Winery - Manzanita Creek
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This ’05 is rich and firm in tannins, with black currant, orange rind, grilled meat bone, licorice and dry chocolate flavors that have a powerful edge of crushed black peppercorn. Wonderful and elegant now, it should develop for the next six years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There’s a lot of sugary sweetness in this wine, which tastes like the blackberry and cherry filling of those pop-up tarts. Fortunately, it has the acidity and tannic richness to balance. But it’s not really a table wine. More like dessert.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There’s a savage quality to this Syrah, suggesting fresh wild berries growing in fields of lavender, rosemary and pepper tree, and something animal, like roasted meat bone. Under all that it erupts with intense cherry and blackberry fruit, and the sizable tannins make for a puckery feeling. This is quite an interesting Syrah that will gain in complexity over the next five years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A tough, rugged, tannic young wine, brisk in acids and pepper, and not showing much opulence now. There’s a molten core of blackberries and grilled, meaty leather, leading to a bone dry finish. Should mellow with 1–2 years in the bottle.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Hot in alcohol, with sweetened blackberry and raisin flavors. A good example of a Port-like table wine.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
An awkward wine, tough and gritty in tannins, with green, mint tea flavors alongside the cherries and cola. Good, but lacks charm and richness. Drink now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
What this wine needs is more acidic crispness. The flavors are totally delicious, the texture is elegant, the finish is totally dry, but the superripe cherries, raspberries, cocoa and cola just sort of melt into the palate, then fade away.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A little sweet and jammy, this Zin shows blackberry, cherry, currant and chocolate flavors that have an edge of Porty sugar.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very fruity, in fact superfruity, this wine attacks with ripe pie-filling raspberries, red cherries, pomegranates, cola and vanilla-cocoa flavors that flood the mouth, lasting through a long, spicy finish. All that fruit is balanced with crisp acids, while a touch of dusty tannins adds to the fullness. Drink now.
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