Winery - Michael David
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Rustic and sweet in chocolate and cherry flavors, this wine calls to mind backyard barbecues with grilled meat smoking on the flames and hungry folks who just need an honest red wine.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very sweet-smelling, like putting your nose in a bowl of sugar, followed by aromas of ripe pineapple juice, this smooth Sauvignon Blanc from the Michael David folks is sweet through and through.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A blend of Petite Sirah and Petit Verdot, this is a clumsy wine. It’s soft and overripe, and the oaky overlay doesn’t do anything to improve the situation.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
I think by “lust” they mean something like a decadent chocolate truffle with a gooey cherry liqueur filling. That’s what this sweetish wine, which has 15.9% alcohol, tastes like. It is awfully tasty, but it’s hard to imagine what you’d drink it with, except, well, a chocolate truffle.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A ridiculously hedonistic bottle of Syrah, this hits you first with its heady aromas of strong black olive, tobacco and bacon, then seduces you further with layers of rich berry fruit topped by Syrah-proper pepper. Blended with Petite Sirah and Petit Verdot and fairly high in alcohol (15.5%) this is one for those who love good Syrah.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Too ripe, too soft, too Porty and too oaky, with flavors like a chocolate-raspberry and cinnamon drink you get at Starbucks.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A blend of Petite Syrah and Petit Verdot, this cleverly named wine is sweet, soft and rustic. It has jellied flavors of raspberries and cherries.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Classic Lodi Cab, from a vintage that wasn’t too hot or too cool. The wine is soft and lush, with milk chocolate and cassis flavors and the vanillins and sweet char of oak. Easy and delicious, it’s a wine to drink now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is an expensive wine, by Lodi or any standards, but it’s also a really good one. Blended with Petite Sirah, it has a soft texture and decadent mouthfeel, and the flavors are of creme de cassis, caramel cream, melted milk chocolate, tangerine zest and cinnamon-spiced gingerbread. It’s certainly not an ager, so drink up.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This cleverly named blend of Petite Sirah and Petit Verdot is rustically likeable. It’s a soft, slightly sweet and gigantically fruity wine, with some softening, creamy influence from oak.
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