Featured Wines - Sept 2002

Born of some of the best dry farmed, organic grapes around, the 1999 Sonoma Creek Chardonnay lives up to its pedigree. Clean, fresh scents of pear, apple, tropical fruit, and new oak gush from the glass. In the mouth, this delicious Chardonnay coats the palate with a round, full flavor that combines pear, pineapple, and hints of citrus. On the finish, toasty oak, the savory gift of barrel fermentation sur lie (on the skins), pairs with fresh citr...

Sporting a brilliant cherry-red robe, the 2001 Cavalchina Bardolino is the picture of style, elegance, and vivacity in a glass. Aromas of cherry, marzipan and almond extract make for a most appealing olfactory profile. Warm round flavors, married to youthful exuberance (now doesn't that sound sensual) render the Cavalchina Bardolino the purest expression of the Corvina, Rondinella, and Molinara grapes we have ever tasted from this DOC. Although t...

Deep garnet in color, with glints of ruby and subtle, complex earth tones that are reminiscent of classified Bordeaux, the 2000 Guelbenzu Azul fashions Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Tempranillo into an artful blend that is nothing short of masterful. The sensual scent of Cabernet dominates the nose, revealing well-endowed fruit, redolent with blackberry, plum, current, cinnamon, coffee and other pungent aromas that beguile the senses. In additi...

The knockout nose of fresh citrus, spring flowers, mineral and stone, which wafts from the 2001 Martinsancho Verdejo, is nothing short of stupendous, but then again everything about this wine is outstanding. From the Martinsancho's brilliant golden, green-tinged robe to the purest, longest, most natural tasting finish we have encountered in years, the 2001 Martinsancho Verdejo is indeed unique and nothing short of remarkable. Aromatic, delicious,...