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Eric White 
San Ramon, CA
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 | | 09-27-2005 12:04 AM |
| Good color, saturated dark purple. Nose is good, showing some cassis, blacberries, and sweet oak. On the palate the wine shows somewhat astringent tannins, and a slightly bitter edge, but overall it is varitally correct and without flaws. Better than I expected, and an 82 point wine. | | | 2008: the end of an error |
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ChangeMe
Grape Sorter
Posts: 307
| | 09-27-2005 12:26 AM |
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Good color, saturated dark purple. Nose is good, showing some cassis, blacberries, and sweet oak. On the palate the wine shows somewhat astringent tannins, and a slightly bitter edge, but overall it is varitally correct and without flaws. Better than I expected, and an 82 point wine.
you're not going to believe this but i actually have a bottle of this in my cellar. a gift from a very good friend. | | | |
| Eric White
San Ramon, CA
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Posts: 9549
| | 09-27-2005 12:48 AM |
| ha! Interesting. Crack into it one night and post what you think - it's really not bad. This was one of the wines from my Mom's house, she picked it up while travelling back there. | | | 2008: the end of an error | |
| TBird
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Master of Wine
Posts: 10199
| | 09-27-2005 01:24 AM |
| i use to order their cab franc which i thought was good. at the time.  | | | |
| ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts: 11169
| | 09-27-2005 01:30 AM |
| That's about the highest rated red I ever tasted from Virginia. They do a little better with their whites. I thought Oakencroft and White Hall made some decent whites in the 82-85 point range. The best wine I ever had from Virginia was Oakencroft's regular Chardonnay bottling, not the over-oaked Reserve. | | | |
| TBird
Park Slope, Brooklyn
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| | 09-27-2005 01:32 AM |
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That's about the highest rated red I ever tasted from Virginia.
the CS or the CF? | | | |
| ChangeMe
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| | ChangeMe
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Posts: 307
| | 09-27-2005 01:58 AM |
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ha! Interesting. Crack into it one night and post what you think - it's really not bad. This was one of the wines from my Mom's house, she picked it up while travelling back there.
i promised to share it with him one day. | | | |
| Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts: 13773
| | 09-27-2005 02:17 AM |
| I think Virginia has come a long way, just based on everything I have read over the last couple of years. There seem to be quite aa few more producers now and some are trying to do the best possible job they can, producing, I think consistently, low 80-point wines. Give them another ten years and they might really make some interesting stuff. | | | www.roguefood.com -- www.cellartracker.com | |
| Edward Bowers
Palm Beach Gardens
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| | 10-22-2005 02:08 PM |
| Ever try Florida wines. They don't hit the 70's mark. Another 50 years they might get into the 80's or mercifully go out of business | | | |
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