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Mauritson 2007 Buck Pasture Red (Rockpile)
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- $50
Big, big, big! This is a mountain-grown Bordeaux blend, based on Cabernet Sauvignon, and it’s tremendous all around. Explodes in jammy blackberries, blueberries, currants, cherries and mocha, and the tannins are strong, but refined. Combines elegance and power, and should develop over the next 6–8 years.
— S.H.
(12/31/2010)
Mauritson 2007 Madrone Spring Vineyard Petite Sirah (Rockpile)
- $37
A fabulous Petite Sirah for serious fans of the variety. Shows typically big tannins and high alcohol, with full-bodied, concentrated mountain flavors of blackberries, currants, roasted meat and pepper. Best of all is the balance of its parts, resulting in elegance despite the power.
— S.H.
(12/31/2010)
Rosenblum 2004 Rockpile Road Vineyard Petite Sirah (Rockpile)
- Editors' Choice
- $45
Kent Rosenblum’s customers can’t get enough of this small-production wine, and it’s not hard to tell why. It’s a high-alcohol, double-whammy punch of a wine. Dark, dry, soft and glyceriney, with enormously deep blackberry, blueberry, spicy rum, chocolate and coffee flavors that go on and on.
— S.H.
(12/31/2006)
Mauritson 2006 Rockpile Madrone Spring Vineyard Petite Sirah (Rockpile)
- $37
If you want subtlety go elsewhere. What you get with this wine is Petite Sirah power and Rockpile intensity. The combo is a dry, tannic wine of enormous flavor. Blackberries, black cherries, currants, plums, mocha, bacon, pepper spice, sandalwood and smoky toast flood the mouth. Will last for a long time, but you want to drink this wine in its flashy youth.
— S.H.
(4/1/2010)
Valdez 2004 Rockpile Road Vineyard Zinfandel (Rockpile)
- $38
Rockpile Zins have earned a reputation as big, complex and interesting, and this is a great example. It sure is ripe, with a flood of blackberry and cherry pie-filling fruit, fudgy chocolate, licorice, root beer and spicy flavors. Yet it’s balanced and dry, or at least as dry as a 16.5% Zin can be. Yes, it’s a freakish wine, but you can’t deny the deliciousness.
— S.H.
(12/31/2006)
Hobo 2008 Branham Rockpile Vineyard Zinfandel (Rockpile)
- $30
A beautiful Zin, dry and spicy. Shows lush, intricate flavors of blackberries, black raspberries, anise, pepper, cola and cedar. A very fine interpretation of a dusty Sonoma Zinfandel.
— S.H.
(6/1/2010)
Mauritson 2009 Rockpile Ridge Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Rockpile)
- $47
). Very good wine from a winery increasingly known for its red varieties, and one of the best Cabernets ever to hail from this appellation. It shows a dry, distinguished tannin structure and the concentration of flavors typical of this warm, low-yielding region, with black currant intensity. Give it a decant and drink over the next six years.
— S.H.
(6/1/2012)
Rosenblum 2004 Rockpile Road Vineyard Zinfandel (Rockpile)
- $35
Rich as sin, the ’04 Rockpile Zin got enormously ripe but has been fermented to dryness, at the cost of very high alcohol. The flavors are a wonder. It’s all about chocolate, crème de cassis, anisette, and the most wonderfully rich, spicy buttery, toasty vanilla bean.
— S.H.
(12/15/2006)
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