Monday, May 13, 2024
2021 Flora Springs Trilogy
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
NV Harvester Cabernet Sauvignon
Monday, April 25, 2022
2018 Hamel Family Wines Isthmus
Sonoma Valley, CA
2,698 cases produced
Suggested retail price: $90.00
Drink The Bottles score: 93+/100
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
2018 Enkidu Cabernet Sauvignon High Mayacamas
Sonoma, CA
Suggested retail price: $45.00
Drink The Bottles score: 92/100
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
2016 Laurel Glen Counterpoint Cabernet Sauvignon
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
2017 Patel Napa Valley Red Wine
Here's a another winner from a winery that we were introduced to about 13 months ago. The 2017 Patel Napa Valley Red Wine is a luscious and aromatic offering that offers a dark purple and mouth watering welcome to the palate. Ripe dark cherry, pencil lead, cocoa bits and cherry tobacco on the nose. In the mouth is a powerful blend of red fruits, barn wood, black tea and cherry licorice. This wine is framed with a solid acidic backbone and pulled together nicely for an amazing finish. Tips the scale at nearly 15% alcohol but the balance is in check. There were only 150 cases produced, but this one should be in your cellar while you can grab it. Enjoy it optimally for the next 12-15 years. Well done!
ABV: 14.9%
Napa Valley, CA
Suggested retail price: $75.00
Drink The Bottles score: 93/100
Monday, December 13, 2021
2017 LOBO Wines Custom Red Blend
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
2019 Caprio Cellars Eleanor Estate Red Wine
We were really taken back by the 2018 vintage of this wine and the 2019 doesn't disappoint! This is the 2019 Caprio Cellars Eleanor Estate Red Wine. The wine is a Bordeaux Blend that consists of Cabernet Sauvignon (62%), Merlot (20%), Malbec (12%) and Cabernet Franc (6%). This is not an "in your face" type of wine but rather one with a graceful introduction to blackberry and cherry aromas framed with cedar plank. In the mouth is a glass-like feel with very polished tannin against flavors of plum, blackberry, cherry cordial and baking spices. The closing moments of the wine linger and this young wine will surely continue to provide more depth with some time in the bottle. Simply lovely! 700 cases produced.
ABV: 14.5%
Walla Walla, WA
Suggested retail price: $60.00
Drink The Bottles score: 90+/100
Friday, November 12, 2021
2018 Corison Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
2018 Caprio Cellars Eleanor Estate Red Wine
ABV: 14.5%
Walla Walla, WA
Suggested retail price: $60.00
Drink The Bottles score: 92/100
Monday, November 1, 2021
2018 Truchard Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Carneros Napa Valley
Friday, October 29, 2021
2018 LOBO Wines Cabernet Sauvignon
Monday, September 13, 2021
Winery Adventure: Repris Wines
We were very blessed to be able to travel to California recently for a wine trip with great friends. We had planned the trip in 2020, but we had to postpone for a year due to most of the world shutting down from the Covid pandemic. We decided that we would take this trip in 2021, come hell or high water.
Our "Winos" group as we jokingly and affectionately call ourselves, spent a few evenings and many text messages back and forth to discuss the "must visit" wineries as well as those that had been on various wish lists throughout the years. After much discussion and many emails back and forth to the wineries on our radar, we finally decided on nine wineries that would complete our adventure. And, so we begun with Day #1...... Repris Wines.
- 2019 Sauvignon Blanc
- 2016 Texture Lancel Creek Chardonnay
- 2018 Syrah
- 2018 Left Bank
- 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon, Moon Mountain Vineyard
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
2017 Fifty Row Cabernet Sauvignon
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
2018 Flora Springs Trilogy
Monday, April 19, 2021
2018 Flora Springs Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Napa Valley, CA
Suggested retail price: $50.00
Drink The Bottles score: 90/100
Friday, March 26, 2021
2018 Patland Estate Vineyards Select Barrel Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley, CA
295 cases produced
Suggested retail price: $200.00
Drink The Bottles score: 93/100
Thursday, January 7, 2021
2017 Baldacci Vineyards Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon Stags Leap District
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