Sebastiani Merlot Sonoma County 2008
A warm, dry spring melded into a picture-perfect summer, with warm temperatures, cool breezes and very few hot or cold days. However, their harvest was thrown into overdrive during the last week of August, when temperatures spiked into the triple digits! A normal, ten to twelve week long harvest was compressed...
This wine has a beautiful medium to dark garnet color with dried cherry, strawberry compote, vanilla and mocha aromatics. The flavor is balanced between juicy, cherry like fruit and toasted oak. This Pinot has finesse and finishes with lively acidity, firm tannins and well-integrated oak. It is the most Burgundian Sonoma...
Sequana Pinot Noir Sundawg Ridge Vineyard 2009
One of the smallest appellations on the Sonoma coast, Green Valley of Russian River Valley has a cool climate, a result of the fog that comes from the Pacific Ocean each evening. The cooler weather and well-drained Goldridge soils create an idyllic climate for growing Pinot Noir, yielding complex, elegant wines...
Siduri Pinot Noir Rosella's Vineyard 2010
The Rosella’s Vineyard is in the Santa Lucia Highlands Appellation of Monterey County. It is west of the town of Gonzales and was planted in 1999 to multiple clones of Pinot Noir (and some Chardonnay and Syrah). The vineyard is owned by Gary and Rose Franscioni. Siduri has been purchasing grapes...
Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley 2008
The 2008 vintage featured a dry spring with serious frost damage in some vineyards and cool bloom-time conditions, which, coupled together, produced a light crop. It was a mild summer with a few heat spikes in July, August and early September. Harvest was about nine days earlier than normal due to...
Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2008
Silver Oak's 2008 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is a complex and layered expression of California Cabernet. The wine has a dark garnet color and is bursting with fruit even as it is poured. On the palate, it has an extraordinarily rich attack, a satin texture and an exuberant expression of fruit...
Silver Palm Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Long celebrated as the king of red wine grapes, Cabernet Sauvignon originated in the Bordeaux region of France, but today produces superb wines throughout the world, especially in the renowned wine valleys of northern California. A late-ripening variety, it produces small, deeply colored berries that yield rich, long-lived wines with concentrated...
