Erba
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Erba 2004 Mountainside Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $55
Despite some fierce mountain tannins, there’s a glamorous elegance to this Cab. It feels and tastes classic, from the fine balance to the ripe black currant and smoky oak flavors that are so deep and long-lasting. Gets better as it warms in the glass. Now through 2012, at least.
— S.H.
(6/1/2009)
Erba 2003 Mountainside Vineyards Syrah (Napa Valley)
- $40
Like the winery’s Cabernet and Merlot—grown in the same Atlas Peak estate vineyard—this is a soft, voluptuous wine, made in the modern style. It’s as rich as a dessert, with cherry, cassis, chocolate, plum pudding, pumpkin pie and datenut bread flavors, although it’s totally dry. It takes a lot of effort and expense to make a wine this deliciously balanced. Drink now.
— S.H.
(6/1/2007)
Erba 2003 Mountainside Vineyards Merlot (Napa Valley)
- $35
Shows the earthiness that always characterized Atlas Peak Bordeaux reds, but today’s riper approach gives the wine impossibly rich cherry jam, crème de cassis and milk chocolate flavors, wrapped into the softest, sweetest tannins. It’s almost like a dessert wine, except it’s dry and balanced.
— S.H.
(6/1/2007)
Erba 2004 Mountainside Vineyards Merlot (Napa Valley)
- $35
Dense, balanced and young, this is an impressive Merlot that satisfies for its wealth of fruit. Explosive in cherry jam, cassis and rum-soaked chocolate cake, it’s dry and soft and complicated, a wine very much in the expensive Napa style of modern red wines.
— S.H.
(6/1/2007)
Erba 2005 Mountainside Vineyards Proprietary Red Wine (Napa Valley)
- $50
Tasted at the age of 38 months, Erba’s Bordeaux blend is a dense, tannicly dry wine. It has well-ripened flavors of blackberries, currants, mocha and cedar. If you drink it now, decant. Best before 2011, before the fruit falls out.
— S.H.
(6/1/2009)
Erba 2003 Mountainside Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $50
The vineyard is on Atlas Peak. Modern winemaking has softened the tannins, while long hangtime steers the fruit towards ultraripe cherries and chocolate. It’s a flashy wine with lots of new French oak, meant to impress, but it may pall after a few sips.
— S.H.
(6/1/2007)
Erba 2004 Mountainside Vineyards Syrah (Napa Valley)
- $40
Even at the age of four-plus years, this Syrah tastes fresh and young. It has strong tannins and crisp acidity, and the blackberry, cherry and chocolate fruit flavors veer toward jam. Will it improve with age? It’s a gamble, but try sometime in 2010.
— S.H.
(6/1/2009)
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