This is a Rhône blend based on Syrah and Grenache. It’s super-fruity, with a blast of blackberries, cherries, currants and milk chocolate that taste like they were baked into a tart, and the texture is soft and velvety. Drink now.
— S.H.
(7/1/2009)
Tastes frankly sweet, with sugary flavors of pineapple marmalade, vanilla custard and butterscotch. It’s clean in acids and spicy in the finish. If this is your style, enjoy.
— S.H.
(9/1/2010)
A sound wine, with herb, raspberry jam and spice flavors and a somewhat flat, soft mouthfeel. There’s a salty sweetness that will work with ham.
— S.H.
(11/1/2010)
Tough and leathery. Shows briary blackberry and cherry fruit and oak flavors, with a bitter, sharp finish. Okay for everyday purposes.
— S.H.
(12/1/2010)
At 16.4% alcohol this might as well be a Port, its aroma overwhelmingly sweet, overripe and dominated by caramel syrup. The tannins are mouthpuckeringly dry, too. Tasted two bottles, both of which had crumbling corks.
— V.B.
(11/1/2011)