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Darms Lane 2008 Bon Passe Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $60
Darms Lane scores big with this rich, complex young Cabernet, which comes from a vineyard in the cool Oak Knoll region. The blackberry and cherry flavors, accented with red currants, licorice, cocoa, mushu plum sauce and sweet buttered cinnamon toast, are absolutely delicious. More impressive is the tannin-acid structure, which hits no wrong notes. A real beauty…
— S.H.
(12/31/2011)
Darms Lane 2005 Bon Passe Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $60
This is an inaugural wine made from a vineyard in the southerly Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley. It shows a cooler-climate influence, or perhaps earlier-picked grapes, in the crispness and slight astringency that accompanies complex black currant, black cherry and cedar flavors. Very fine and balanced. Now through 2012.
— S.H.
(6/1/2009)
Darms Lane 2006 Bon Passe Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $60
A little ungainly now due to the tannins, which are hard and overpower the fruit. Not quite up there with the fine 2005, but still a very good Cabernet Sauvignon, with pleasant blackberry, currant and cedar flavors. The vineyard is in the southerly Oak Knoll area.
— S.H.
(6/1/2010)
Darms Lane 2009 Chardonnay (Oak Knoll)
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- $28
Made in a dry, tart, minerally style, this is the kind of Chardonnay you can call Chablisian. It has an intricate structure of citrus and apricot fruit, and the oak application is modest but tasteful, providing hints of buttered toast. Understated but elegant, it’s a fine, bracing Chardonnay to drink now.
— S.H.
(5/1/2011)
Darms Lane 2007 Bon Passe Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $60
The vineyard is in the Oak Knoll District. The wine is dry and full-bodied, packed with ripe blackberries, black cherries and black currants, as well as toasty oak. A bit brusque in tannins at this young age, it should be cellared for a few years.
— S.H.
(5/1/2011)
Darms Lane 2010 Pinot Noir (Russian River Valley)
- $39
Right out of the bottle, this Pinot smells grapy and winy, almost as though it were still fermenting. It’s young, rude and fresh, but very rich in cherries, with a pie-filling sweetness. Should be fine by this winter.
— S.H.
(6/1/2012)
Darms Lane 2010 Chardonnay (Oak Knoll)
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- $28
Shows plenty of ripe pineapple, peach and pear flavors, enhanced with toasty vanilla and oak; rounded out with clean acidity. It’s solidly in the modern California style.
— S.H.
(6/1/2012)
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