2008 Covenant Red C (Kosher)

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  4/1/2013 - raccah Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Yet another solid wine from Jeff and Jon of Covenant Winery. This wine was enjoyed on Passover, the day of the splitting of the Red Sea, so it was an appropriate play on words.
  
  This is a classic Covenant with great balance, insane herbaceous notes and red and black fruit that really goes far. This wine reminds me more and more of the Flam Cabernet Reserve and the Four Gates Cabernet - though without the weight of either of them. More the concentrated herb and fruit that are attention grabbing. Also, it is starting to throw sediment - so watch out.
  
  The nose starts off with more herb than spice hawker in the Shuk, followed by nice licorice, nice red fruit, raspberry, and black currant. The mouth makes you pucker with still searing tannin, insane concentration of ripe blackberry, cassis, black plum, rich forest floor that reaches up and grabs you, followed by black cherry, spicy oak, and more tannin. The finish is long and dirty and spicy with black pepper, mineral, graphite, cloves, tobacco, hints of chocolate, and eucalyptus that lingers long with tannin, black fruit, and herb - BRAVO!!!

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  7/6/2012 - Isaac C Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Enjoyed this one a lot, smooth and soft tannins with a lot of fruitiness in this full bodied wine. Decanted it through the vinturi twice before drinking and it needed it. Was just as good the next day.

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  9/29/2011 - Backdoctor wrote: 90 Points

  solid cab, not as complex as its big brother, but very good wine.

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  4/24/2011 - jontabak Likes this wine: 90 Points

  The 2008 is admittedly the first vintage of the Red C that caught my attention. Deep purple in color with notes of blackberry and cherry on the nose. On the palate, tons of black fruit, licorice, and hints of raspberry followed by spicy oak. Tannins are in full force and the finish is long and spicy. Drink it now if you enjoy an in-your-face experience or wait for the wine to mellow a bit over the next year. Either way, enjoy!

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  3/17/2011 - gr8r84u wrote: 91 Points

  Kings' Table Out of the Closet (Neil's House): Among my favorite kosher wines. This is an excellent wine that is always a crowd pleaser.

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