Winery - Lookout Ridge
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Starts with a blast of charry oak, and turns fierce in tannins and acids in the mouth, as well as searingly dry. Somewhere in there is intense black-cherry fruit. Important to decant this young, tough wine well in advance. It’s a gamble, but try cellaring for a few years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
At five-plus years of age, this Chard’s fruit takes a backseat to stone, mineral and herb flavors, in addition to its original oak. It’s bone dry, with crisp acids. Complex and interesting, it finishes with a dusty earthiness. Drink now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Famed winemaker Cathy Corison brings her restrained touch to this Cabernet for Lookout Ridge’s guest winemaker series, which benefits charity. It’s a dry, tannic wine that’s a little too young to drink now. But it’s classically proportioned, with lush currant and cedar flavors. Made from Corison’s Kronos Vineyard, it will be best after 2011.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Fans of sheer volume will exult, but this wine, good as it is, is a bit overblown. It overwhelms with oak as well as berry flavor so ripe, it approaches chocolate-coated raisins. It is an interesting, well-made Pinot, yet would benefit from greater elegance and a lighter, defter touch.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There’s an exotic touch of smoky bacon to this Cab, which may put some people off, but it lends complexity to the black currant and new oak flavors. The wine has a soft immediacy that renders it ready to drink now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Enormously rich, a powerhouse Syrah packed with ripe red and black currant, cassis, blueberry, chocolate, coffee, cedar and spice flavors. The structure earns the wine extra points, with ultra-refined tannins and crisp acidity. Decadent, and at its best now, in its flashy youth.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Greg La Follette, who made this wine, understands the Van der Kamp vineyard, where this wine comes from, better than anyone. It’s a startling wine, rich and full-bodied, yet utterly delicious in youthful appeal. With a fine, dry structure, it offers enormous flavors of cherries, raspberries, currants, mocha, cinnamon and smoky oak, and the finish lasts for a full minute. Expensive, but all the proceeds are for charity.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a New World, cult-style Cab whose high alcohol creates an impression of sweetness, but not of heat. It’s succulent and delicious, a mouthful of black currants, cherry jam and milk chocolate that’s balanced with lush tannins and acidity. Drink this decadent wine now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Erickson is the winemaker at Screaming Eagle, and he participated in this charitable project for Lookout Ridge. A blend of the two Cabernets, it’s soft, unctuous and decadent, in the modern cult Napa style. Floods the mouth with pastry-filling blackberries, cherries, currants, cassis, chocolate and bacon. Drink now through 2010 for freshness.
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