A mature Pinot ready for drinking. Deep ruby in colour with a cedary, spicy cherry nose; medium-bodied, dry, elegant, lacy, finely balanced with cherry and beetroot flavours. Highly recommended.
California’s Paso Robles region is halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It’s a warm region that produces big red wines like this one. Dense purple in colour, this wine has a cedary-sandalwood nose of sun-warmed blackberries. It’s full-bodied, dry, with well-extracted black fruit flavours carried on lively acidity.
Medium ruby. Fine nose of red berry fruits, just enough oak. Half-bodied, nice fruity taste. Oak is more present on the palate than the nose announced but it is still not too much. A pleasant red that goes down easy on its own or with many dishes.
Sweet, ripe, spiced cinnamon and sarsaparilla fill the fleshy mouth of this Paso cabernet. There's ample tobacco herbaceousness that filters through the heaps of ripe, sweeter black fruit, tomato paste, lined with vanilla and scented with potpourri. Tannins are sticky and the finish is short. Disjointed flavours would be better knit with saucy veal shank or roasted portobello mushroom.
Medium ruby. Inviting nose of red fruits, oak. Full-bodied yet supple and smooth with a good balance and a lot of fruity flavours. Quite delicious, but there is something technical about its winemaking that may not appeal to the purist.
Black/purple, as any self-respecting Petite Sirah should be! Full-bodied and intense, there are masses of cassis, blackberries, dark cherry, cocoa, vanilla and liquorice. Tannins are present but rounded and the protracted finish augurs well for prime rib.
Plush yet refined, thanks to RRV’s cool climate, this Chardonnay doles out the tropical fruit, sweet apple, spiced pear, vanilla and cream. On the full end of the spectrum, there is great length and it is ready to drink.