Winery - Falcor
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Sweetly rich in cherry, red currant and chocolate flavors, with a peppery edge, this Sangiovese is soft in structure. The bright acidity can cut through tomato sauce with cheese.
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Falcor Sangiovese - 2005
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Rustic and somewhat sharp, this Zin has a green, spearmint streak, with some harsh tannins, which suggests unevenly ripened berries, despite very high alcohol. It’s like a combination of cherry Lifesavers, blackberries and Altoids breath mints. Drink now.
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Falcor Zinfandel - 2005
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Smoky, sweet oak overwhelms the underlying wine, giving a caramelized sweetness to the basic black currant flavors. Doesn’t seem like an ager.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A disappointment from this esteemed vineyard, but consistent with Falcor’s past record. The wine is thinly flavored and overly oaked, leaving an impression of woody, spicy citrus fruits.
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Falcor Chardonnay - 2005
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Some Cabs go into a dip at the age of five, and this may be one of them. It’s a little awkward in structure, with a sharpness of feeling, and the oak isn’t integrated with the ripe blackberry fruit. Could emerge and be fine in a couple more years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Based on Cabernet Franc, this Bordeaux blend is delicious in flavor, but it’s also quite tannic and needs some time in the bottle to come around. It floods the palate with blackberry, cherry and currant flavors that have been generously oaked, and finishes dry and balanced. Hold until after 2009.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Decadent and complex, this wine just oozes pastry-filling flavors of blackberries, cherries, chocolate and sweet oak. Such pretty tannins, such balancing acidity.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This Merlot-based Bordeaux blend comes from both cooler and warmer parts of Napa, including mountains. It’s a very fine wine that will probably hold, although year by year it will lose its gorgeous babyfat deliciousness. More tannic than Falcor’s ’02 Cabernet, it has similar blackberry, cherry, cassis and chocolate flavors that have been well-oaked in new barrels.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The idea here was to make a white Burgundy-style Chardonnay with lots of oak. But the new oak is so strong that it overshadows what’s actually a pretty nice wine underneath. You have to dive down through an ocean of smoky char, woody vanilla and sweet woodsap to find the basic peach and pineapple flavors.
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Falcor Chardonnay - 2004
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There’s a decent wine here, crisp and ripe in pineapple flavor, but it’s been buried under so much oak, it’s practically invisible. The wine reeks of woodsap and charred barrels, dominated by a sweet vanilla taste.
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Falcor Chardonnay - 2004
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