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2005 Winemaker's Reserve Zinfandel, Dry Creek- SOLD
OUT!
A whole new look for an old favorite. The spicy aromas of black pepper and cinnamon echo the edgy look of the label, while fruity essences of nectarine, flowers, and plums round out the approach to the palate. Once on your tongue, creamy cola notes, blackberry, stone fruit, and Dry Creek earth swirl around and around, leading to a finish that extends the fruit and earth until way past next week. This is one of our smallest lots and biggest reds!
2006 Winemaker's Reserve Zinfandel, Dry Creek $32-to
tribe-$25.60
Tagging up every flat blank surface in northern Sonoma County is our 2006 Winemaker's Reserve Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel. Zin's all about blackberry, but sour cherry shows up right on the front. The '06 is all about size, and it's got size to spare. All that big fruit flows straight into a big old spine of black pepper and earthy Dry Creek dust. All of this is baked into a creamy finish that dances on your palate like a golden blackberry pie with tap shoes on. And what would this classic Meeker Zin be without some hints of vanilla floating off that French oak on the finish. Another wow factor Zin from Dry Creek.
2005 Forchini Carignane, Dry Creek Valley $26-to tribe-
$20.80
First there is caramelized brown sugar followed by a vanilla toastiness on the nose. There are Queen Anne cherries on the tongue which finish with balanced acid and fruit. This is a great food wine!
2006 Forchini Carignane, Dry Creek Valley $26-to
tribe - $20.80
Oh man. This has got to be our biggest Carignane ever. A big full-bodied Carignane with a rich nose of cherries and spice. On the palate, those Queen Anne cherries mingle with caramelized brown sugar and pumpkin-pie spice in a velvety mouth feel with some soft stone fruit of nectarines and plum on the long, long Dry Creek Valley finish. A smattering of tannin and curtain down on what’s quite possibly the best Carignane yet.
2007 Carignane, Dry Creek Valley $26-to tribe - 20.80
It's hard out there for Carignane. Talk about under appreciated, this grape never seems to catch the attention it deserves. We've done our part for years now, and this '07 Dry Creek Valley Carignane is another notch on our belt. We pride ourselves on making these sleeper varietals into grape hits. We're like music talent scouts, scavenging the best vineyards looking for the next big thing. But unlike those sell-outs, we're in it for the music, man, not the money. And this Carignane is allllll music. Classic Carignane red fruit on the nose with pumpkin spice layering riffs over a cherry rhythm section. And you know that it's going to follow up the opening with some more bright red cherries on the palate, caramelized brown sugar, and that rich taste of stone fruit.... nectarines come in with a lead guitar solo and this Carignane finishes long... back on stage for and encore. My money says this Carignane is going multi-platinum.
2005 Syrah, Sonoma County $32-to tribe - $25.60
This is definitely not your little sister's syrah. Remember that English movie where the hunt captain yells "Release the hounds!"? Popping the cork on this wine calls for an equally resounding , "Release the aromas!" Gobs of black fruit and smoke wrapped in a ribbon of caramel crème leap out of the bottle big, then get even bigger. And on the palate, blackberries and plum coat your senses, then finish longer than the last 30 seconds of a basketball game - but with this wine, you'll never want to take a time out.
2005 Dibble Vineyard Petite Sirah, Sierra Foothills -SOLD
OUT
This wine unfolds with juicy blackberry cream and cola on the nose, with hints of sweet oak and spice...and typical of petite sirah, that light touch of white pepper. On the palate you'll find a veritable fireworks display of blackberries and toasty French oak intermingling with a briary-Coca-Cola brightness that once again displays that this vineyard carries all the jammy elegance with typical Big Reds power.
2003 Longhorn Cabernet Sauvignon, Mendocino County
$18-to tribe- $14.40
As the saying goes, "All things are bigger in Texas." That's why Meeker has done this special bottling of Cabernet. From the longhorns on the label to the wine in the bottle, it exudes BIG! BIG black cherries, BIG toasty oak, BIG long finish. Like we said, BIG. so git along little doggies and saddle up pardner.
2003 Gold Leaf Cuvee Cabernet Sauvignon, Mendocino
County $14-to tribe-$11.20
This Cabernet has a big cherry nose with spice and a hint of chocolate. On the palate the cherry fruit is followed by soft tannins and a sweet oak finish. This elegant Cabernet is designed as a go-to wine for every night drinking. It has quite a bang for the buck!
2004 "Kelly's Cab" Mendocino County Cabernet
Sauvignon - SOLD OUT!
Oops, we may have made a wine prettier than Kelly herself. Just kidding, maybe (no, we're definitely kidding, but it's a close one). Our first Kelly's Cab is a delicious dedication to Kelly Meeker, who unfortunately doesn't smell like dark chocolate truffles, black cherries, coffee and earth (well sometimes she smells like earth, but then she showers). This wine does, however, carry that nose before it unravels on the palate in a swirl of more cherries, plum and dusty cocoa surrounded by well-tamed tannins and an elegant mouth feel. Which is to be expected after the better part of four years in the barrel.
