Winery - Adobe Road
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A fine young Cab and a worthy followup to the 2004. Dry and tannic, it shows lush, complex flavors of black currants, mocha and cedar, with an herbaceous quality suggesting green olives. This delicious wine should develop over the next six years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Smells and tastes a bit unripe, with some green, minty notes. Turns soft in the mouth, with cherry, raspberry and oak flavors. Could use greater complexity and depth.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A good wine for its classic structure and deep, complex black currant and cocoa flavors. But it’s pretty oaky and tannic, giving it a hard, resistant feeling despite being nearly four years in age. Could surprise with up to 6 years in the cellar.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
With its sticky tannins and hard finish, this wine wants a few years in the cellar. It’s quite good, showing a crisp spine of acidity that firms and tones the ripe black currant, cherry liqueur and cedar flavors.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a good Zinfandel with some special qualities. It’s full-bodied and very ripe, with berry-cherry flavors that have a baked, pie-filling warmth, and additional layers of olive tapenade and salted, dried beef. The finish includes Zin’s savory wealth of peppery spices.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Decent, by most definitions, but a clumsy wine. It’s hot in high alcohol, simple and jammy sweet in blackberries and cherries, and the oak sticks out like a sore thumb. Not going anywhere.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Full-bodied, high in alcohol and very rich in flavor, this Cab will appeal to fans of the modern style. Explosive in blackberries, cherries, currants and cedar, but dry, with firm but softly ripe tannins. Now through 2011.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Opens with the veggies, like canned aspraragus, and drinks a little richer, with black cherries flavors and firm tannins. Okay Zin, but kind of pricey.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a soft, very ripe and rather one-dimensional Syrah. It has lush flavors of blackberries, currants, chocolate, sweet olive tapenade, peppery spices and smoky cedar. At its best now with grilled meats and hard melted cheeses.
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Adobe Road Syrah - 2006
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Here’s a big, bold Zinfandel that shows the variety’s rustic, briary character. It’s dry and tannic and rather high in alcohol, with flavors of wild, ripe forest berries, peppery spices, currants, bacon and sweet, smoky cedar. Nice now with BBQ.
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