North Coast Wines
Pride Mountain 2006 Merlot (Sonoma-Napa)
- $56
Made in the Pride style, this is a big, powerful wine that should age well. It’s enormously ripe, with flamboyant cassis, cherry pie filling, milk chocolate, licorice and smoky oak flavors that are wrapped into thoroughly modern, softly refined tannins. Just beautiful, and should develop through 2012.
— S.H.
(7/1/2009)
Pride Mountain 2005 Reserve Claret Red (Sonoma-Napa)
- $125
This Bordeaux blend is enormously rich and densely concentrated in mountain fruitiness. It explodes with blackberry, black currant, chocolate, orange zest, roasted almond and sweet new oak flavors, wrapped into extraordinarily fine tannins. Shows a bit of sharpness that could indicate a mild level of volatility. But it’s a dramatic wine that should live for many…
— S.H.
(7/1/2009)
Pey-Marin 2009 The Shell Mound Riesling (Marin County)
- Editors' Choice
- Online Exclusive
- $26
Pey-Marin’s Rieslings have been among the greatest in California, and their 2009 is one of their best yet. The wine is entirely unoaked, and did not undergo the malolactic fermentation, but it was aged on its lees. That allows the acidity to star, and what brilliant acidity it is. Rich and bone dry in steel, mineral, slate, citrus, white peach and Champagne yeast…
— S.H.
(2/1/2011)
Pride Mountain 2008 Merlot (Sonoma-Napa)
- $56
It may sound strange, but this wine tastes like the liquid equivalent of a buttered toast bacon sandwich, spread with a little blackberry jam. However it sounds, it’s really delicious.
— S.H.
(8/1/2011)
Pride Mountain 2007 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Sonoma-Napa)
- $125
Utterly delicious, so soft and refined. It’s like blackberry and cherry pastries and cookies melted into wine, enhanced with squirts of cassis, anisette and chocolate sauce. Defines the California, and moreover the Pride Mountain, style, a flashy, flamboyant wine to drink over the next few years.
— S.H.
(8/1/2011)
Pride Mountain 2007 Reserve Claret (Sonoma-Napa)
- $125
This is a big, hard, tannic wine. It’s so buttoned up, the question is whether it will age. Most of the signs say yes. It’s gigantically rich in blackberries, cassis and chocolate, with a berried sweetness accented by the caramel of toasted oak. Acidity is just fine. On the other hand, the alcohol is notable, giving it peppery heat. A very fine, flashy, impressive…
— S.H.
(8/1/2011)
Chandon NV Etoile Rosé Sparkling (Sonoma-Napa)
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- $50
Based on Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, this luxe rosé bubbly is delicious to drink now. It’s likeable for the array of strawberry, orange and lime flavors, with that savory sparkling wine yeastiness, and the bubbles are smooth and refined. Will set off many different foods, but sushi is a definite hit.
— S.H.
(2/1/2012)
Pride Mountain 2008 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa-Sonoma)
- Cellar Selection
- Online Exclusive
- $130
Abundantly rich in fruit, this Cabernet shows its California origins in the incredibly ripe blackberry, cherry and chocolate flavors. It’s sweet, almost like pie filling, except the finish is thoroughly dry. Thick mountain tannins make for astringency, suggesting ageworthiness. The window of drinkability looks like 2014-2016.
— S.H.
(7/1/2012)
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