Cline makes interesting, offbeat red blends, and this composite of Syrah, Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Alicante Bouchet and Mourvedre comes from vineyards scattered all over California. It’s a hearty, lusty wine, expressive in peppery cherry and mulberry flavors, and nicely dry. You’ll be surprised...
California offers so much more than its most familiar areas, grape varieties, and blends: the elegant spiciness of a well-made Cabernet Franc; the finesse-driven, red-toned vibrato of a juicy Mourvèdre; lively examples of Carignan, Syrah, and Grenache. All of these and more offer a spate ...
Red Blends Blends have long been a part of California wine culture. These days a combination of adventurous spirit, masterful artistry and creative freedom has resulted in a new generation of expressive, harmonious and distinctly Californian blends. There’s virtually no end to the range of flavors...
The “Big Wood” Zinfandel is higher in alcohol than the 2021 as the 2022 being 16.7% and is a bold and full body wine. This wine is 95% Zinfandel grapes from three Livermore vineyards with 5% Petite Sirah. The high natural acidity pairs well with red sauce dishes, mushrooms, pork, lam...
The article cites key findings from wine-tasting sessions of Syrah and other blends and other Rhone Valley-inspired red and white wines from California in 2007. It includes a description of the excellent taste, flavor and quality of the different wine products, as well as information on their ...
Luxury red blends Mark Beringer, chief winemaker,Beringer Vineyards‘An interesting trend that we’re embracing is the increased popularity of luxury red blends. ‘At Beringer, we recently launched our Quantum Red Blend made with grapes sourced from some of our finest vineyards across the Napa Vall...
While the lion’s share of these wines are Cabernet Sauvignons or Cab-based blends, and predominantly from Napa and Sonoma—they, after all, tend to command the highest prices—there are some standout bottles of Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Franc-based wines here too, and from other ...
be from that appellation. Lake County, on Napa's northern border, grows the same varieties as Napa. Its wineries have been struggling for years to develop their own identity, but still most growers sell their grapes to Napa wineries that quietly put them in their Cabernets and red blends....
The article recommends several new Syrah wines and blends from California in 2007. It includes a description of the excellent taste, flavor and quality of the different wine products, as well as information on their prices and the various wineries that produced them. The issues' implications for...
s Rhône-style red wines. Syrah, Grenache and the category’s various blends have been a hard sell, with consumers complaining they don’t know what to expect from bottle to bottle: Will it be a fruit bomb, a tightly wound red for the cellar, or offer the game and glorious funk of...