Creamy and crisp, this Chard is ultrarich in fruit, with lemondrop, pineapple tart filling, crème brûlée and buttered toast flavors. Really delicious and complicated, it’s from a vineyard on mountainous slopes in the heart of the Silicon Valley suburb of Los Gatos.
— S.H.
(10/1/2007)
It takes an incredibly good vineyard to produce a Cab Franc this good. This lovely wine has lush blackberry flavors with nuances of espresso and sweet oregano. It’s quite tannic, leaving behind a dusty astringency.
— S.H.
(11/15/2004)
Fogarty has a great track record with Cabernet, including Cab Franc, and this is an interesting, complex wine. It’s dry and tannic. There’s a gamy, leathery note to the blackberry and coffee fruit that finishes with great length. Despite the tannins, it doesn’t seem like an ager, so drink up.
— S.H.
(5/1/2006)
This vineyard is the source of tannic, impressive Cabs for Thomas Fogarty. The ’06, which is 97% varietal, is extremely ripe in currant and unsweetened chocolate flavors, and very smooth in tannins. But it’s also very high in alcohol. Hard to tell where it’s going.
— S.H.
(12/1/2008)
Fogarty has a good track record with this bottling. The ’04 certainly is ripe and soft, with rich, jammy cherry, red currant, raspberry, licorice and mocha flavors. With very high (15.5%) alcohol, it could have a firmer structure, but it’s lip-smackingly good.
— S.H.
(7/1/2008)