Featured Wines - December 2002

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Chapel Hill Unwooded Chardonnay 2001
River Heights California Merlot 2001
Chateau Bonnet Entre-Deux-Mers 2001
Chapel Hill McLaren Vale Shiraz 1999

Chapel Hill Unwooded Chardonnay 2001

Country: Australia
Wine Vintage: 2001

Au naturalunadorned Chardonnaythe real thing, constitutes some of the tasting panel's descriptions of the 2001 Chapel Hill Unwooded Chardonnay. Although there is hardly another New World producer of Chardonnay that doesn't use copious quantities of oak to augment or adulterate the natural flavor of Chardonnay, unwooded Chardonnays are now in vogue in Australia. Created in 1991 by Pam Dunsford as a designer white for the winery's corporate owners,...

River Heights California Merlot 2001

Country: United States
Wine Vintage: 2001

The 2001 River Heights Merlot has been dubbed the great wine with the non-descript label by the tasting panel. Perhaps, we have been a little easy on the label. We have never believed that one could or should drink a label or a price tag, but if there were ever a case for the preceding adage it is the River Height Merlot. Certainly, the wine's somewhat homely label doesn't prepare the taster for the wonderfully ripe, pure blackberry scents and fl...

Chateau Bonnet Entre-Deux-Mers 2001

Country: France
Wine Vintage: 2001

A bright, energetic wine, not unlike the man who makes it, the 2001 Chateau Bonnet Entre-Deux-Mers exhibits a staggering array of sensual pleasure in its aromatic profile. Herb, gooseberry, lime and a vibrant minerality caress the nose. An artful blend of Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, and Muscadelle (an other indigenous Bordeaux grape that should not be confused with Muscat or Moscatel), the Chateau Bonnet possesses the finest attributes of each var...

Chapel Hill McLaren Vale Shiraz 1999

Country: Australia
Wine Vintage: 1999

One of the most consistently endowed wines from vintage to vintage, the 1999 Chapel Hill McLaren Vale Shiraz is a deep purple potion with the scent of blackberry, kirsch, and plum. Rich and long in the mouth, this Shiraz offers up copious quantities of blackberry, cassis, and spice, along with soft, ripe tannins. Emanating from a twenty-month stay in French and American oak barrels, a cachet of vanilla spice permeates the wine's long, rich, immen...

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Featured Wines - December 2002

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