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Abeja |
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Columbia Valley |
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Cabernet Sauvignon |
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2006 |
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Acinum |
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Della
Valpolicella Classico
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Amarone |
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1990 |
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Albert Morot |
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Beaune Bressandes |
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Beaune |
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Burgundy |
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1992 |
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AltaMura |
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Napa
Valley |
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Cabernet
Sauvignon |
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1999 |
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Amisfield |
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New Zealand |
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Central Otaga |
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Pinot
Noir |
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2006 |
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Anakena |
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Chile |
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Limari
Valley |
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Late
Harvest - Single Vineyard Bottling |
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75%
Alexandria 25% Muscat |
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2006 |
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Anakota |
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Sonoma County |
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Knights Valley |
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Helena Dakota
Vineyard |
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Cabernet Sauvignon |
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2006 |
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Anakota |
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Sonoma County |
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Knights Valley |
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Helena Montana
Vineyard |
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Cabernet Sauvignon |
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2007 |
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| Domaine de
La Ancienne Cure |
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Cuvee
Abbaye |
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Monbazillac |
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1990 |
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Archery Summit |
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Oregon |
Wine Spectator rating 92 points:
"Plush, with lovely currant, plum and spice flavors that ride
elegantly over a beautifully round, open frame, lingering
impressively on the refined finish. Drink now through 2012.
290 cases made." (HS)
RM Journal -
Nov 22, 2005 |
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Premier
Cuvee |
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Pinot
Noir |
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2002, 2001 |
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Allegrini |
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Amarone di
Valpolicella |
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Classico |
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1999, 1998 |
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Andrew Will |
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Sorella |
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Columbia Valley |
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Red
Wine |
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2001 |
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Sept 15, 2004 |
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The Wine Advocate
- Entirely produced from Champoux Vineyard,
the core of the 2001 Sorella is from a 29 year-old block of
Cabernet Sauvignon (68%) with the balance being Cabernet
Franc (15%), Merlot (10%), and Petit Verdot (7%). Certainly
Camarda’s most refined 2001, it bursts from the glass
revealing a myriad of floral red fruit scents. Cherries,
raspberries, cassis, spices, and blackberries vie for the
taster’s attention in its intricately-laced character.
Medium-bodied and pure, it doesn’t have quite the weight or
power of either the Ciel du Cheval Vineyard or Champoux
Vineyard 2001s, yet is exquisitely detailed, focused, and
exhibits the same extended, wonderfully ripe finish found in
all of Camarda’s glorious 2001s. Bravo! Drink 2007-2017 Wine
Advocate #154 (Aug 2004) Score: 93. —Pierre Rovani,
August 2004. |
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Anderson Conn Valley Vineyards |
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Right Bank Cuvee |
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Napa Valley |
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Red
Wine |
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2003 -
The Wine Advocate
The Right Bank proprietary offering is generally a blend of
60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc (similar to modern day
blends of the famed St.-Emilion, Cheval Blanc). It is an
enticing effort with good weight, great aromatics, and a
wonderful texture. The 2003 Right Bank displays a
distinctive menthol character interwoven with blackberries,
licorice, smoke, and flowers. Full-bodied, opulent, and
moderately tannic, with broad, savory flavors, it should age
nicely for 15 or more years. Score: 93. —Robert
Parker, December 2006. |
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2004 -
94 Points Wine Advocate - The Right
Bank proprietary offering is generally a blend of 60% Merlot
and 40% Cabernet Franc (similar to modern day blends of the
famed St.-Emilion, Cheval Blanc). It is an enticing effort
with good weight, great aromatics, and a wonderful texture.
