Color: A pale straw yellow.
Aroma: Clean, crisp fragrance with intense yet elegant hints of quince.
Taste: Fresh, harmonious fruit set off by slight sweetness with a long finish full of delicate, tangy flavor. more
Lovers of the Johnnie Walker Blue Label have a new way to satisfy their love of the top shelf whisky. The Johnnie Walker King George V Edition comes in a crystal decanter with an individually numbered certificate of authenticity. The whisky is made with the same techniques during the reign ... more
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This wine exudes the sweet smell of oak with a hint of cedar. The mouth is soft and fruity, having a lusciousness that is true to the house style. more
Ruby red tending to garnet, very intense, persistent nose with red fruit notes. Warm, balanced flavour with velvet-smooth tannins. Long-lasting aroma.
Serving suggestions: Red meats, game, mature cheeses. more
Garnet red ruby very intense. Ample and intense with balsamic spicy tones (licorice, cofee and tabacco). Black berries (underbrush, cherries in spirits). Ripe fruits (strawberries, cherries), spicy (coffee- chocolate). Elegant. Body, warm and soft. Excellent tannin content and lengthy persistence. more
The 2001 vintage produced the finest raw material we had ever seen at Quilceda. It was really exciting going through the various vineyard sections selecting only the very best lots to go into the cabernet. We knew we had a very special wine from the start and it has really ... more
A harmonious and consistent blend containing one-third each of Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay grapes, never sold until the youngest component is at least three years old. Described as "Brut", it is a versatile wine suitable for most champagne occasions, as an apertif, complement to a meal or pure ... more
In the glass our 2002 has a dark, inky-purple color, saturated to the edge. It has a pronounced aromatic bouquet of luxurious pure ripe fruit, cassis and earth. The wine's diverse, complex and powerful flavor profile - with ripe cassis, blackberry, and black cherry flavors supported by hints of tar ... more
Smaller-than-normal yields and especially warm weather in August produced highly concentrated grapes and the especially rich blueberry and blackberry aromas and flavors of this wine.
Bancroft Ranch Merlot has a quality I can only describe as all-around richness. Unlike some Merlots I've tasted, the wine from Bancroft has no `hole ... more
Dark ruby colour, with bright red tinges. Nose still a little closed before decanting, expressing quintessential fruit, macerated with spices. The mouth is round, ripe and fleshy, and the generous finish ends with fine and velvety tannins. more
The Rutherford Hillside Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is
perhaps our most elegant single-vineyard Cabernet, exhibiting wonderful complexity and flavors entirely unique to this hillside vineyard. The aromas of black cherry, cassis and cocoa flow into the palate and arebalanced by a good acid structure and firm tannins. It is flawless and ... more