This is a great big dark tannic wine begging for a long nap in the cellar. Tart blackberries, licorice, and eucalyptus are wrapped tightly in leather. The finish is redolent with lavendar. This would unwind some with a nice cut-read more-
Austere? This off-dry beauty from 40-year-old Hohenrain vineyard vines is 'Victorian-statue-in-the-bonny-Prince's-garden' austere. You will get pineapple. You will get peach. You will get kick-ass, bracing acidity. And they will all demand that you bow and kiss their rings! WHO Schloss-read more-
On the nose I got cedar, pepper, smoke, spice, black cherry, cranberry, and brown sugar. In the mouth I found black cherry, spice, pepper, tart fruit, cranberry, pomegranate, and milk chocolate. Overall, the wine had nice structure and acidity, with-read more-
I found this wine to be intensely concentrated with complex layers, well worth the price point in my opinion. On the nose I got blueberry compote, berries in the hot sun right off the bush, pencil lead, spice, dusty tannins,-read more-
On the nose I got pineapple, white flowers, honeysuckle, orange zest, fresh pear, and white pepper. In the mouth I found jasmine, lemon, tropical fruit, honeysuckle, and grapefruit. Oh yes, and the lemon Pledge…or what I would imagine lemon Pledge-read more-
Have we heard enough? Is Brunello dead? Have the Italians taken one of their greatest wine symbols and thrown it to the devil? From the looks of it, that seems to be the perception in the shattered market of late.-read more-
The wine opens with huge jammy dark elderberry and black pepper. It has earth and brambles, giving it underlying depth and keeping it from qualifying as a "fruit bomb," but just barely. Licorice is more pronounced on the palate than-read more-
BC is home to five official wine-growing regions or DVAs (designated viticultural areas): Okanagan Valley, Similkameen Valley, Fraser Valley, Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands. Its most established and arguably most important DVA, the Okanagan, runs long and narrow from the Canada/U.S.-read more-