The saturated purple-colored 2004 Right Bank offers up sweet
scents of espresso roast, white chocolate, plums, black
currants, smoke, and flowers. A beautiful texture, medium to
full body, and good glycerin covering the wine’s skeleton
suggest it will drink well for 10-15 years. - 60% Merlot,
40% Cabernet Franc - Winemaker's notes - Ripe blackberries,
some cedar and licorice. Opulent, full-bodied, good mouth
feel and long f inish. Should peak in 6-11 years. |
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Prologue |
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2006
-
July 13, 2008 |
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| Domaine
des Aphillanthes |
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Cote du
Rhone Villages |
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Cuvee des Galets |
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2001 -
Robt Parker 91 points - "Boasts a dense inky/purple
color in addition to sumptuous aromas of freshly ground
pepper, blackberry liqueur, and lavender. Ripe, full-bodied,
sweet, rich flavors caress the palate with no hard edges."
91 pts. Robert Parker (#283234)
Jan 11, 2006 - RM 90 - Medium bodied - predominant black
pepper with blackberry and mineral accents. |
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| d'Arenberg
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McLaren
Vale |
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The Dead Arm
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Shiraz |
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2008 |
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2006 |
-
November 1, 2008 |
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2004 |
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2003 |
RP Review -
‘One of this estate’s flagship wines, the 2003 The Dead Arm
Shiraz appears to be better than the 2002. A deeper, richer,
fuller-bodied offering that spent time in equal parts French
and American oak, it possesses an opaque purple colour,
great intensity, and a fabulously sweet nose of
blackberries, cassis, asphalt, earth, and oak. Powerful,
super-concentrated, and obviously fashioned from low yields
and old vines, this is classic McLaren Vale old vine Shiraz
that should age nicely for 15+ years.’ Rating 95 -
RM Journal Jan 7, 2005 |
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2002 |
Aug 7, 2004,
Jan 21, 2006
RP Review - The 2002 The Dead Arm Shiraz was
a challenge to effectively analyze. After the magnificent
2001, it comes across as lighter-styled, more elegant, but
also closed and restrained. Several hours of aeration were
beneficial, but this cuvee seems to be playing it close to
the vest. However, there is power beneath the tannic
structure. It has noble breeding, but appears to be totally
shut down at present. Anticipated maturity: 2009 – 2020.
Rating 92+
RM Journal -
The Wine Spectator
Rich, complex, but not at all heavy-handed, a plush, heady
mouthful of black cherry, blackberry, menthol and a wee
touch of forest mushroom, all mingling in a rich-textured
finish that lasts and lasts. Drink now through 2020. 500
cases imported. Score: 92. —Harvey Steiman, December
31, 2004.
The Wine Enthusiast
Impresses the hell out of you on the first look—it offers
controlled, pretty plum and berry fruit on the palate, with
black pepper, cassis and graham cracker aromas. Overexamine
it, though, and you start to find things that you wish were
different (for me, it wants more intensity midpalate), but
that doesn't mean that this isn't delicious. Why not just
sit back and enjoy the mocha-laden finish, and leave
analysis to another day? Score: 91. —Daryna Tobey,
March 01, 2005. |
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2001 |
RP Review - Readers should be on the look
out for the 2001 The Dead Arm Shiraz, one of the greatest
examples of this cuvee. Its dense black/purple colour is
accompanied by celestial aromas of melted licorice,
graphite, blackberries, cassis, incense, anise and toasty
oak. Fabulously concentrated, with great purity, an
unctuous, viscous texture, and an amazingly long, 60-second
plus finish, this fabulous baby will need 5-6 years of
cellaring, and should drink well over the following 20-25
years. Rating 98+ |
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2000 |
RP Rating -
This estate’s most renowned offering is
their old vine (90+ years) Shiraz called The Dead Arm. The
unfined/unfiltered 2000 The Dead Arm Shiraz is one of South
Australia’s finest wines of the vintage. A perfume of
grilled steak intermixed with blackberries, new saddle
leather, earth, pepper and melted licorice rises from this
awesome red. With great power, richness, and no hard edges,
it is still young and primary, but should hit its peak in
3-7 years, and last for two decades or more. Rating 94. |
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1999 |
RP Rating - The unfined/unfiltered 1999 The
Dead Arm Shiraz (2,000 cases) was aged in 100% new oak, of
which 70% was American and 30% French. It is about as
natural and unmanipulated a product of the vineyard as one
can find. Fullbodied and awesomely rich, notes of black
pepper, licorice, and blackberry as well as cherry liqueur
cascade over the palate with enormous concentration and
intensity, high tannin, and a structured, muscular style.
