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Verité 2006 La Joie Red (Sonoma County)
- Cellar Selection
- $300
Massive essence of Cabernet Sauvignon, a triumph. Shows huge waves of blackberries, black currants and cassis, dark chocolate, earthy minerals and considerable oak, which is tasteful and unobtrusive, With its dryness and perfect balance, it will easily negotiate the years. Should be fine well past the year 2020.
— S.H.
(5/1/2011)
Verité 2006 Le Desir Red (Sonoma County)
- Cellar Selection
- $300
Extremely tannic at the age of five years, and that astringency accentuates the dryness, making the wine austere and distant. It has a dense, complex core of blackberries, coated with immaculately fine, sweet oak. Feels important and dramatic, but too young. Begs to be housed in a good cellar for a good eight years.
— S.H.
(5/1/2011)
Verité 2006 La Muse Red (Sonoma County)
- Cellar Selection
- $260
Lots going on in this mountain-grown wine. It’s perfectly dry and strong in tannins, with an elusive quality of excellence that testifies to the best terroir. Showing blackberry, black cherry, mineral and oak flavors, it should develop bottle complexity for at least the next decade.
— S.H.
(5/1/2011)
Verité 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot (Sonoma-Napa)
- Cellar Selection
- $150
Lush and delicious, this richly fruited wine roars from glass with a serious, yet still sexy plum, chocolate, spice and cedar nose. Plush tannins and an even mouthfeel full cherry, plum and cocoa flavors, and this impressive first release finishes long and dry. Appealing now, but has tannins to lose, should be even better in two years and hold until 2008.
— W.E.
(12/1/2001)
Verité 1999 La Joie Red (Sonoma County)
- $100
Richer and more complete than the ’98 La Joie, with which it was simultaneously released. This wine shows its mountain origins in its tough young tannins and hard edges, but there is enough cherry and blackberry fruit for the long haul. Oak adds vanilla and toast, but this is a wine you need to cellar until 2009.
— S.H.
(11/15/2003)
Verité 1999 La Muse Merlot-Cabernet Sauvignon (Sonoma County)
- $100
This is a tough, briary wine, very tannic, with flavors of dried herbs, earth and blackberries. A Merlot–Cabernet Sauvignon blend, it may blossom into a magnificent wine in a decade, but it’s a gamble.
— S.H.
(11/15/2003)
Verité 2000 Le Desir Meritage (Sonoma County)
- $100
A tough, brittle young wine. It is so tannic, you have to think about what the winemaker intended. There seems to be a core of black cherry fruit that could live long enough to age, but who knows?
— S.H.
(11/15/2003)
Verité 1998 La Joie Red (Sonoma County)
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- $100
Firmly tannic and rather mouth-numbing even at five years of age. Enters with a hard edge and finishes tough and gritty. Will it age? There are some black cherry flavors inside, but it’s a gamble.
— S.H.
(8/29/2003)
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