OC Fratello Offline--Stainless Chards And Petite Sirahs (Fratello's Laguna Niguel): Steely, with pear, lemon-lime and fennel. Note--we blind poured this wine and I added a second bottle of this same wine to the lineup. Bottle #2 showed smoky, rich and round, lacking a crispness and while I thought it drank fine, it lacked the lean verve of the typical Inox and I think the vintage showed more with the second bottle, given the round notes and more weightedness.
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5/30/2009 - WetRock wrote:
Blind Unoaked Chardonnay and Petit Sirahs (Fratello's, Laguna Niguel, CA): Served blind. Ripe nose of papaya and banana. Fat palate shows some spritz with an ugly finish. I imagine this has seen better days.
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5/30/2009 - WetRock wrote:
Blind Unoaked Chardonnay and Petit Sirahs (Fratello's, Laguna Niguel, CA): Served blind. Nose shows ripeness in the way of baked fruits. Very ripe yet flat palate.
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5/30/2009 - Frank Murray III wrote:
OC Fratello Offline--Stainless Chards And Petite Sirahs (Fratello's Laguna Niguel): Steely, with pear, lemon-lime and fennel.
Note--we blind poured this wine and I added a second bottle of this same wine to the lineup. Bottle #2 showed smoky, rich and round, lacking a crispness and while I thought it drank fine, it lacked the lean verve of the typical Inox and I think the vintage showed more with the second bottle, given the round notes and more weightedness.
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5/22/2008 - dd wrote:
getting better
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2/20/2008 - mellison wrote: 86 Points
For some reason this bottle just did not have it. Tasted flat and over the hill. Previous bottles were great but this was sub par at best.
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