Years ago, legendary Napa Valley winemaker Andre Tchelistcheff tasted wines from Franciscan’s Oakville estate and suggested that this vineyard would reach its finest expression as a blend in the style of the eminent wines of Bordeaux. Many of the great wines of the world are blends, but when Franciscan started making...
Gary Farrell Cabernet Sauvignon & Merlot 2001
This lush, broadly structured, palate-coating effort is generously endowed with lavish, layered black-cherry/blackberry fruit and classy oak and is further complexed by nuances of chocolate and pepper-spice. While it is hugely gratifying for its intensity, depth, richness and amazing length, the components remain balanced, and wonderfully integrated tannins bring a sense...
Red and black cherry aromas mingle with the scent of roses in this elegant cuvée blended with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, petit verdot, cabernet franc and carmenère. Guenoc continues its Bordeaux traditions with a claret of depth and distinction, including for the first time a small percentage of carmenère, planted in Guenoc...
A generous percentage of Petit Verdot and Malbec in the blend add tantalizing depth to the tannic profile, deepen the color in the glass and enhance richness in the mid-palate. When given time, notes of bergamot, cardamom and blackberry develop as this wine remains smooth and balanced while simultaneously maintaining the...
A generous percentage of Petit Verdot and Malbec in the blend add tantalizing depth to the tannic profile, deepen the color in the glass and enhance richness in the mid-palate. When given time, notes of bergamot, cardamom and blackberry develop as this wine remains smooth and balanced while simultaneously maintaining the...
This wine is made from grapes harvested at Hanna's Red Ranch in the Alexander Valley and Hanna's Bismark Mountain Vineyard high in Sonoma County's Mayacamas mountains. Every year there are certain lots of Bismark Mountain wines that don't quite make the grade for that luxury program, but are delicious wines nonetheless....
Hayman & Hill Interchange 2006
Bright citrus and mineral acidity give the wine a fresh, clean backbone. Complimented by a rich and smooth palate to round out the tropical fruit characteristics.
Hayman & Hill are firm believers that sometimes the sum of the parts are greater than the individual components. Meritage blends are just that, the perfect marriage of several varieties, each grape bringing out the best in each other and representing the region with the utmost quality.
The wines of Hess Mount Veeder reflect Donald Hess' vision of mountain wines with winemaking and grape growing working hand in hand to extract the best expressions of mountain fruit. These wines display balance and elegance with ample strength and structure to age. Mount Veeder is the coolest, southernmost mountain district...
Home Grown Farms Family Harvest Red is: * Syrah
* Barbera
* Petite Sirah Approximately a third of each, field-blend-style, but they keep stirring the pot till it tastes right, so the proportions are liable to change . . . It has been noticed that different aromas flow from the glass...
Horseplay Vineyards Rollicking Red
With a 20-year career crafting great red wines at some of Sonoma and Napa Valley’s leading wineries, Horse Play winemaker Melissa Bates knows how to tame a rambunctious young red. Utilizing traditional and cutting-edge artisan winemaking techniques Melissa fashions Rollicking Red with robust flavors balanced by silky tannins. Five months aging...
Horseplay Vineyards Rollicking Red 3L 2005
With a 20-year career crafting great red wines at some of Sonoma and Napa Valley’s leading wineries, Horse Play winemaker Melissa Bates knows how to tame a rambunctious young red. Utilizing traditional and cutting-edge artisan winemaking techniques Melissa fashions Rollicking Red with robust flavors balanced by silky tannins. Five months aging...
I awoke from my dream, in a state of dispair. I stifled a scream, and let out a swear. I saw her last night, the Lady in Red, Flushed with delight, and clearly unwed. Dancing and swirling, with such practiced ease, Dipping and twirling, like a rose in the breeze. Attired in Rouge, so devishly displayed, She smiled so true, at the wine masquerade. The first of the Incognito brand to join the Michael~David Masquerade was their Viognier. But who would the white mask pair with at a party? The Incognito Rouge was produced to create another enticing mystery for the consumer. The Rouge blend changes every vintage using very mysterious Rhone style varietals....
Bdx-3 is a supple blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Cabernet Franc and 8% Petit Verdot. It is regal in color - a nearly black, purple beauty. The first smell recalls traditional cigar box qualities with intense, concentrated berry liqueur. The flavors are earthy with wild berry and cassis; the structure...
The Cuvée Series was created to allow J. Lohr winemakers a chance to blend small premium lots into cuvées that represent the basic varietals grown in three different areas of Bordeaux. In this case, their Cuvée POM showcases the major varietals of the Pomerol region on the Right Bank. The major...
The 2006 Isosceles is inky purple with a slight red hue around the rim. Aromas of blackberry, black plum, leather, mocha, and cassis combined with layers of caramel, vanilla and a touch of smoke resulting from the extended oak ageing. The entry is filled with red and black fruit. A balance...
The wine has dark ruby color. A bittersweet chocolate note accentuates jammy fruit aromas of raspberry, sweet cherry and plum. The wine is lush and sumptuous on the palate with chocolate, cherry and rich plum flavors. The wine can be drunk now but will further evolve over the next 5 to...
The wine has dark ruby color. A bittersweet chocolate note accentuates jammy fruit aromas of raspberry, sweet cherry and plum. The wine is lush and sumptuous on the palate with chocolate, cherry and rich plum flavors. The wine can be drunk now but will further evolve over the next 5 to...
Kenwood Vintage Red Table Wine 2006
Kenwood’s quality, value-priced red wine is made from grapes grown in the best wine regions of California. The 2006 vintage is a perfect everyday drinking wine, full of ginger and baking spices on the nose and ripe red fruits in the mouth. Gentle tannins and a lively mouthfeel round off this...
Merryvale Profile Reserve 375ml 2001
'Profile', Merryvale's legendary red Bordeaux varietal blend, are the fruition of the best of each vintage Merryvale has to offer. Director of Winemaking Stephen Test prepares these blends by selecting on a lot-by-lot basis and aging in the finest French oak to produce limited quantities of the finished wines as dictated...
Mt. Veeder Reserve Red Wine 2001
Mount Veeder was the first winery in California to have one vineyard planted to all five Bordeaux varietals. The Mount Veeder Reserve is an elegant statement of the winemaking philosophy that blending creates a wine more than the sum of its parts. Crafted from small lots of exceptionally concentrated fruit from...