Give it 3-4 years of cellaring, and consume it over the
following 2-3 decades. It is a timeless museum piece made in
a style that can only be produced in Barossa or McLaren
Vale. 96 pts. -
RM Journal -
Dec 23, 2003 |
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1998 |
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1997 |
Dec 29, 2004 |
| |
1996 |
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1995 |
WS 92
- 'Firm, chewy, packed with blackberry and anise flavors,
although the oak character and tannin clamp down a bit on
the finish. Echoes tobacco and berry.'
CellarTracker:91.2 'Score based on 11 tasting
notes from 5 reviewers'
RP 91 - 'It
is a sexy, flashy, flamboyant Shiraz that is short on
restraint, but big on screaming fruit. Viscous, thick, and
rich, with layers of flavor, low acidity, and sexy new oak.'
Sept 1, 1999,
May 20, 2005 |
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1994 |
| |
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| d'Arenberg
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| |
Barossa
Valley |
| |
Coppermine
Road |
| |
Cabernet
Sauvignon |
| |
2001 |
93 points The Wine Advocate McLaren Vale, South Australia,
Australia Cabernet Sauvignon Wine Advocate #148 (Aug 2003) One
of the finest Cabernet Sauvignons produced in South Australia
is d’Arenberg’s Coppermine Road. The colossal 2001 The
Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits an opaque purple
color in addition to a gorgeous perfume of lead pencil
shavings intermixed with blackberry and cassis fruit, vanilla,
Asian spices, and white flowers. Still primary and young, with
great intensity as well as tremendous upside potential, it
requires 5-6 more years of aging, after which it will last for
two decades. |
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2000 |
Steve Tanzer -
88 - Full, lightly browning red. Earth, chocolate and cedar
aromas beneath dusty, slightly leafy notes of small dark
berries and dark olive. Ripe and juicy, with a dark, brooding
palate of earthy plum and dark berries over a sinewy spine of
firm, somewhat astringent tannins and cedary, chocolatey oak.
Needs some cellaring. |
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|
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|
Arns |
| |
Napa Valley |
| |
Cabernet
Sauvignon |
| |
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
2007 |
| |
2002 |
| |
2000 |
| |
1998
-
Sept 28, 2002 |
| |
1996 -
WS92 |
| |
Syrah |
|
2008 |
|
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|
|
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|
Chateau L'Arrosee |
| |
Bordeaux |
| |
St.
Emilion Grand Cru |
| |
2000 |
| |
|
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|
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|
Arrowood |
| |
|
| |
Cabernet Sauvignon |
| |
2008 |
| |
2007 |
| |
2004 |
| |
2002
-
March 29, 2008 |
| |
2000 |
| |
1998
-
June 25, 2003,
Sept 28, 2002,
November 21, 2008 |
| |
1996 |
| |
1995 |
| |
1991 -
Sept 21, 2002,
February 14, 2009 |
| |
Merlot 1999
-
July 8, 2004 |
|
|
|
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|
Atalon |
| |
Napa Valley |
| |
Merlot |
| |
2003 |
| |
|
|
|
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|
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|
Atlas Peak |
| |
Napa Valley |
| |
Cabernet
Sauvignon |
| |
2004 |
| |
2003 |
| |
|
|
 |
| Amarone
della Valpolicella |
| |
Classico
DOC |
| |
Campo San
Paolo |
| |
1997 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Dan Aykroyd |
| |
Discovery
Series |
| |
Sonoma
County |
| |
Cabernet
Sauvignon |
| |
2007 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
Azelia |
| |
Barolo |
| |
San
Rocco |
| |
2001 |
| |
Marghera |
| |
2005 |
| |
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