Winery - Darms Lane
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is an inaugural wine made from a vineyard in the southerly Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley. It shows a cooler-climate influence, or perhaps earlier-picked grapes, in the crispness and slight astringency that accompanies complex black currant, black cherry and cedar flavors. Very fine and balanced. Now through 2012.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The vineyard is in the Oak Knoll District. The wine is dry and full-bodied, packed with ripe blackberries, black cherries and black currants, as well as toasty oak. A bit brusque in tannins at this young age, it should be cellared for a few years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Made in a dry, tart, minerally style, this is the kind of Chardonnay you can call Chablisian. It has an intricate structure of citrus and apricot fruit, and the oak application is modest but tasteful, providing hints of buttered toast. Understated but elegant, it’s a fine, bracing Chardonnay to drink now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A little ungainly now due to the tannins, which are hard and overpower the fruit. Not quite up there with the fine 2005, but still a very good Cabernet Sauvignon, with pleasant blackberry, currant and cedar flavors. The vineyard is in the southerly Oak Knoll area.
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