Trees

The winemaker from Stephen Vincent, Robert Goyette and formerly of La Crema. This nearly opaque red. Nice blackberry and cassis or currant. Not as powerful in the palate as it is to the nose. Predominant flavors are:...

Single vineyard- "French Camp" in Paso Robles. The wines are picked very ripe, fairly late into the season. Unfined and unfiltered. Black and green olive profile- Smells wild, brambly with a slight hint of barnyard (like...

I had my first bottle March 2008 and have had 2 since, most recently October 2009. I really like this wine. It has throw a lot of sediment and needs decanting but this is now a beautiful mature Shiraz showing an...

Juicy ripe cherry aromas front for a rustic palate full of tar and tree bark and earth. Finishes clean, even though there's an earthy bite.

Nice dark color. Tight nose but has some cherry, oak, cedar. Nice round mouthfeel, soft tannins, with good cherry flavors. No fakeness in this wine for the price point. Great pizza wine.

Big and dense smelling with sweet balsamic notes, an underlay of baking spice and creamy, slightly medicinal black cherry fruit spread of toast and cedar. This is quite sharp on entry with bags of acid that cuts the...

Really loved this wine. Almost equal parts of Merlot, Cab Franc, and Cab Sauv, it was a delight to drink. Plush fruit of cherry, raspberry, and blackberry, but lovely structure and medium-firm tannins held up to a...

so I pull a 3 bone prime rib out of the oven at around 2pm on a sunny November weekday afternoon. don't know why I decided to make it, seemed like the right thing to do at the time. the roast was, in a word... well, two...