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Volker Eisele Family Estate 2007 Alexander Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
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- $125
This is a big, age-worthy 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. Tasted now, it’s dryly tannic, with the black currant and crème de cassis flavors buried under a cloak of astringency. New oak, which comprises 80% of the barrels, adds even greater tannins. Give this wine at least six years, and it should continue to blossom in a good cellar for another decade.
— S.H.
(12/31/2010)
Volker Eisele Family Estate 2006 Alexander Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- Cellar Selection
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- $125
A massive 100% Cab from this veteran producer/grower, from the estate in the Chiles Valley District. Hard to exaggerate the lush, New World, cult-style power. High but balanced alcohol, massive new French oak, and a nuclear core of blackberries and currants. Somehow, it all works. A slam-dunk for aging. Drink now through 2018.
— S.H.
(10/1/2009)
Volker Eisele Family Estate 2001 Terzetto Red (Napa Valley)
- $75
There’s a tannic sturdiness here that suggests ageability, but it’s really delicious now. Black currant, chocolate, cherry and sweet herb flavors are perfectly meshed with fine, toasty oak. Brims with class and distinction. One-third each Cabernet Sauvignon, Cab Franc and Merlot.
— S.H.
(10/1/2004)
Volker Eisele Family Estate 2008 Alexander Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- Cellar Selection
- $125
Made from 100% Cabernet, this is a worthy followup to the extraordinary 2006 and 2007 vintages. Feels fine in the mouth, with rich tannins and dry, elegant flavors of blackberries, cassis, dark chocolate and French oak. The tannins are pure Napa, smooth and complex. Not ready to drink now, but give it a good six years, and it could develop over the next fifteen.
— S.H.
(5/1/2012)
Volker Eisele Family Estate 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $48
A distinguished, impressive Cabernet, obviously the result of fine grapegrowing and meticulous berry selection. It’s bone dry, rich in tannins and firm, with mineral-infused blackberry and black currant flavors, brightened with crisp acidity. Will develop bottle complexity for a good eight years.
— S.H.
(2/1/2012)
Volker Eisele Family Estate 2006 Gemini White Wine (Napa Valley)
- Editors' Choice
- $25
From Chiles Valley, this blend of 71% Semillon and 29% Sauvignon Blanc is one of the best wines of its type of the vintage. Cofermented and barrel aged in 15% new French oak, it shows extraordinary richness, and savory flavors of green and yellow tree fruits, green tea, cashew, Asian spices and gingery vanilla. It even has some dusty tannins that make for grip and…
— S.H.
(12/1/2007)
Volker Eisele Family Estate 2007 Gemini White (Napa Valley)
- Editors' Choice
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- $25
A mighty fine white wine. Fills the much-needed niche of extreme dryness, acidity and restraint, which are the hallmarks of elegance. Call it the anti-Chardonnay. A Semillon-Sauvignon Blanc blend with some barrel and sur lie influence, it’s rich and crisp in Meyer lemon, pear, fig, vanilla and smoky butter flavors.
— S.H.
(10/1/2009)
Volker Eisele Family Estate 2006 Terzetto Red (Napa Valley)
- Cellar Selection
- $75
Oaky, fruity and tannic now, and not showing a great deal of attractiveness, but that’s because it’s a young wine badly in need of cellaring. Blended in equal parts of Merlot and the two Cabernets, and made with 70% new French oak, it’s all unintegrated blackberries, cherries, violets, minerals, sweet cedarwood and vanilla spice. Quite a fine wine whose softly…
— S.H.
(3/1/2010)
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