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Blue Rock 2009 Best Barrels Cabernet Sauvignon (Alexander Valley)
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- $95
So young now, it’s all primary fruit, oak and tannins. But It’s a stunner. The fruit is enormous, packing explosive blackberry, black cherry, blueberry and dark chocolate flavors, while oak brings an elaborate smoky sweetness. Feels dramatic and important, and should age well for ten years, at least.
— S.H.
(12/31/2011)
Blue Rock 2007 Best Barrels Cabernet Sauvignon (Alexander Valley)
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- $75
Shows the softness and herbal quality that mark Alexander Valley Cabernet, in the best sense. The wine feels fine and beautiful in the mouth, with the complexity and elegance to pair with great food. Delightful for its cherry, berry, currant, cola and oak flavors. Great now, and should develop over the next five years.
— S.H.
(12/31/2010)
Blue Rock 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon (Alexander Valley)
- $47
This 100% Cab is one to keep an eye on. Lush and ripe in cassis, carob and herb flavors, with a rich tannin and acid structure. Drink now, being careful to decant, but better after 2008 and through 2012.
— S.H.
(3/1/2008)
Blue Rock 2003 Best Barrel Malbec (Alexander Valley)
- $75
Owner Kenny Kahn reserves the “Best Barrel” designation for his best wine. This year it’s a Malbec. Pours inky black, and explodes with blackberry pie filling, chocolate, plum sauce, licorice and cedar aromas. Drinks as powerfully rich as it smells, offering immense flavors and luxuriously smooth, velvety tannins. Very soft. Drink now through 2009 before the fruit…
— S.H.
(12/15/2006)
Blue Rock 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon (Alexander Valley)
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- $35
A beautiful Cabernet, dry, soft and balanced, that will silence objections that California Cab is too strong to drink with food. This wine is fine in tannins, and the blackberries and cherries have a lovely note of herbs. Feels elegant and luxurious. Drink now.
— S.H.
(12/31/2010)
Blue Rock 2005 Best Barrels Cabernet Sauvignon (Alexander Valley)
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- $95
Says Red Wine on the label, but it’s 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, and quite a good one at that. Shows ripe flavors of black currants and cedar that are complex and long-lasting, but it’s also a tannic wine that’s astringent and tight in the mouth. The veteran winemaker Nick Goldschmidt was consultant. Needs time. Best 2010–2013, at least.
— S.H.
(2/1/2009)
Blue Rock 2009 Baby Blue Red (Alexander Valley)
- $25
A lovely wine, drinkable now and over the next few years. Made from Merlot, the two Cabernets and a dash of Syrah, it’s rich and lush in blackberry, blueberry, cured meat, black pepper and cedar flavors, wrapped into smooth, spicy tannins.
— S.H.
(12/31/2011)
Blue Rock 2004 Syrah (Alexander Valley)
- $36
The tannins are dusty and astringent and give the wine a lockdown character, so you’ll want to cellar this one. Aging is no problem. The wine is dry and balanced, with a rich array of blackberry, pomegranate, cola, sweet leather, coffee and spice flavors that have been generously oaked. Should improve by mid-2008 and evolve for another few years.
— S.H.
(3/1/2008)
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