2004 Kiss Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon, Diamond Mountain
$85-to tribe-$68
This wine leaps out of the glass with a huge nose of big spice and black currant and dark cherries. These elements carry forward on the palate along with plum, coffee and earth, all surrounded by toasty French oak. The finish is silky and long. All in all a great expression of an excellent vintage. Tom and Theresa Wajnert's vineyard is set high on the slopes of Diamond Mountain. With its low yield and immaculate care, this Cabernet Sauvignon arrived at the winery with berries so small that the juice-to-skin ratio seemed unfair - at least until we tasted the intense flavors of the juice. Together the Wajnerts and Meeker have produced a truly memorable Diamond Mountain cab.
Our first-ever Cabernet Franc opens the show like the star it deserves to be. Matt says this wine's bouquet has four dimensions: First, there's mocha. Then ripe Santa Rosa plums. Then Chocolate. And then, once again, more chocolate. Go ahead, take a sip! The wine immediately coats the the inside of your mouth with sweet cassis and dark fruit flavors, complemented by smooth tannins and a touch of oak. Then, at the finish, there's a hint of dark-chocolate-covered strawberries that persists like a beach-house guest who just won't go home. This wine is drinking great now, but with time in your cellar, it will no doubt achieve superstar status.
"The Beautiful and Damned"
2004 Petit Verdot, Mendocino County $32-to tribe - $25.60
This Petit Verdot - perhaps the apex of Meeker Big-Red-dom - has a bright nose of roses and cranberries with hints of anise, allspice, and earth. Once in your mouth, cocoa powder dusts stone fruit and black truffles. Toasty oak ties it all together for a great finish. Lucas says, "Put this wine and a Tri-Tip on your holiday table and see who wins." We all agree that's everybody at the table.
2005 Gold Leaf Cuvee Merlot, Sonoma County $14-to
tribe-$11.20
With its strong plum and berry flavors, this wine shows big from the get-go. It's elegant: the black cherries start off easy but finish with a long, well-rounded complexity of strawberry jam and toasty French oak with a hint of smoke. At its price it will become a staple for every night dinner table enjoyment.
This is a classic Barberian – if there can be such a thing – with big aromas, huge flavors, big fruit, huge structure, and lingering, lingering persistence. The blooming nose of blackberries and caramelized brown sugar is followed by intense flavors of blueberry cream, cherry and vanilla. All of this is wrapped in sweet French oak. A Meeker original and a spectacular food wine.
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Big blind, small blind, whatever folks, this is high rollers’ poker and the nose is flush with chocolate. Three times for emphasis: chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. If you let this wine get the air it deserves (DECANT!) you'll be rewarded with a nose that Hershey himself would go all-in for. This Four Kings pockets that full-blown chocolate nose, backed by just a touch of vanilla crème and bright cherry. The palate flops with the chocolate that has no intention of going anywhere, cherries, blackberries, cassis, and that fine Alexander Valley earth. Stack up your chips, because this wine has four different labels, each with a different King, and they hold court in a four-bottle wooden box that counts as your Ace kicker. We couldn't be more proud to show our cards with this Four Kings, perhaps the best wine we've ever made.
Blankenheim's Frankenstein Formula 3, California
-SOLD OUT!
This monster is anything but shy - it opens with bright, sweet fruit in the nose and haunting notes of frightening French oak. On the palate, sweet cherry and dark, dark stone fruit - plums and BOOberry pie. A sustained, intense finish screams of more dark fruit and earth (scraped from the top of a grave?). Feel free to indulge on Halloween and for keeps all year 'round. From Meeker - who else would produce a wonderful wine just for you and just for monstrous fun?
Blankenheim's Frankenstein Formula 4, California $26-
to tribe-$20.80
Well, they say it couldn't be done..... but we did it anyway. This wine is as dark and black as a moonless night, and the eleven (count 'em eleven) grapes we've sewn together is a true Frankenstein's monster. With a nose of black fruit, cola, coffee, and spice, this is one wine you wouldn't mind meeting in a dark alley! These eleven grapes of the apocalypse are great now but will be frighteningly great when the monster is hungry on Halloween night.
DESSERT WINES
A dessert wine
that opens with an incredible
pear-floral nose; then
dances on the tongue.
A blend of Muscat, Chenin
Blanc, and Gewürztraminer.
A healthy acid balance
ensures a long life
and prevents the residual
sugar from being cloying.
Try it with Stilton
cheese, sliced pears
and salty almonds.
Unique to Meeker,
this delightful dessert
wine is cryogenically
made from 100% Zinfandel
Grapes and tastes like
fresh raspberries and
cherries. Completely
awesome with anything
chocolate for dessert,
it also makes a ravishing
FroZini – just ask for
the recipe.
