Marietta Cellars Red Blend Alexander Valley 2006

Member Review by Chris Carpita:

This wine has a pretty solid, complex nose of damp cedar and pepper, and loses it on the mouth for excess sugar and short-livedness. I would give the nose a 4 and the mouth a 2.5-3.

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Winery: Marietta Wine Cellars

Color: Red

Variety: Zinfandel Petite Syrah; Carignan

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Marietta Wine Cellars:

Marietta Cellars is located just outside the little town of Geyserville in one of California’s premier wine growing regions, Sonoma County. Owner and winemaker Chris Bilbro initially founded Marietta Cellars in 1978 in a rented cow barn in the Dry Creek Valley. The wines of Marietta Cellars are a personification of Chris Bilbro, his outlook on life, and general lifestyle. No wine is complete on its own; pleasurable pursuits such as cooking, fishing, hunting, gardening, and entertaining add balance to wine, as they do to life. To this day, no wine gets bottled without Chris’s approval and no vineyard row goes more than a week without Chris riding his ATV through it. Read less

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Chris Carpita

5,533

Vintage: NV 05/20/2008

This wine has a pretty solid, complex nose of damp cedar and pepper, and loses it on the mouth for excess sugar and short-livedness. I would give the nose a 4 and the mouth a 2.5-3.

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rar8888

1,286

Vintage: NV 04/21/2010

Bright red fruit and baking spice. Tasted at Geneva wine tasting 4/18/2010.

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Philip James

12,553

Vintage: NV 05/21/2008

Hot ethanolic nose assaults the senses, behind that theres a lot of licorice. In the mouth its better, but its a pretty violent wine with some volatile acidity. I felt tannins and cherries before i gave up and felt the licorice finish.

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BCoyle

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Vintage: NV 08/19/2008

This is a great classic wine!! Full bodied and great nose, some might be put off by a cedar "musty" smell but I think it adds great charater. I always have this wine on the rack or in the cellar. A must have.

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