Winery - Dumas Station
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Estate-grown fruit from the Minnick Hills vineyard elevates this wine, giving it concentration and mass. It is on a fast track aging curve, so drink up. Tasting like a mature wine, with secondary fruit flavors of baked cherry and plum, it’s leavened with baking spices and firm tannins. Ready to go.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This Right Bank-styled blend includes 19% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot. Despite its high (15.3%) alcohol, it’s a meaty, complex wine that drinks much lighter. The berry/cherry fruit flavors are woven into a tapestry of earth, herb and spice, smooth and detailed, and the wine has a mouth-pleasing seamless quality that invites another sip, and another.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The cow catcher is the front of the train engine guard, and speaks to the railroad theme of this winery. An outstanding “second” wine, this value blend drinks like a much pricier wine. It’s ready to go, with broad, softened, mixed red fruits, baking spices, toasty barrel notes and a smooth, gliding, lingering finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Rich, concentrated, and loaded with smoky, dark, spicy fruit flavors, this is a full-on Bordeaux blend, with Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot. There’s plenty of barrel influence, from 70% new French oak, but it’s welcome, and appropriate, perfectly matched to the power of the fruit. An underlayer of woodsy earth and mushroom adds further complexity.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
With grapes from the estate vineyard, Minnick Hills, this promising effort opens with concentrated, dark berry fruit, backed with rich tannins. The fruit and muscle hold down the center, but the finish gets a bit chalky, and the tannins are not quite fully ripe. The best is yet to come from this estate.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is the winery’s first Merlot. It’s a simple, pleasant effort, fruit forward and lightly oaky. The usual flavors of berry are there, and the balance is fine; it just could use more concentration through the finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A great effort, with mountain-grown fruit, high-altitude acids that give the flavors shape and cut, tightening up and brightening up the sharp, wild berry fruit. Iron filings and stone add a strong mineral element as well; this is the best yet from Dumas Station.
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