Winery - Deux Amis
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This just flat-out smells like Dry Creek fruit, with lots of bold raspberry scents. Bright fruit, tart, lipsmacking berry flavors, good color and extraction. Tight, young and lovely.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Pretty much what you’d expect from a blend of Alexander and Dry Creek Valleys, it starts with dusty, wild-berry aromas leading to a fruity, spicy wine encased in substantial tannins and moderate acids. It will age, but losecharacter. Drink it now or soon in its bright, exuberant, wild youth.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a very dry, intensely flavored, single-vineyard wine, which is its strength and its drawback. It’s all about blackberry, tobacco and espresso, plus a very soft mouthfeel. It has soul, but it’s a little one-dimensional, with a tart finish. Yet, it will elevate a humble hamburger into a fancy meal.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Spicy rich on the nose, with zippy cedar, blackberry, cherry, cinnamon, plum, coffee and chocolate flavors throughout. Quite toasty at the end, which is long and bright, though with a touch of bitterness.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
If you’re looking for elegance, look elsewhere. But if you like hefty, big-shouldered Zins, pick up this one and try it with a grilled pork chop. It’s a dry, tannic, balanced wine, with a classically feral Zin profile.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Petite Sirah at its best aspires to be rich, full-bodied and opulent. This is that kind of wine. It has flavors of red stone fruits and berries, thick, dusty, ageworthy tannins, and is bone dry. It also can’t quite shake its basically rustic nature, which this wine celebrates instead of trying to hide.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Fifteen percent is the new 13 percent of alcohol in Zinfandel, but if you can handle the headiness, this is a good choice. Rich and earthy, with the taste of fresh berries picked from bushes at the height of summer, this Zin is perfect for barbecue.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dry Creek Zins, at their best, like this one, show a rich earthiness, in addition to the expected array of ripe berry flavors. This vineyard, on the western side of the valley, has a balance and harmony that belie the wine’s very high alcohol content.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Firm-textured, with the flavors framed in ripe, but powdery, tannins. Plum, cherry, toast and spice are at the center, hiding a bit, but pleasantly in evidence nonetheless.
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