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Venteux 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon (Paso Robles)
- $48
Soft and luscious, with a sweet peppermint patty taste firming up the blackberries, currants, pepper and cedar flavors. Shows real discernment and class. Drink in the next five years.
— S.H.
(3/1/2009)
Venteux 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon (Paso Robles)
- $48
This Cab is soft and lush with cherry, red currant and anise flavors that linger long into a spicy finish. It gains extra points for the tannin-acid structure, which is so easy to like.
— S.H.
(7/1/2013)
Venteux 2010 Mourvèdre (Paso Robles)
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- $32
Mourvèdre is a very difficult variety to get right, but Venteux’s 2010 is right up there with the state’s best. It’s dry and medium bodied, with complex cherry, mocha, licorice and bacon flavors, wrapped into smooth tannins. Might even gain some traction with 2–3 years in the cellar.
— S.H.
(7/1/2013)
Venteux 2010 Estate Grown Syrah (Paso Robles)
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- $46
This is an enormously rich, extracted wine, that’s vast in cherries, blackberries, currants, chocolate and oak flavors. Yet it has balancing acidity and tannins. Best now and over the next few years, especially a great barbecued steak or leg of lamb.
— S.H.
(7/1/2013)
Venteux 2010 Cuvée Estate Grown Red (Paso Robles)
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- $48
This darkly colored, smooth blend of Syrah and Petite Sirah is widely appealing. It’s soft and luscious with dark chocolate, blackberry jam and oak flavors that are heady and mouth filling. Despite an official alcohol level of 13.2% abv, it’s feels a little hot.
— S.H.
(7/1/2013)
Venteux 2006 Estate Petite Sirah (Paso Robles)
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- $45
Here’s a lush young Petite Sirah brimming with blackberry jam, cherry liqueur, dark chocolate and licorice flavors that taste a little sweet. It’s tannic and immature now, but should age well for up to a decade.
— S.H.
(3/1/2009)
Venteux 2007 Starr Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon (Paso Robles)
- $48
This is a very big, elaborate Cabernet whose main feature is fruity flavor. It’s explosive in blackberry, black currant, cassis and dark chocolate, accented with sweet, smoky oak. Made in the modern cult style, it’s a little too sharp in the finish, but the richness is impressive.
— S.H.
(11/1/2010)
Venteux 2006 Raucous Red (Paso Robles)
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- $32
This Bordeaux-Rhône blend is quite soft and lush. It has chocolaty flavors of mashed ripe blackberries, currants, plum jelly and black pepper, wrapped into exceedingly finely ground tannins. Drink now.
— S.H.
(3/1/2009)
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