2804, 2011
Grapevine Sales Team Trip: California
I just got back from California with some of the Grapevine sales team. What a trip! We started out by heading to Point Reyes with Rich Marino from Cartlidge [...]
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This Red wine is produced from some of California's most historic growing region. This richly textured wine shows dark berry and jam aromas and flavors. - Crafted by blending three vineyards: 56% Harry’s Vineyard, 25% Spring Mountain and 19% Rutherford. The different structures of the three vineyards weave together to create a rich, dense, balanced, plush and creamy wine. Ripe, dark fruits meld with flowers, smoke, licorice, tar and mineral as this fresh and vinous red opens up in the glass. There is a wonderful purity and sheer density to the fruit that caresses the palate all the way through to the round, engaging finish. A gorgeous wine.
- Anatomy 2012 is a blend of 89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot and 4% Syrah. This wine was produced from the following Sub AVAs : 44% Rutherford, 21% Coombsville, 11% Atlas Peak, 8.6% Sonoma county, 7.1% Yountville, 4.1% Sonoma Mountain, 4.2% Saint Helena. The wine is medium bodied with crisp aromas of blackberry, cranberry, licorice, sweet oak and coffee.
- Bright and juicy with a mouthful of fresh red fruits at the core and caramel, balsa wood and currants adding nuances to the wine. A big yet bright, fresh and savory wine packed with red cherry.
- A dark wine with a French character. Black fruits, blueberry, leather, minty-ness, and cigar box. Firm, focused and distinctive. A thoughtful wine.
- The wine has a classic Rutherford character. It is an elegant, classy wine with aromas of cranberry, spices, smoke, cedar and sap notes. It is rich and balanced revealing a slight dryness on the finish that will attenuate with further aging.
- A very big and voluptuous wine. It is packed with tannins but very soft and velvety tannins. Complex aromas of blackberry, violet, licorice, ink and rocks ooze out of the glass.
- This is undeniably the classic bold Sonoma cab you've been searching for. With the intense hit of black fruit right up front and the stabilizing tannins coating the mid-palate...you don't want this to end. But it does. It ends with a lingering finish of soft earth and sweet cocoa. Enjoy with a good steak and some good friends! Hold up to 5 years.
- Beautifully understated, today’s blend is right up a Cab lover’s alley. Juicy, concentrated notes of dark fruit are paired with toasty dark spices, baker’s chocolate, espresso bean, sweet tobacco leaf, and touches of sage and rosemary.
- This new release of our wildly popular Sonoma Red Blend is the ultimate BBQ wine. Medium to full bodied featuring notes of black cherry, fig, cassis and cedar. A round mid palate and soft tannins lead to a gentle finish suitable for many culinary styles. Our pick...smoked baby back ribs and sweet slaw!
- This spectacular Pinot boasts hints of strawberry and hibiscus on the nose with the right amount of sandalwood. Interlaced with bright fruit, it’s perfectly complemented by the subtle oak. Slight tannins show around mid-palate, making this one beautifully balanced wine, perfect for sipping or paired with roasted lamb and mushroom risotto.
- Well it looks a bit different—but trust us—this vintage is as good or even better than the past five. Highway 12 Proprietary Red Blend shines from start to finish with a nose of dark cherry and bark then hits the front and mid-palate with enormity of blackberry preserves, yet remains austere through the finish by way of cedar-like oak notes and a touch of pencil shaving. Supported by some good tannins, this strong, brooding bottle will handle cellaring with ease. By all means, drink now, but cellaring will only allow you to open it for that special occasion the Highwayman warrants.
- Tropical notes, bright acidity, caramelized pineapple, honey, vanilla, soft oak nuances, 100% barrel fermented and 100% malo-lactic fermentation yield a wine that will develop with rich lushness over the coming year.
- This wine shows magnificently, with its clean, mango-scented nose, bright and fruity (yet refined) mid-palate with a slightly tangy lingering finish. Crisp, light and refreshing. 100% Single Vineyard Source - MacLeod Family Vineyard in Kenwood, CA.
- This deep purple garnet Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits bright aromas of blackberry, chocolate and hints of cherry-tomato
- This Cabernet Franc is grown in the Chalk Hill sub-appellation of the Russian River Valley, located on the Los Amigos Ranch just south of Healdsburg.
- Grown in the northeast section of the Russian River Valley, this Cabernet Sauvignon is located in the sub-appellation of Chalk Hill. These grapes are exposed to warmer days and cool nights on our family's Los Amigos Ranch, just south of Healdsburg.
- This 2011 Merlot was made from vines grown at Cecil's Los Amigos Ranch, a vineyard in the Chalk Hill region of the Russian River Valley.
- Hook & Ladder's oldest vineyards thrive in the cooler section of our land just west of Santa Rosa. Here the morning fog gently blankets our 100-year old vines and allows the pre-prohibition Pinot Noir to ripen evenly in the summer months.
- Virtually all (95%) of this Zin is made from vines over 100 years old on our Saitone and Gambogi vineyards, planted in 1895 and 1909, respectively.
- This blend of Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Carignane, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Alicante Bouschet is named after the Fire Station from which Cecil retired.