Winery - Deerfield Ranch
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Like the ’03, this Merlot is a little too sweet for comfort, showing sugary cherry flavors that taste like melted jam. It’s also very soft and lacks a firm structure.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Deerfield is one of the few wineries that holds their Syrah back for so long, but the bottling has varied over the years. The ’03, at the age of five-plus, is rich in currant, herb and cocoa-dusted cappuccino flavors, but a little flat. Probably at its best now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Rich in tannins, and direct in fruit-forward blackberry, cherry and black raspberry jam flavors with a chocolaty sweetness, this Cab is ready to drink now and for the next several years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A little sharp and edgy, even at the age of six years, with jammy, black currant and cedar flavors that taste like a younger wine. Could develop, but it’s turning raisiny, which is not a good sign.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A good but not great wine. Good flavors, nice oak, smooth, polished tannins, but soft, almost flat in acids, and without special features.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There’s something nicely attractive about this dry, crisp red wine, with its flavors of cherries and tobacco. It shows a balance and harmony you don’t always find in California Sangioveses. Has some real complexity.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A blend of Sangiovese, Cab Franc, Cab Sauvignon and Dolcetto. Rustic, dry and tannic, with earthy-berry flavors.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Here’s a full-bodied Cab that’s pretty tannic and dry, but those tannins frame ripe flavors of black currants that will wake up with a good steak. Has good structure and balance, as well as firm acids.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
From this Sonoma appellation, a dry, full-bodied Pinot, with plenty of cherry, coffee, cocoa and spice flavors, and a nice overlay of toasty oak. A bit big for a Pinot, almost like a Syrah, but easy to drink.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Brutal at first, with aromas variously described as stinky, murky, and burnt shrimp shells. Thankfully, the stinks do seem to lessen with air, revealing a dry, cedary Syrah with modest cherry-vanilla flavors.
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