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Wine Scores
Below is a listing of the wine review scores we frequently reference in our notes. While these sources remain an excellent source of information, we always recommend that you trust your own palate. Scores in these publications often represent the personal taste of an individual critic, which may not always coincide with your own. We have a huge team of excellent wine professionals that can match wines you've had in the past with new arrivals that meet your flavor profile.
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2010 Catena Zapata "Catena Alta" Chardonnay Mendoza
Review Date: 4-1-2013
Butter, apple, toast, mineral in a richer style with medium plus acidty. Well balanced in this style!
Price: $25.99
2011 Meli Riesling Maule Valley
Review Date: 4-1-2013
Stone frui, citrus, star fruit, lime blossom, and slate with medium acidity and great freshness. A great discovery that YES! Chilean riesling is yummy!
Top Value!
Price: $12.99
2001 Qupe "Bien Nacido Vineyard Hillside Estate" Santa Maria Valley Syrah
Review Date: 4-1-2013
Boy oh boy, oh boy is this Syrah AMAZING! A few of us were recently treated to lunch at the Qupe/Au Bon Climat winery, and winemaker Bob Lindquist made sure that this wine was a featured part of the meal. I fell head over heels for it, enjoying it with roasted ham, a red quinoa salad and various cheeses. When Bob brought the bottle to our recent Friday night tasting, I was yet again impressed at how well the wine was showing. If you are looking for a really special bottle of domestic syrah, this is it! Stewed red cherry, sandalwood, hints of bacon and leather, with medium plus acidity (yes, at 12 years old! Such bright, fresh fruit!) and medium plus tannin. Well-balanced, beautiful integration, and clear excellence in winemaking. We bought this directly from Qupe, so get as much as you can fast!
Price: $74.99
2009 Palmina "Undici" Santa Barbara County Sangiovese
Review Date: 4-1-2013
Sourced from fruit from the Fiore vineyard, this 100% Sangiovese is pretty special. "Undici" means Eleven in Italian. Pretty red cherry, roses, sandalwood, with a soft subtley that classic sangiovese expresses. Medium plus acidity and medium plus tannin. A fun expression of a classic!
Price: $35.99
2010 Palmina "Lumina" Santa Maria Valley Sparkling Nebbiolo Rosé
Review Date: 4-1-2013
Okay, I will admit it outright. I begged our Domestic Buyer Brian Brick to buy this wine when we visited Palmina a few weeks ago. I fell HEAD over heels for this sparkling Nebbiolo rose. I mean, I fell HARD. I could drink this bubbly every day for the rest of my life and be completely happy. Red roses, red cherry, raspberry, strawberry, mineral with medium plus acidity, fine bubble structure and ridiculously easy to drink. Worth the splurge- very special. DELICIOUS!!!
Price: $47.99
2011 Loring "Sierra Mar Vineyard" Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay
Review Date: 3-26-2013
Butter, toast, mineral, apple, and citrus with medium plus acidity. Much more restrained than the Durell Chardonnay. Drinkable and tasty!
Price: $42.99
2011 Loring "Rosella's Vineyard" Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir
Review Date: 3-26-2013
Red cherry, red roses, red currant, raspberry with a medium acid and tannin, the Rosella's is pretty, easy and softly sweet and drinkable.
Price: $47.99
2011 Loring "Garys' Vineyard" Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir
Review Date: 3-26-2013
Pisoni clone Pinot Noir shows flashy and ripe here in Loring's Gary's Vineyard. Black currant, cassis, raspberry with considerable richness and heft. Medium plus tannin and medium acid. Love Pisoni Pinot Noir? Try this on for size!
Price: $47.99
2011 Loring "Aubaine Vineyard" San Luis Obispo County Pinot Noir
Review Date: 3-26-2013
Big, fat, juicy blackberry, black currant, cassis with medium plus acidity and surprising length and balance. If you like your Pinot Noir quite lush, this wine is for you!
Price: $47.99
2011 Loring "Durell Vineyard" Sonoma Coast Chardonnay
Review Date: 3-26-2013
Love Rombauer? You MUST try Loring's Durell Chardonnay! This puppy is all creme brulee, sweet, buttery richness with medium acidity. Winemaker Brian Loring is vocally unapologetic about his love of big, fat, huge Chardonnay and this wine does not disappoint!
Price: $43.99
2010 Melville "Estate" Santa Rita Hills Pinot Noir
Review Date: 3-26-2013
Owner Chris Melville's mission is "to bring the vineyard to the glass", and he has accomplished it for certain with the Estate Pinot Noir. This wine is a blend of all of the Pinot Noir blocks on the Estate, which includes all 16 clones and every soil type! 30% whole cluster fermentation lends depth and character to this wine. All pure bright fruit here! Red cherry, raspberry, bright strawberry, with hints of savory dried herbs from stem inclusion in fermentation. Medium plus acidity and medium plus tannin. Very easy, drinkable and delicious!
Price: $25.99
2011 Melville "Estate-Verna's" Santa Barbara County Syrah
Review Date: 3-26-2013
30% whole cluster fermentation is evident here- a perfumey, lavender, blackberry nose, with white pepper, blueberry, and an interesting asphalty/tar note. Medium plus acidity and medium tannin. Aged in neutral barrel, this is a great example of cool climate Syrah.
Price: $19.99
2010 Tablas Creek "Esprit de Beaucastel Rouge" Paso Robles Rhône Blend
Review Date: 3-26-2013
Pretty black currant, cassis, blackberry, vanilla & blueberry with a meaty, savory, spicy edge. Medium plus acidty & medium plus tannin- a cellar worthy candidate to be sure. Always mainly Mourvedre, the Esprit de Beaucastel is the flagship red of Tablas Creek. 45% Mourvedre, 30% Grenache Noir, 21% Syrah, 4% Counoise.
Price: $52.99
2005 Clendenen Family Vineyards "Bricco Buon Natale" Santa Maria Valley Nebbiolo
Review Date: 3-26-2013
This Nebbiolo shows incredible fruit and polish and yet is still a baby in Nebbiolo-land. Juicy red cherry, raspberry, red roses, fleshy but with medium plus acidity & medium plus tannin. Well-balanced goodness. Drinkable with decanting and food, but tuck this one away for another 5-10 years and I am certain it will only mellow and improve!
Price: $29.99
2005 Clendenen Family Vineyards "Rancho La Cuna" Santa Maria Valley Syrah/Viognier
Review Date: 3-26-2013
Disclaimer: My tasting notes on this wine were written while seated at a long lunch table overflowing with incredible food and lots of wine, along with winemaker Jim Clendenen sitting across from me & Qupe winemaker Bob Lindquist to my right- both egging me on to try their favorite wine! I have a big heart in my notebook next to my 2005 Rancho La Cuna Syrah Viognier notes. Stewed cherries, red cherry, red currant, strawberry, with hints of pepper. Clearly slow in its development, this wine is aromatically pronouned (the Viognier waves up at you along with all that lush fruit) and requires lots of time to sit an ponder. Perfect with ribs, steak, hearty dishes- but most importantly, the most jolly, hilarious people you can muster!
Price: $29.99
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