This is a new winery for me, and it’s a promising start. The wine is decadently rich in cassis, cherries, milk chocolate and vanilla flavors, but it has the structural integrity of a fine wine. While acidity is soft, the tannins have the grip of cherry skins, while oak adds its own tannic complexities.
— S.H.
(9/1/2007)
Dry and tannic, with a hard mouthfeel and not enough richness to get past the goal line. Shows blackberry, black currant, herb and oak flavors, and a green herbaceousness suggesting dill and sage. Not an ager, so drink up.
— S.H.
(2/1/2010)
Ripe, soft and forward in pie-filling blackberry, cherry, dark chocolate and spice flavors, this has rich, earthy tannins. Drink now–2010.
— S.H.
(9/1/2008)
Strong, almost overpowering in fruit, which dominates at the cost of balance. Shows massive blackberries, currants and cherries, as well as sweet oak, but you wish there were more subtlety.
— S.H.
(12/1/2009)