3CV/ Cimarone Estate Wines 2010 Bank ALC: 14.5% Price: $24 Media Sample Bottle Notes: “3CV BANK is our best known wine – you’ll find it in many fine restaurants by the glass. We specialize in Bordeaux varietals, and BANK contains pretty well all those that our vineyard produces: Cabernet Franc (26%), Cabernet Sauvignon (52%), Petit Verdot (3%), Malbec [...]
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3CV/Cimarone Estate Wines 2010 Bank
Posted in Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Red Blend on April 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
3CV/Cimarone Estate Wines 2010 Cilla’s Blend
Posted in Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Petit Verdot, Red Blend, Syrah on April 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
3CV/ Cimarone Estate Wines 2010 Cilla’s Blend ALC: 14.5% Price: $17.99 Media Sample Bottle Notes: “Cilla’s Blend is our chic designer wine and is made from exceptional estate grown, hillside hand-sorted fruit. Fermentation is performed in open-top barriques using classic manual punch-down. The wine is then brought up for 20 months in a combination [...]
Frenchman’s Gulch 2008 Ketchum Cuvée
Posted in Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot on January 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Frenchman’s Gulch Winery 2008 Ketchum Cuvée ALC: 14.5% Price: $18 Media Sample Our Tasting Notes: I will start off by saying that the beautiful and elegant wax seal was a great first impression. It’s not often that you come across a bottle under $20 that has a nice wax closure. A nice surprise! This blend [...]
Terra Nativa Vineyards 2009 Sunset Red Premium Blend
Posted in Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot on November 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Terra Nativa Vineyards 2009 Sunset Red Premium Blend ALC: 13.5% Price: $13.75 Media Sample Bottle Notes: ”The distinctive estate wines of Terra Nativa Vineyards are produced in the Southwest region of Idaho. Our grapes are grown with sustainable management practices at the 3,100 food elevation of The city of Boise Foothills. The native clay soils [...]
Waterbrook 2010 Mélange Noir
Posted in Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot, Mourvedre, Petit Verdot, Red Blend, Syrah on November 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Waterbrook 2010 Mélange Noir ALC: 13.5% Price: $15 Media Sample Bottle Notes: Mélange (mey-lahnzh, -lahnj), n. [French] a mixture or blend “Waterbrook Winery, one of Walla Walla’s founding wineries, draws its name from the Nez Perce Indian dialect for Walla Walla, meaning ‘Running Water.’ Each year, our Mélange Noir is the first wine that our winemaker John [...]
2010 Canyon Wind Cellars Cabernet Franc
Posted in Cabernet Franc, Top Wines on June 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Canyon Wind Cellars 2010 Cabernet Franc ALC: 14.09 % Price: $18.95 Received from Canyon Wind Cellars for review Bottle Notes: “Planted in 1991, Canyon Wind Cellars is a family-owned, estate winery named for the mountain breezes and canyon winds that nurture the fruit on our high altitude vineyard. With the assistance of renowned Napa winemaker, [...]
2009 Canyon Wind 47-Ten
Posted in Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Red Blend, Syrah, Tempranillo on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Canyon Wind 2009 47-Ten ALC: 13.8% Price: $12.95 Received from Canyon Wind Cellars for review Bottle Notes: “Wine with an altitude! Grown at 4710 feet above sea level, our vines produce grapes with intense colors and flavors. With our cobblestone soils and desert climate, we are able to produce exceptional wines, wines with attitude at [...]
2009 3CV BANK Red Blend
Posted in Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Red Blend, Syrah on January 11, 2012 | 3 Comments »
3CV – Three Creek Vineyard 2009 BANK Red Blend ALC: 14.5% Price: $19.99 Received from Cimarone Estate Wines for review Bottle Notes: “BANK is our premium Estate Blend, comprised of 35% Cabernet Franc, 17% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 17% Petit Verdot, 9% Syrah and 13% Malbec. Our exquisite estate Syrah is the cornerstone of the [...]
