it became wonderfully delicious and smooth like velvet. I suspect this means this wine has many years of life and will probably be best in a few years.
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6/13/2016 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Opened yesterday, save the remainder glass for today. Last night, I recall it as juicy, with some red fruited acidity and resolved palate. Tonight, the aromatics suggest Rhone, throwing off a whiff of saddle leather. The fruit shows a lot of dark-tinged raspberry tonight, with a tang that was similar to yesterday, too. The same sweet leather follows into the palate, then the juicy cherry note I mentioned from yesterday. For me, there isn't a lot of structure here, as this is leaning towards the more gentle, juicy side of things. This is my only bottle and given where the wine is right now, I'm glad I opened it. There is enough acidity here that the wine should endure longer but I don't find much tannin. My advice then is get after it and enjoy the tangy, Mourvedre goodness.
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5/29/2016 - wetlandwino wrote: 90 Points
Enjoyable wine.
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9/6/2015 - Mootsie Likes this wine: 89 Points
Easy drinking, ripe, red fruit and pepper Rhone ish type blend. Nothing really distinctive stands out, but there is also nothing bad about it either. Simple, though elegant, and a little sweet. Not sure time improves these. Drink.
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1/18/2015 - Outplaying wrote:
Popped and poured, this showed red berries, cherries, and red apples with accents of cola, char, brown spices and caramel initially. Seems like a lot of oak influence but the website says 15% new French. Not very tannic to my taste, but the wine shows pretty good acid. With a couple hours of air, the fruit turns a little darker, the wine puts on a little weight and loses the caramel (a good thing). It seems more integrated with a little air, but it is hard for me to say how or if this might age. This was my only bottle, but if I had more I'd decant for an hour or two or wait another year before opening. Ann says it is just ok.
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11/17/2014 - DavidDay Likes this wine: 91 Points
Red cherries, spices, the fruit seemed to intensify the long the wine sat in the glass.
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11/10/2014 - Bob & Sue Atlanta wrote: 88 Points
Not my favorite Carlisle. Drank over three nights. Typical Carlisle holds up forever. Neve had a corked bottle. Just seemed to be thin?
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7/31/2014 - ravbik Does not like this wine: 86 Points
Light to medium bodied red. Somewhat acidic fruity sour cherries raspberries. Mild tannins. Don't really understand this mixture.
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7/27/2014 - raydawgone Likes this wine: 95 Points
Burnt orange peel on nose, very fragrant. Notes of Asian spice, caramel & red raspberry cobbler. Phenomenal juice!
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1/5/2014 - mpricher wrote: 92 Points
For a mixed varital field blend, this bottle really brings the thunder... If you like the Mouvedre, then this bottle has those aspects, pluse a deep and full-bodied approach. Lots of black and blue fruit, some bramble action, some spice, and leather. Real Dark color, some tannin. This has alot going on, and really enjoyed this bottle with our mixed Veggie and Pizza. The black olives of the pizza played so well with this wine. Thank you Mike Officer!
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12/8/2013 - haldolugr wrote: 90 Points
Graphite and mineral notes hide in the background of a mixed black and red fruit core. Really good and easy to drink. We gave it about an hour decant.
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11/7/2013 - cubswinws Likes this wine: 90 Points
Nice depth and interesting mix of red and black fruits. Still some tannins so could wait another year or so on next bottle.
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7/27/2013 - gzim Does not like this wine:
Not sure what to make of this. Reading the other TN's seems like I had an entirely different wine. Maybe this bottle was flawed, as it was all about mineral, graphite, a bit of wood, but very little fruit. There was a sour spine to it which had something almost mechanical to it (for lack of a better descriptor), like cleaning fluid. Was this a bad bottle or just way too young? it sure wasn't a good showing. Cork was fine, I double decanted, about 2 hours before serving, temp. was good.
Nothing like the 2010 Carlisle Bedrock Zin I served 2 nights earlier which had plenty of black fruit with lots going on.
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7/18/2013 - rdf58 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Opens with a burst of rose petal and red raspberry aromas. Nice up front fruit followed by anise, lavender, leather. Medium body, good mouthfeel with just a enough acidity for balance. Mild tannins on the finish. One the best Two Acres in recent memory - a complete package. Should hold up quite a few more years, but drinking nicely now.
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6/17/2013 - Mike Dildine Likes this wine: 92 Points
This is what old vine mixed black wine are all about!
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6/16/2013 - Silveradoup wrote: 93 Points
Delicious wine, tastes exactly like the CdP that we had last night. Should have bough more of this!
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2/17/2013 - pakabear Likes this wine: 90 Points
Still a bit young, gritty tannins, good acidity and structure for aging. I think the fruit needs some time to shine through, it's there and noticeable but not completely in balance with the wine yet.
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2/14/2013 - Amerique wrote: 91 Points
Medium bodied, mixed berry fruit, slightly sweet, licorice, spicy flavors, very good structure
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12/11/2012 - Jay Hack wrote: 91 Points
I was desperate! I was at a meeting of the Board of Directors of a bank, their holiday party was in three hours, and a few directors were already asking me about what wine I had brought for them to drink that night, and I knew that the 2005 Outpost Cab wasn't going to be enough. I rushed back to my office and grabbed this, which had migrated there from home by accident. Popped and poured once the Outpost was gone. Wow. Great balance, great red and black fruit, extreme complexity, much more ready to drink than I deserved, smooth almost silly mouth feel, and a mixture of other flavors in the background that we're hard to distinguish precisely while standing in the middle of 75 people holding a cheap hotel wine glass. This is a blend of 6 grapes, the last of which is listed as peloursin. Gee, that's a new one. Mike Officer, who seems from 90 minutes with him at his winery in the picturesque industrial warehouse in Santa Rosa to be not just extremely nice but incredibly knowledgeable, told us about his genetic tests to try to figure out what is in some of the fields. Maybe that's how he found that grape. This is a wonderful effort.
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