Girard
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Girard 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $75
Where Girard’s estate Cab is beautiful now, their Diamond Mountain bottling is one for the cellar. Veteran winemaker Marco DiGiulio has applied his considerable experience, with classic results. The wine is marked by firm tannins that make it astringent and sticky. But underneath all that is an explosion of currant, plum, licorice, chocolate and spicy curry flavor…
— S.H.
(12/15/2008)
Girard 2005 Pritchard Hill Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $75
This is easily Girard’s finest estate Cab in recent memory. It’s entirely drinkable now for the softly tannic mouthfeel and lush flavors of black currants, dark chocolate and anise that are so luxuriantly oaked. Yet it has the classic structure of a wine that will develop for many years. Just gorgeous. Best now and through 2013.
— S.H.
(12/15/2008)
Girard 2007 Petite Sirah (Napa Valley)
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- $29
This is a big, potent, Incredible Hunk of a wine. It’s gigantic in wild, exotic blackberry, blueberry, mulberry, pomegranate, licorice, pepper and dark chocolate flavors, wrapped into firm tannins. Continues a near-perfect streak of ageworthy, dry Petite Sirahs from Girard.
— S.H.
(11/1/2009)
Girard 2008 Petite Sirah (Napa Valley)
- Editors' Choice
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- $28
A great Petite Sirah, one that continues an amazing string of successes for the winery. Combines the variety’s robust and full-bodied berry, cherry, mocha and pepper flavors and bigtime tannins with classic Napa elegance and balance. Drinks beautifully now and will develop throughout the decade. The wine is based on fruit from a century-old vineyard.
— S.H.
(3/1/2012)
Girard 1999 Red (Napa Valley)
- Editors' Choice
- $40
A terrific wine that defines midvalley balance, harmony and style. Cassis and smoky oak describe the objective characteristics, but can’t convey the feeling of plushness and class. Some dusty tannins suggest holding through 2004. A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot.
— S.H.
(11/15/2002)
Girard 2003 Petite Sirah (Napa Valley)
- Cellar Selection
- $24
Classic Petite Sirah, full-bodied, rich, totally dry, very tannic and fruity. So good now with something big, like short ribs, that it will be difficult to cellar, but this is a wine that will soften and sweeten over many years. And what a finish, long in ripe, wild blackberries, cherries and coffee.
— S.H.
(12/1/2005)
Girard 2003 Artistry Red Wine (Napa Valley)
- $40
This is Girard’s Meritage, based on Cabernet but with the other four varieties. The grapes come from St. Helena and Oakville. The wine is young, tannic and dry now, with great complexity, a Bordeaux-style blend of endless fascination and pleasure. Should drink well for 10 years or more.
— S.H.
(2/1/2007)
Girard 2006 Petite Sirah (Napa Valley)
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- $28
Beautifully captures Petite Sirah’s lusty elegance, a contradiction in terms but one fans of Pet will understand. The lust is in the exuberant way the way explodes in berries, cherries, chocolate, violets, sandlewood, pepper and cedar aromas and flavors. The elegance is in the classic structure, due, no doubt, to the pedigree of the Calistoga vineyards from which…
— S.H.
(11/1/2008)
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