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This wine is bursting with a broad range of berry-fruit aromas and flavors, all followed by a satin-smooth finish. This wine has the following varietals: 59% Cabernet Franc, 15% Syrah, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot, 3% Barbera, and 3% Carignane. Think of a sunny afternoon or a warm summer evening...............................................our famous PINK ELEPHANT!
2005 Winemaker's Reserve Zinfandel, Dry Creek $32 / to tribe -$25.60
A whole new look for an old favorite. The spicy aromas of black pepper and cinnamon echo the edgy look of the labe, 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!
2005 Forchini Carignane, Dry Creek Valley $26 / to tribe - $20.80
Fisrt 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 mouthfeel 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.
2003 Dibble Syrah - SALE PRICE $10.00
Syrah doesn’t get any bigger than this. The nose is cherries, cherries, cherries, smoke, and cardamom spice. The palate is rich in stone fruit of plums and more cherries enhanced by toasty French oak. The finish is much better than the Super Bowl (Matt’s a Bears fan) – this wine keeps on coming back!
2005 Sonoma County Syrah $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 creme 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.
This is another in our series of beautiful Petite Sirah vintages from the Dibble Vineyard in the Sierra Foothills. These are the only grapes we regularly buy from outside our Sonoma-Napa-Mendocino area, and you only have to taste the wine to understand why we like this special vineyard so much. It features a nose of sweet black cherries with cracked pepper and hints of coffee and cinnamon, dark purple color, and an initial flavor of plum jam, followed by dark cherry, blackberries, big happy tannins and a finish like the guest who comes for dinner and stays the weekend. And, as we hope you already know from the 2001 and 2002 vintages, this is a wine that cries out for long term aging.
2005 Dibble Vineyard Petite Sirah, Sierra Foothills $26/ to tribe-$20.80
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 vertiable 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
$32 / to tribe -$25.60
Oop, 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 mouthfeel. 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 amd 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 strwberries 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 everbody at the table.
2004 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.
2005 Four Kings, Alexander Valley $50.00 / to tribe - $40.00
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 $26 / to tribe-$20.80
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 monstorous fun?
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