Color: Deep dark garnet; Nose: Black cherry, pickles; Mid-palate: full-bodied, smooth tannins, no hard edges, roasted meats, not as fruity as 2005 so rated down a point; Finish: is medium to long and silky. Another winner from Henry's Drive.
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Unlike others having rated this wine, I found this wine very worthy. It has a huge nose that has incredibly obvious red licorice as predominant, with blueberry coming through as secondary. But the palate is unmistakably Old World - marinated roasted meat, earthy, mushrooms, with some vegetable (black olive) aspect coming through. This is a good QPR wine.
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This wine was disjointed with virtually no fruit flavor, but instead had heavy black pepper on the mid-palate. It was not a wine I wanted to consume as a stand-alone, so I quickly prepared a very spicy, tomato-based beef dish that tempered this wines hard edges considerably, which actually made it pleasurable. I can't recommend this wine. But if you have purchased it based on its affordability, then certainly have it with something that equals it in terms of it's lack of sophistication - pizza, sloppy joe's, barbecued pork steaks, etc. Only then do I think this wine is consumable.
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2006 Henry's Drive Pillar Box Red
5/12/2007 - mworkman wrote: 89 Points
Color: Deep dark garnet; Nose: Black cherry, pickles; Mid-palate: full-bodied, smooth tannins, no hard edges, roasted meats, not as fruity as 2005 so rated down a point; Finish: is medium to long and silky. Another winner from Henry's Drive.
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2005 Domaine de Couron Côtes du Rhône
5/1/2007 - mworkman wrote: 90 Points
Unlike others having rated this wine, I found this wine very worthy. It has a huge nose that has incredibly obvious red licorice as predominant, with blueberry coming through as secondary. But the palate is unmistakably Old World - marinated roasted meat, earthy, mushrooms, with some vegetable (black olive) aspect coming through. This is a good QPR wine.
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2005 Bodegas Olivares Jumilla Panarroz
4/23/2007 - mworkman wrote: 83 Points
This wine was disjointed with virtually no fruit flavor, but instead had heavy black pepper on the mid-palate. It was not a wine I wanted to consume as a stand-alone, so I quickly prepared a very spicy, tomato-based beef dish that tempered this wines hard edges considerably, which actually made it pleasurable. I can't recommend this wine. But if you have purchased it based on its affordability, then certainly have it with something that equals it in terms of it's lack of sophistication - pizza, sloppy joe's, barbecued pork steaks, etc. Only then do I think this wine is consumable.
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