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Preston of Dry Creek Valley Red Blend Dry Creek Valley L. Preston L.P. Red 2005

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A farmer's name is his trademark and promise, stenciled on his fruit boxes, on his barrels, on his equipment. It's mi...

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Blackberry and cherry fruit aromas and flavors, with a nice spicy note in the finish and some firm grip in the mid-palate. Rhone blend, but not the... Read more

Thick, bold, delicious but very young. Needs a few more years. Read more

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Snooth User: drdebs
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3.50 5
11/19/2007

Blackberry and cherry fruit aromas and flavors, with a nice spicy note in the finish and some firm grip in the mid-palate. Rhone blend, but not the best QPR.

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Snooth User: edink
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Thick, bold, delicious but very young. Needs a few more years.

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Winemaker's Notes:

A farmer's name is his trademark and promise, stenciled on his fruit boxes, on his barrels, on his equipment. It's mine, it says, it works and it's good. "L. Preston" is Lou Preston's stencil and his trademark and his promise; it's a synthesis of the best of the Prestons' vineyards. Preston wines have always featured blending as a creative expression. A salute to the field blends of earlier times, blending also achieves balance and breadth of flavor by the combination of different estate-grown grapes from a singular terroir. L.Preston is a Rhône-style blend: Syrah, Mourvèdre, Cinsault; it has the grapes and the character to slip unobtrusively onto a Bandol table or into a Provençal carafe. But it is also a typical Dry Creek wine. Shiraz, Mataro, Malvoisie; the same grapes with different names, it's at home here, too. Some might call this wine classic Californian, following the pre-1970s definition of a varietal wine. We think of L.Preston as fusion France/Sonoma, a metaphoric confluence of the Rhône River and Dry Creek. You might call it classic con-fusion, but at least you know it's Lou's wine, it works and it's good. 55% Syrah, 25% Cinsault, 10% Mourvedre, 10% Carignane Downloadable Tech Sheets: http://www.prestonvineyards.com/site/pressroom/focus_wines/main.html

A farmer's name is his trademark and promise, stenciled on his fruit boxes, on his barrels, on his equipment. It's mine, it says, it works and it's good. "L. Preston" is Lou Preston's stencil and his trademark and his promise; it's a synthesis of the best of the Prestons' vineyards. Preston wines have always featured blending as a creative expression. A salute to the field blends of earlier times, blending also achieves balance and breadth of flavor by the combination of different estate-grown grapes from a singular terroir. L.Preston is a Rhône-style blend: Syrah, Mourvèdre, Cinsault; it has the grapes and the character to slip unobtrusively onto a Bandol table or into a Provençal carafe. But it is also a typical Dry Creek wine. Shiraz, Mataro, Malvoisie; the same grapes with different names, it's at home here, too. Some might call this wine classic Californian, following the pre-1970s definition of a varietal wine. We think of L.Preston as fusion France/Sonoma, a metaphoric confluence of the Rhône River and Dry Creek. You might call it classic con-fusion, but at least you know it's Lou's wine, it works and it's good. 55% Syrah, 25% Cinsault, 10% Mourvedre, 10% Carignane Downloadable Tech Sheets: http://www.prestonvineyards.com/site/pressroom/focus_wines/main.html

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