Winery - Francis Coppola
March 6, 2012
This wine is great on its own and goes down very easily. Also works well with meat and cheese for appetizers or a quickly thrown together dinner. Excellent easy to find wine!
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February 21, 2012
This is a pretty inexpensive Merlot that can be found just about anywhere, I have seen it in our wine shops as well as our local grocery store going for right around $10. First impression of this after pouring is it looks lighter to me than what a Merlot should be, but maybe I'm rusty, been a while since I have had a merlot. I check out the nose and I think I get some plum and some oak and wood flavors, but not very strong. I have a sip and the first word that springs to my mind is "warm." There is a bunch of dark fruits going on, that plum and maybe black cherries are there along with a decent oak, good medium body, not very heavy, and the finish is... good. I do want a little more. I pair it up with a ribeye and it's not bad, but after getting into it, this wine can't hang with the steak,, the salt and peppery flavors overpower it. So maybe not really for a strong flavored meal, but hey, for ten bucks, there's not much to complain about.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Here’s a nice, bright Chardonnay that can be described as Chablisian. It’s bone dry and very bright in tangy acidity, with a squirt of lime juice over Meyer lemons, pineapples and green apples. A touch of oak adds just the right note of buttered toast. Easy to find, with 73,000 cases produced.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
What’s so refreshing about this blush wine is its crisp acidity and the slight bitterness that makes it almost like a digestif. It has a wealth of fresh, green herb flavors, like sage and thyme, along with red cherryskin and white pepper. Complex and full-bodied, it can replace a red Pinot on hot summer nights.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Made from 75% Syrah and 25% Grenache, this blush wine shows cool-climate acidity and a fine minerality that make it racy and clean. There also are long hangtime hints of raspberries and strawberries. It’s a fine rosé to drink with bouillabaisse. From Francis Ford Coppola.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A little on the sugary sweet side, but nice in acidity, with very rich orange, kiwi, lime, peach and green apple flavors. Easy to find, with more than 21,000 cases produced.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A semisweet wine, with apricot jam and citrus flavors, offset by crisp acidity. Turns cloying after a few sips.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dry and rather scoury, with a rough mouthfeel. But it’s clean and bone dry, and shows proper sparkling wine flavors of citrus, vanilla, yeast and green apple.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a candied, slightly sweet Pinot Noir, pretty rustic all around. Its acidity and sugary finish give it a raspberry and cherry, sweet and sour taste.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A strongly flavored, rather heavy rosé that’s almost as full-bodied as a Grenache, which forms half the blend, with Syrah. It shows flavors of cherries and raspberries, and lacks delicacy.
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