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Casa Nuestra 2004 Merlot (Napa Valley)
- $35
This is one of the most interesting Merlots I’ve tasted lately, mainly due to the compelling balance. It’s very ripe in cherry, blackberry and mocha flavors, with a dash of cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla. The balance comes from the wonderfully smooth tannins, crisp acids and deft way the new oak integrates with everything else. Now through 2010.
— S.H.
(3/1/2007)
Casa Nuestra 2005 Old Vines Home Vineyard Dry Chenin Blanc (Napa Valley)
- Editors' Choice
- $24
The wine is amazing, although if you don’t like Chenin Blanc, it’s not for you. It’s high in acid, almost sour, which makes it a beautiful wine for food, a connoisseur’s wine, a sommelier’s dream. The flavors run toward lemon drop, wild flowers and elemental things like wax and steel. Should do all sorts of interesting things as it ages. Editors’ Choice.
— S.H.
(4/1/2007)
Casa Nuestra 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $55
Rich and balanced, made from the winery’s estate in St. Helena. It’s not your typically super ripe, opulent Napa Cab, but an elegant, almost understated wine, designed for the table. Dry, with herb-infused blackberry fruit, this 100% Cab has 50% new oak, which adds a toasty edge. Drink now through 2014.
— S.H.
(4/1/2007)
Casa Nuestra 2004 Meritage Red (Napa Valley)
- $45
This Merlot-based blend, with equal parts of the two Cabs, is soft and luscious. It has dramatically ripe cherry and blackberry fruit, with a chocolaty edge, yet never loses balance and harmony. Best now—2012.
— S.H.
(4/1/2007)
Casa Nuestra 2004 Cabernet Franc (Napa Valley)
- $38
Cab Franc should be lighter in structure and body than Cab Sauvignon, and this wine succeeds perfectly. It’s very dry, with finely ripe, dusty tannins, and offers a wealth of cherry and herb flavors that finish long and complex. Could even pick up additional nuance with five or six years in the bottle.
— S.H.
(4/1/2007)
Casa Nuestra 2006 Tinto Classico Old Vines Red (Oakville)
- Online Exclusive
- $40
From a tiny vineyard in the Oakville hills that was planted in the early 1940s and contains at least nine varieties, possibly more, this is an old-fashioned style of wine. It’s absolutely dry and quite tannic, with pronounced acidity, and has an earthy, tobacco edge to the blackberry and black cherry, plum and dark chocolate flavors.
— S.H.
(6/1/2008)
Casa Nuestra 2008 Old Vines Charbono (Napa Valley)
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- $32
Lots of zippy acidity in this dry, full-bodied Charbono. It’s tannic and earthy, with tobacco-laced blackberry and mushroom flavors and something grilled and meaty. Bone dry, it should develop over many years, without gaining a great deal of complexity.
— S.H.
(7/1/2011)
Casa Nuestra 2007 Home Vineyard Old Vines Dry Chenin Blanc (Napa Valley)
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- $24
A fine, savory wine, one that makes you regret that so much Chenin Blanc has been pulled from Napa Valley. It’s crisp in acidity, with complex green apple, date, jasmine tea and citrus flavors that have a little bitterness in the finish. Great with pea soup, spicy chicken sausages or a smoky ham.
— S.H.
(6/1/2008)
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