Barboursville Vineyards Cabernet Franc Orange County Reserve (2008)
| Winery: | Barboursville Vineyards |
| Region: | USA » Virginia » Central Region » Orange County |
| Varietal: | Cabernet Franc |
| Type: | Table Wines |
Barboursville Vineyards
Defying the unanimous advice of government officials, land owners, and bankers to plant tobacco at Barboursville, Gianni Zonin -- 6th generation heir to a family wine enterprise active since 1821 in the Veneto -- acquired this plantation in 1976 with the seemingly ridiculous expectation of creating a vineyard. Jefferson had attempted this, persistently into the 19th Century at Monticello, always failing to achieve a single harvest.
In 2006, on the occasion of celebrating the winery’s 30th anniversary as “setting the standard” for a region now populated by more than 100 vineyards, Gianni and Silvana Zonin opened a new wine museum at Barboursville, looking back upon centuries of Italian viticulture, and a barrel aging room for Octagon, where the history of their creation of the estate that gave birth to a new wine region is laid out upon the walls in illustrated chapters, culminating in the validation of Octagon, itself, as the crowning achievement of Virginia viticulture.
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This gets extra points because it's a killer wine from Virginia. Fresh berries on the nose. Solid integrated oak with great pepper and dusty dry tannins. Great with vegetable pizza.
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i think that if you took a bunch of fig newtons and liquified them, the flavor on this would be similar. This a GOOD thing. I paired this with Gorton's Potato Crunch Fish Filets and it was a great combo. The filets were sinfully delicious as well. Read More
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Terrific pizza wine. Nice dry earth, some kirsch. Read More
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Barboursville Vineyards Red Bordeaux Blend Monticello Octagon 2005
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Superb wine, superbly vinified and balanced, with lots of complexity. A bit closed - intrinsically difficult to get into needs longer breathing time, and maybe even decanting.Deeply dark maroon/cherry colour. Nose of red berry/currant not overwhelmed by oak.Palate of red currant, coffee, tobacco, hints of liquorice and menthol a dark flavour... Read More
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