Featured Wines - June 2004

A medium bodied, flavor packed wine, the 2003 Macaw Creek Grenache Shiraz exhibits a wonderful display of aromatic fireworks, and that's only the olfactory prelude. Black cherry, ripe plum, pepper and spice caress the nose, while elegant soft, cherry-berry flavors define this wine's broad mid palate. Easy drinking, but chock full of flavor and structure, it is truly a shame to consume the 2003 Macaw Creek so young because a healthy dollop of Malb...

Light lovely and altogether tantalizing, it ought to be a sin to drink the 2003 Saracco Moscato d'Asti. Perhaps, that's why it's so hard to put this wine down; it's forbidden fruit, and before you know it the bottle is empty and you're looking for another bottle…. or two. Moscato d'Asti is typically light, effervescent, low in alcohol, and long on flavor, but the Saracco is more than the usual pleasant dose of lush Moscato one comes to expect fro...

The 2002 Charles Krug Napa Valley Chardonnay is a big boned, old-fashioned Napa Valley Chardonnay. It sports a ton of varietal flavors that are then etched with butter and plenty of toasty vanilla oak. The 2002 Napa Valley Chardonnay, like all Krug offerings, is not for wimps. There is both flesh and bone in this powerful Chardonnay, and plenty of alcohol, too. Nevertheless, the wine remains well balanced and never appears clumsy; it finishes wit...

A classic Spanish red, the 1999 Dehesa La Granja is deeply colored, full-bodied and highly polished. Made from 100% Tempranillo grapes, the Dehesa La Granja was aged two years in new American oak barrels and then bottled unfiltered. Consequently, the wine is highly extracted, intense on the palate, and redolent with the aroma of sandalwood, spice and crushed black fruits. Each sip reveals another nuance of flavor and extended breathing time only ...